Biographies of Significant Historical Women
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Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
by:
Alison Weir
3.77 avg rating — 7,831 ratings 17. 
Children of England: The Heirs of King Henry VIII 1547-1558
by:
Alison Weir
4.01 avg rating — 15,352 ratings 
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Sister Queens: The Noble, Tragic Lives of Katherine of Aragon and Juana, Queen of Castile
by:
Julia Fox
3.81 avg rating — 3,483 ratings 20. 
Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
by:
Nancy Goldstone
3.89 avg rating — 4,568 ratings 21. 
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An Uncommon Woman - The Empress Frederick: Daughter of Queen Victoria, Wife of the Crown Prince of Prussia, Mother of Kaiser Wilhelm
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Hannah Pakula
4.18 avg rating — 1,115 ratings 
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
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Antonia Fraser
3.87 avg rating — 7,980 ratings 
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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
by:
Caroline Weber
4.17 avg rating — 3,562 ratings 
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Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America
by:
Ellen Chesler
3.72 avg rating — 169 ratings 
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Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa, and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832
by:
Stella Tillyard
4.10 avg rating — 1,958 ratings 38. 
Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, Granddaughters of Queen Victoria
by:
Julia P. Gelardi
4.06 avg rating — 2,618 ratings 
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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
by:
Jung Chang
3.91 avg rating — 10,431 ratings 43. 
Sexuality and Its Impact on History: The British Stripped Bare
by:
Hunter S. Jones
4.17 avg rating — 88 ratings 
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Desert Queen: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell: Adventurer, Adviser to Kings, Ally of Lawrence of Arabia
by:
Janet Wallach
3.81 avg rating — 6,039 ratings 
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The Wars of the Roses: Through the Lives of Five Men and Women of the Fifteenth Century
by:
Desmond Seward
3.79 avg rating — 592 ratings 48. 
The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici
by:
Elizabeth Lev
4.07 avg rating — 2,809 ratings 
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See Me Naked: Black Women Defining Pleasure During the Interwar Era
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Tara T. Green
4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
by:
Sarah Bradford
3.72 avg rating — 4,657 ratings 
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The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
by:
Kirstin Downey
4.22 avg rating — 2,437 ratings 59. 
Blood Sisters: The Women Behind The Wars Of The Roses
by:
Sarah Gristwood
3.96 avg rating — 2,229 ratings 
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Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
by:
Veronica Buckley
3.45 avg rating — 502 ratings 
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Eleanor de Montfort: A Rebel Countess in Medieval England really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
by:
Eleanor Herman
3.89 avg rating — 5,178 ratings 70. 
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Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
by:
Eleanor Herman
3.69 avg rating — 8,259 ratings 
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Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford
by:
Julia Fox
3.72 avg rating — 4,235 ratings 
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Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
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Miep Gies
4.30 avg rating — 66,127 ratings 76. 
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women
by:
Kate Moore
4.16 avg rating — 176,374 ratings 
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Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
by:
Charlotte Gordon
4.22 avg rating — 7,199 ratings 
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Prague Winter: A Personal Story of Remembrance and War, 1937-1948 4.03 avg rating — 8,270 ratings
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Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Irin Carmon
4.18 avg rating — 62,999 ratings 
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The Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English 3.93 avg rating — 135 ratings
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The First Queen of England: The Myth of "Bloody Mary"
by:
Linda Porter
4.04 avg rating — 3,411 ratings 
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The Creation of Anne Boleyn: In Search of the Tudors' Most Notorious Queen
by:
Susan Bordo
3.86 avg rating — 3,033 ratings 95. 
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