Frances Cairncross

Balancing the Books

The Women Who Made Modern Economics

By Rachel Reeves

LR

October 2023 Issue

Eileen M Hunt

Feminism vs Big Brother

Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life

By Anna Funder

Julia

By Sandra Newman

October 2023 Issue

Sara Lodge

Ladies in Lemon

Decadent Women: Yellow Book Lives

By Jad Adams

LR

October 2023 Issue

Avi Shilon

A Fighter, Not a Feminist

Golda Meir: Israel’s Matriarch

By Deborah E Lipstadt

LR

September 2023 Issue

Lucy Moore

Royalist Surrealist

Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish

By Francesca Peacock

LR

August 2023 Issue

Sarah Dunant

Shopping & Plucking

How to Be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity

By Jill Burke

Painted Love: Renaissance Marriage Portraits

By Holburne Museum, Bath, until 1 October

August 2023 Issue

Kate Kirkpatrick

Chords of Freedom

The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the Salvation of Philosophy

By Wolfram Eilenberger (Translated from German by Shaun Whiteside)

LR

June 1999 Issue

Kathryn Hughes

Best Account We Have

George’s Ghosts: The Secret Life of W B Yeats

By Brenda Maddox

May 2023 Issue

Norma Clarke

Running Free

In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors

By Rachel Hewitt

LR

May 2023 Issue

Sarah Watling

Painting Her Own Way

Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris

By Alicia Foster

LR

May 2023 Issue

Jane O’Grady

Writing a Match

The Marriage Question: George Eliot’s Double Life

By Clare Carlisle

LR

May 2023 Issue

Freya Johnston

She Bamboozled Lord Byron

Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit

By Antonia Fraser

LR

March 2023 Issue

Rupert Christiansen

They Struck a Chord

Quartet: How Four Women Changed the Musical World

By Leah Broad

LR

February 2023 Issue

Caroline Moorehead

Welcome to the Hotel Florida

Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Following Writers and Rebels in the Spanish Civil War

By Sarah Watling

December 2022 Issue

Norma Clarke

Sense & Insolvency

Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës

By Devoney Looser

LR

November 2022 Issue

Allan Massie

Over the Sea to Skye

‘Pretty Young Rebel’: The Life of Flora Macdonald

By Flora Fraser

LR

November 2022 Issue

Miranda Seymour

Testament of Friendship

Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby

By Elaine and English Showalter (edd)

LR

August 2022 Issue

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Royalist Generalissima

Henrietta Maria: Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen

By Leanda de Lisle

July 2022 Issue

Igor Toronyi-Lalic,

While My Bamboo Buzzer Gently Weeps

Sound Within Sound: Opening Our Ears to the Twentieth Century

By Kate Molleson

LR

July 2022 Issue

Tanya Harrod

Kelmscott Revisited

How We Might Live: At Home with Jane and William Morris

By Suzanne Fagence Cooper

LR

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