Famous Women

Famous Women PDF

Author: Giovanni Boccaccio

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780674011304

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Giovanni Boccaccio devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is this text, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted to women.

Almost Famous Women

Almost Famous Women PDF

Author: Megan Mayhew Bergman

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-01-06

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1476786569

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Nearly every story in this collection is based on a woman who attained some celebrity, from Lord Byron's illegitimate daughter, Allegra, to Oscar Wilde's troubled niece, Dolly.