Obit: Barbara Mertz (Elizabeth Peters)

From UT San Diego : Barbara Mertz, an erstwhile Egyptologist better known to millions of readers as Barbara Michaels or Elizabeth Peters, th...

Three Women & Hadassah

From Naperville Sun : A hundred years ago, New Yorker Henrietta Szold traveled to Palestine and saw they had no access to medical care. She ...

Abandoned Women

From the Daily Record : THEY are the women history has chosen to forget – the 2500 Scots banished to Tasmania  for the pettiest of crimes. T...

Review - Calling Invisible Women

Review of "Calling Invisible Women" by Ben Steelman at Star News Online : Ever since H.G. Wells' 1897 novel, the notion of inv...

Émilie du Châtelet

From the Daily Maverick : Émilie du Châtelet could possibly be one of the greatest female intellectuals, mathematicians and thinkers in hist...

Author & Historian Kate Williams

From the Guardian : Could historian Kate Williams be the next Doctor Who? She can build her own Tardis, after all. Sitting in the Edwardian ...

Dangerous Ambition

Press Release: Born in the early 1890s on opposite sides of the Atlantic, these brilliant and ambitious women, Rebecca West, an English jour...

Author - Alice Hoffman

From the Alice Hoffman website: "Alice Hoffman was born in New York City on March 16, 1952 and grew up on Long Island. After graduatin...

Lady Elizabeth Dacre's Erotic Poem

From Huffington Post : A crude love poem written almost 450 years ago by a Roman Catholic woman and sent to a Protestant scholar who served ...

The Discovery of Jeanne Baret

In 1766, Jeanne Baret, the daughter of illiterate French peasants, disguised herself as a teenage boy in order to join the first French expe...

Julia Taft - Humanitarian & Notable Women

I received a review copy of Ann Blackman's " Off To Save The World:   How Julia Taft Made a Difference " and am certainly glad...

Beatrix Potter Versus Winston Churchill

From the Telegraph : Children's author Beatrix Potter has finally won a 100-year-long battle against a noisy sea plane - winning sweet r...

Deare Sister - Letters of Historical Women

Deare Sister - a  work of fiction consisting of letters that might have been written by such historical women as Lady Godiva,  Milton ’s da...

Wendy & The Lost Boys

From the Washington Post: Whatever flaws Lola Wasserstein had as a mother, she produced more than her share of extraordinary offspring. Her ...

Christine Cole Catley

From the New Zealand Herald : I was told she was a publisher and writer, but it would have been more accurate to say she was a general force...

Notorious Australian Women

From the Sydney Morning Herald : Australians have made heroes of bushranger Ned Kelly, mutineer Fletcher Christian and cricketer Shane Warne...

First Ladies of Rome

From The Independent : As Anneliese Freisenbruch admits in this excellent history, most of the Ancient Roman women discussed in her book ...

A Quiet Revolution

Review by Abbas Jaffer is Associate Editor of Altmuslimah : The question of what Muslim women’s veiling means in America is a highly politic...

Ten Most Powerful Women Authors

From Forbes : Collectively, these women hold readers captivated with stories of fantastical worlds, suspense and drama, insights into the co...

Women of the Crusade of 1101

Reprinted with the kind permission of author extraordinare Nan Hawthorne : Women of the Crusade of 1101 - Backdrop to Beloved Pilgrim Resear...