April 2022 Issue
Joan Smith
Not Without Cause
When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold
By Alia Trabucco Zerán (Translated from Spanish by Sophie Hughes)
LR
April 2022 Issue
Emma Smith
What Is She Reading?
March 2022 Issue
Levi Roach
Torn to Death by Horses
The Dark Queens: A Gripping Tale of Power, Ambition and Murderous Rivalry in Early Medieval France
By Shelley Puhak
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June 2021 Issue
Frances Cairncross
They Fought to Report
Going with the Boys: Six Extraordinary Women Writing from the Front Line
By Judith Mackrell
Invisible Walls: A Journalist in Search of Her Life
By Hella Pick
LR
March 2021 Issue
Rana Mitter
Women of the World
Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology
By Frances Larson
LR
March 2021 Issue
Norma Clarke
The Female Gaze
The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience – 500 Years of Women’s Self-Portraits
By Jennifer Higgie
February 2021 Issue
Judith Hawley
Mary, Quite Contrary
Wollstonecraft: Philosophy, Passion, and Politics
By Sylvana Tomaselli
September 2020 Issue
Wendy Moore
Like Mother, Like Daughter
Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel
By Rachel Holmes
LR
September 2020 Issue
Wendy Holden
They Moved the Goalposts
The Fleet Street Girls: The Women Who Broke Down the Doors of the Gentlemen’s Club
By Julie Welch
LR
April 2020 Issue
Patricia Fara
Suffragettes with Stethoscopes
Endell Street: The Trailblazing Women Who Ran World War One’s Most Remarkable Military Hospital
By Wendy Moore
April 2020 Issue
Vicky Pryce
When Mortgages Were Just for Men
The Double X Economy: The Epic Potential of Women’s Empowerment
By Linda Scott
Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood in Modern Britain
By Helen McCarthy
LR
April 2020 Issue
Louise Foxcroft
Cruel Intentions
Strange Antics: A History of Seduction
By Clement Knox
LR
February 2020 Issue
Joan Smith
Ladies Who Punch
Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights
By Helen Lewis
November 2019 Issue
Jonathan Keates
Fronte Femminile
A House in the Mountains: The Women Who Liberated Italy from Fascism
By Caroline Moorehead
LR
November 2019 Issue
Susan Owens
Out of the Shadows
Pre-Raphaelite Sisters
By Jan Marsh, with contributions by Peter Funnell, Charlotte Gere, Pamela Gerrish Nunn & Alison Smith
February 1982 Issue
Elizabeth Longford
The Princess and the Prussian
The Other Victoria
By Andrew Sinclair
LR
February 1982 Issue
Celia Haddon
Female Friends
Surpassing the Love of Men
By Lillian Faderman
LR
February 1982 Issue
Santha Bhattacharji
Spiritual Endeavour
The Solitary, Self Individuality in the Ancrene Wisse
By Linda Georgianna
LR
April 1981 Issue
Anita Desai
Land of Women
The Woman Warrior
By Maxine Hong Kingston
China Men
By Maxine Hong Kingston
LR
March 1994 Issue
Jessica Mann
Will Appeal Even to Anti-Wimmin Readers
A History of Women in the West Vol IV: Emerging Feminism from Revolution to World War
By Geneviève Fraisse & Michelle Perrot (edd)
LR
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