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The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu
Scientist and Feminist
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781399000482
Pub Date: 2025-04-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
288 Pages
300 years ago, in April 1721, a smallpox epidemic was raging in England. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu knew that she could save her 3-year-old daughter using the process of inoculation. She had witnessed this at first hand in Turkey, while she was living there as the wife of the British ambassador.
Lady Constance Lytton
Prison Reformer and Suffragette
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781526775030
Pub Date: 2024-12-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
184 Pages
“Prisons, as you know, have been my hobby” wrote the prominent suffragette Lady Constance Bulwer-Lytton. An influential British activist as well as a writer, speaker and campaigner for votes for...
‘The Angel of Kings Cross’
The Life and Times of Dr Fanny Reading
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 9781922952509
Pub Date: 2024-09-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Arden
384 Pages
Dr. Fanny Reading arrived in Australia in 1889 as a migrant child and felt the loneliness of the newcomer. A brilliant musician and compassionate medical doctor, she created the National Council of...
Lady Charlotte Guest
The Exceptional Life of a Female Industrialist
Price: $38.95
ISBN: 9781526799661
Pub Date: 2024-08-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
224 Pages
When impoverished aristocrat Lady Charlotte Bertie married wealthy Welsh ironmaster John Guest of Dowlais in 1833, her relatives looked on with dismay. Yet despite their vast difference of background...
Believe Me
The True Story of How a Trafficked Teen and Her Advocate Changed the Justice System and Found True Freedom
Price: $22.99
ISBN: 9781955811620
Pub Date: 2024-07-22
Format: Paperback
Imprint: WorldChangers Media
The True Story of How a Trafficked Teen and Her Advocate Changed the Justice System and Found True Freedom.When Andrea Powell, a longtime advocate for victims of sexual exploitation, received a letter...
Solo2Darwin
In the Footsteps of Amy Johnson
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781911714040
Pub Date: 2024-06-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Grub Street Publishing
192 Pages
While learning to fly, Amanda Harrison discovered a beautiful vintage Tiger Moth. After researching the amazing pioneers who flew this fragile aircraft, a spark was ignited, and Amanda dreamed of emulating...
Following Nellie Bly
Her Record-Breaking Race Around the World
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781399000529
Pub Date: 2024-05-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
184 Pages
Intrepid journalist Nellie Bly raced through a ‘man’s world’ — alone and literally with just the clothes on her back — to beat the fictional record set by Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days. She won the race on 25 January 1890, covering 21,740 miles by ocean liner and train in 72 days, and became a global celebrity.
She Spied for Freedom
Mary Richards, A Black Civil War Agent
Price: $37.95
ISBN: 9781781559192
Pub Date: 2024-05-31
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Fonthill Media
168 Pages
During the American Civil War, an educated Black woman posed as an illiterate slave in the home of the rebel President Jefferson Davis. Spying on the war councils of Davis and his advisers, she risked...
The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu
Scientist and Feminist
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781399000482
Pub Date: 2025-04-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
288 Pages
Lady Constance Lytton
Prison Reformer and Suffragette
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781526775030
Pub Date: 2024-12-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
184 Pages
‘The Angel of Kings Cross’
The Life and Times of Dr Fanny Reading
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 9781922952509
Pub Date: 2024-09-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Arden
384 Pages
Lady Charlotte Guest
The Exceptional Life of a Female Industrialist
Price: $38.95
ISBN: 9781526799661
Pub Date: 2024-08-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
224 Pages
Believe Me
The True Story of How a Trafficked Teen and Her Advocate Changed the Justice System and Found True Freedom
Price: $22.99
ISBN: 9781955811620
Pub Date: 2024-07-22
Format: Paperback
Imprint: WorldChangers Media
Solo2Darwin
In the Footsteps of Amy Johnson
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781911714040
Pub Date: 2024-06-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Grub Street Publishing
192 Pages
Following Nellie Bly
Her Record-Breaking Race Around the World
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781399000529
Pub Date: 2024-05-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
184 Pages
She Spied for Freedom
Mary Richards, A Black Civil War Agent
Price: $37.95
ISBN: 9781781559192
Pub Date: 2024-05-31
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Fonthill Media
168 Pages