Ciufi Galeazzi
Dr. Elsie Inglis
Dr. Elsie Inglis is one of the unsung heroes of the late 19th and early 20th century. She became a physician in 1894, and shortly after ope…
Aspects of the Novel
This s a series of lectures given at Trinity College by the acclaimed author E.M. Forster (A Passage to India, Howard's End, A Room With a V…
Pierre Curie
This biography of the noted French physicist Pierre Curie was written by his wife, the renowned physicist Marie Curie. In it, she not only c…
A Political Pilgrim in Europe
Written in the aftermath of Word War I, Viscountess Snowden recounts her travels in post war Europe in, as she describes it, "an attemp…
The Life of Florence Nightingale
Journalist and author Sarah Tooley was best known in her time for her biography of Queen Victoria and this biography of Florence Nightingale…
The Long Road of Woman's Memory
In this book, Jane Addams tells of a strange rumor involving Hull House, the famed settlement house founded by her in Chicago in 1889. The r…
Tragedy in Dedham: The Story of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case
The Sacco and Vanzetti trial was one of the most divisive events of 1920's America. As Russell writes, " If one was middle class and Re…
A Daughter of the Seine
This biography of Madame Roland was written for young adults but can be equally enjoyed by adult readers. Madame Roland was a key figure in …
Life of Frances Power Cobbe as Told by Herself
Frances Power Cobbe was an important Irish-Anglo writer, suffragist, anti-vivisectionist, philosopher, and reformer of the mid to late 1800s…
An Old Master and Other Political Essays
This is a collection of five essays published by Woodrow Wilson in 1893, while he was Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University (s…
A Life of Napoleon
Ida Tarbell is best known today as the investigative journalist whose pieces on workings of the Standard Oil Company led to the creation of …