Women in turn-of-the century's culture (1880-1940)

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Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. Dalloway 3.78 avg rating β€” 341,930 ratings
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A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own 4.22 avg rating β€” 246,423 ratings
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating β€” 377,776 ratings
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Orlando
Orlando 3.87 avg rating β€” 109,437 ratings
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Rebecca
Rebecca 4.25 avg rating β€” 697,740 ratings
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To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse 3.81 avg rating β€” 207,170 ratings
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Cold Comfort Farm
Cold Comfort Farm 3.88 avg rating β€” 53,851 ratings
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Two Serious Ladies
Two Serious Ladies 3.58 avg rating β€” 4,156 ratings
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The Garden Party and Other Stories
The Garden Party and Other Stories 3.80 avg rating β€” 13,136 ratings
10.
Cheri and The Last of Cheri
Cheri and The Last of Cheri
by: Colette
3.89 avg rating β€” 3,717 ratings
11.
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence 3.97 avg rating β€” 189,906 ratings
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Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay 3.91 avg rating β€” 9,507 ratings
13.
The Complete Claudine
The Complete Claudine
by: Colette
4.17 avg rating β€” 1,649 ratings
14.
Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea
by: Jean Rhys
3.59 avg rating β€” 103,270 ratings
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The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth 3.97 avg rating β€” 103,534 ratings
16.
The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf 4.47 avg rating β€” 4,852 ratings
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Kiki's Paris: Artists and Lovers 1900-1930
Kiki's Paris: Artists and Lovers 1900-1930 4.30 avg rating β€” 260 ratings
18.
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties 3.81 avg rating β€” 1,442 ratings
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Nightwood
Nightwood 3.60 avg rating β€” 14,249 ratings
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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter 4.13 avg rating β€” 17,743 ratings
21.
West with the Night
West with the Night 4.15 avg rating β€” 40,230 ratings
22.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 3.54 avg rating β€” 13,200 ratings
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The Pure and the Impure
The Pure and the Impure
by: Colette
3.59 avg rating β€” 2,286 ratings
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Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern
Flapper: A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern 3.84 avg rating β€” 3,433 ratings
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Remarkable Creatures
Remarkable Creatures 3.89 avg rating β€” 54,479 ratings
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Ethan Frome
Ethan Frome 3.45 avg rating β€” 134,931 ratings
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Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life
Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life 4.09 avg rating β€” 770 ratings
28.
Shakespeare and Company
Shakespeare and Company 3.80 avg rating β€” 3,303 ratings
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Passing
Passing 3.92 avg rating β€” 76,693 ratings
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Voyage in the Dark
Voyage in the Dark
by: Jean Rhys
3.78 avg rating β€” 5,880 ratings
31.
Women of the Left Bank
Women of the Left Bank 4.16 avg rating β€” 387 ratings
31.
Testament of Youth
Testament of Youth 4.11 avg rating β€” 12,163 ratings
33.
Zelda
Zelda 3.82 avg rating β€” 10,362 ratings
34.
Garbo: A Biography
Garbo: A Biography 4.02 avg rating β€” 462 ratings
35.
Dust Tracks on a Road
Dust Tracks on a Road 4.11 avg rating β€” 8,197 ratings
36.
Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties
Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation: A History of Literary Paris in the Twenties and Thirties 4.07 avg rating β€” 982 ratings
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Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald 3.86 avg rating β€” 58,101 ratings
38.
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) 4.32 avg rating β€” 1,079,808 ratings
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Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940
Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918-1940 3.59 avg rating β€” 651 ratings
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The Edwardians
The Edwardians 3.81 avg rating β€” 1,867 ratings
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Lulu in Hollywood
Lulu in Hollywood 3.97 avg rating β€” 1,815 ratings
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Wild Heart: A Life: Natalie Clifford Barney and the Decadence of Literary Paris
Wild Heart: A Life: Natalie Clifford Barney and the Decadence of Literary Paris 4.11 avg rating β€” 301 ratings
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Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? 3.98 avg rating β€” 4,160 ratings
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Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters
Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters 3.29 avg rating β€” 2,663 ratings
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Delta of Venus
Delta of Venus 3.61 avg rating β€” 24,713 ratings
46.
Bell of the Desert: A Novel
Bell of the Desert: A Novel
by: Alan Gold
3.99 avg rating β€” 299 ratings
47.
Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation
Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation 3.87 avg rating β€” 1,582 ratings
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Georgette Heyer
Georgette Heyer 3.93 avg rating β€” 604 ratings
49.
The Story of an African Farm
The Story of an African Farm 3.53 avg rating β€” 3,027 ratings
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A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert
A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert 3.79 avg rating β€” 508 ratings
51.
Pilgrimage 1 (Pilgrimage, #1-3)
Pilgrimage 1 (Pilgrimage, #1-3) 3.58 avg rating β€” 506 ratings
51.
