Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780674011304
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Marlene Wagman-Geller
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2015-03-03
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 1492603074
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Who Said Men Get to Monopolize the Glory? Discover the Little Known Women Who Have Put the World's Alpha Males on the Map. From ancient times to the present, men have gotten most of the good ink. Yet standing just outside the spotlight are the extraordinary, and overlooked, wives and companions who are just as instrumental in shaping the destinies of their famous—and infamous—men. This witty, illuminating book reveals the remarkable stories of forty captivating females, from Constance Lloyd (Mrs. Oscar Wilde) to Carolyn Adams (Mrs. Jerry Garcia), who have stood behind their legendary partners and helped to humanize them, often at the cost of their own careers, reputations, and happiness. Through fame and its attendant ills—alcoholism, infidelity, mental illness, divorce, and even attempted murder—these powerful women quietly propelled their men to the top and changed the course of history. Meet the Untold Half of History, Including: •Alma Reville (Mrs. Alfred Hitchcock) •Elena Diakonova (Mrs. Salvador Dali) •Winifred Madikizela (Mrs. Nelson Mandela) •Ann Charteris (Mrs. Ian Fleming, a.k.a. Mrs. James Bond) •Ruth Alpern (Mrs. Bernie Maddoff) And 35 more!
Author: Susan E. Edgar
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 584
ISBN-13: 9781561569793
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Estefania Wenger
Publisher:
Published: 2017-08-17
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9789386367860
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book gives out short biographies of 100 of the most famous women known in the history of mankind.
Author: Megan Mayhew Bergman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2015-01-06
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1476786569
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Frank Boott Goodrich
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2022-10-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781017996449
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