India’s Bandit Queen: The True Story of Phoolan Devi by Mala Sen. Har-vill Press, 1991.
Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley, Profile Books, 2009.
The Collected Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker, Penguin Modern Classics, 2001.
Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is This? by Marion Meade, Penguin, 1989. Marie Stopes: A Biography by Ruth Hall, HarperCollins, 1977.
Wanting by Richard Flanagan, Vintage, 2016 – отличная, незабываемая книга о том, как колонисты обращались с тасманийскими аборигенами. Записи песен Фанни Кокрейн-Смит можно найти в Сети, они просто потрясающие.
Betty Ford: Candor and Courage in the White House by John Robert Greene, University Press of Kansas, 2004.
Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton, Empire Books, 2011.
The Short Life and Long Times of Isabella Beeton by Kathryn Hughes, HarperCollins, 2006.
The Transferred Life of George Eliot by Philip Davis, Oxford University Press, 2017.
Odette: World War Two’s Darling Spy by Penny Starns, The History Press, 2009.
Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by Anita Anand, Bloomsbury, 2015.
Game Changers: The Unsung Heroines of Sports History by Molly Schiot, Simon and Schuster, 2016.
The Match: Althea Gibson and the Portrait of a Friendship by Bruce Schoenfeld, Amistad Press, 2005.
Elizabeth: The Queen by Alison Weir, Vintage, 2009.
Elizabeth: Apprenticeship by David Starkey, Vintage, 2001.
Agatha Christie: A Biography by Janet Morgan, HarperCollins, 2017.
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evan, Portfolio, 2018. (Для более молодых читателей: Grace Hopper: Queen of Computer Code by Laurie Wallmark, Sterling, 2017.)
Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History by Thomas Barfield, Princeton University Press, 2012.
Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie, Head of Zeus, 2012.
Catherine, Empress of All the Russias by Vincent Cronin, The Harvill Press, London, 1978.
Hedy’s Folly: The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, by Richard Rhodes, Doubleday, 2011.
Eleanor of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England by Alison Weir, Pimlico, 2000.
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life by Justine Picardie, HarperCollins, 2013.
Nell Gwyn by Charles Beauclerk, Macmillan, 2005.
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox, HarperCollins, 2003.
The Double Helix: The Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James Watson, Weidenfeld & Nicholas, 2003.
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang, Vintage, 2014.
Amelia Earhart: The Sound of Wings by Mary S. Lovell, Abacus, 2009. Clara Schumann: The Artist and the Woman by Nancy B. Reich, Cornell University Press, 2001.
Inanna, Lady of the Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna by Betty De Shong Meador, University of Texas Press, 2001.
Josephine Baker in Art and Life by Benetta Jules-Rosette, University of Illinois Press, 2007.
Victoria: A Life by A. N. Wilson, Atlantic, 2015.
The Wonderful Adventures of Mary Seacole in Many Lands by Mary Seacole, Penguin Classics, 2005.