The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family
The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family 3.91 avg rating β€” 13,806 ratings
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My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City
My Journey to Lhasa: The Classic Story of the Only Western Woman Who Succeeded in Entering the Forbidden City 3.98 avg rating β€” 2,302 ratings
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All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey
All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey 3.71 avg rating β€” 325 ratings
55.
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR'S Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience 4.22 avg rating β€” 2,437 ratings
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Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson 4.06 avg rating β€” 4,409 ratings
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Tallulah: My Autobiography (Southern Icons Series)
Tallulah: My Autobiography (Southern Icons Series) 3.82 avg rating β€” 274 ratings
58.
Eva Le Gallienne: A Biography
Eva Le Gallienne: A Biography 4.04 avg rating β€” 28 ratings
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An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3)
An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3) 4.21 avg rating β€” 2,516 ratings
60.
The Sphinx and Her Circle
The Sphinx and Her Circle 3.40 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
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Mademoiselle Chanel
Mademoiselle Chanel 4.10 avg rating β€” 12,468 ratings
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Pretty In Ink: Women Cartoonists 1896-2013
Pretty In Ink: Women Cartoonists 1896-2013 3.98 avg rating β€” 130 ratings
63.
Kamratfesten (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)
Kamratfesten (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12) 4.20 avg rating β€” 31,534 ratings
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Violet
Violet 3.69 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
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Save Me the Waltz
Save Me the Waltz 3.52 avg rating β€” 4,452 ratings
66.
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette 3.88 avg rating β€” 1,723 ratings
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City of Light
City of Light 3.78 avg rating β€” 5,604 ratings
68.
A Woman
A Woman 3.91 avg rating β€” 5,055 ratings
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Letters and Extracts from Her Diaries
Letters and Extracts from Her Diaries 4.28 avg rating β€” 43 ratings
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February House: The Story of W.H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in Brooklyn
February House: The Story of W.H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in Brooklyn 3.92 avg rating β€” 608 ratings
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Lesbian Scandal and the Culture of Modernism
Lesbian Scandal and the Culture of Modernism 3.80 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
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The One Who Is Legion
The One Who Is Legion 4.22 avg rating β€” 27 ratings
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The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber: Weimar Berlin's Priestess of Decadence
The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber: Weimar Berlin's Priestess of Decadence 3.63 avg rating β€” 275 ratings
73.
Out in the World: Selected Letters, 1935-1970
Out in the World: Selected Letters, 1935-1970 4.02 avg rating β€” 56 ratings
73.
Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (Illustrated Biographies by Chronicle Books)
Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker (Illustrated Biographies by Chronicle Books) 3.87 avg rating β€” 4,491 ratings
73.
My Turn to Make the Tea
My Turn to Make the Tea 3.67 avg rating β€” 402 ratings
77.
Lee Miller: A Life
Lee Miller: A Life 3.97 avg rating β€” 584 ratings
78.
Between Lives: An Artist and Her World
Between Lives: An Artist and Her World 3.98 avg rating β€” 120 ratings
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Naomi
Naomi 3.69 avg rating β€” 8,403 ratings
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My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles
My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles 4.19 avg rating β€” 698 ratings
80.
Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company
Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company 3.94 avg rating β€” 359 ratings
80.
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote 4.02 avg rating β€” 4,042 ratings
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Devoted Ladies
Devoted Ladies 3.44 avg rating β€” 305 ratings
84.
Bricktop
Bricktop 3.88 avg rating β€” 43 ratings
84.
Paradise Court
Paradise Court 3.89 avg rating β€” 9 ratings
86.
Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale
Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale 4.08 avg rating β€” 65 ratings
86.
Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 4.20 avg rating β€” 86 ratings
88.
The Extraordinary Life of Rebecca West
The Extraordinary Life of Rebecca West 3.64 avg rating β€” 74 ratings
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper 4.09 avg rating β€” 64,219 ratings
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Cross Creek
Cross Creek 4.05 avg rating β€” 2,614 ratings
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American Duchess: A Gilded Age Historical Romance of a Duke and an American Heiress
American Duchess: A Gilded Age Historical Romance of a Duke and an American Heiress 3.66 avg rating β€” 13,476 ratings
92.
All We Know: Three Lives
All We Know: Three Lives 3.57 avg rating β€” 269 ratings
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Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday 4.28 avg rating β€” 1,707 ratings
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The Yearling
The Yearling 4.03 avg rating β€” 30,133 ratings
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Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell and the Making of Gone With the Wind
Southern Daughter: The Life of Margaret Mitchell and the Making of Gone With the Wind 3.66 avg rating β€” 188 ratings
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American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century
American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century 3.74 avg rating β€” 3,061 ratings
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Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood
Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind: A Bestseller's Odyssey from Atlanta to Hollywood 4.12 avg rating β€” 481 ratings
98.
The Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady
The Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady 4.46 avg rating β€” 259 ratings
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Lyric Novella
Lyric Novella 3.48 avg rating β€” 220 ratings
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Dark Horse: A Life of Anna Sewell
Dark Horse: A Life of Anna Sewell 3.88 avg rating β€” 17 ratings
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