Women in History
azw3, epub |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:Anne de Courcy

14 ‘Where every Jack has someone else’s Jill’ The Hills The hill stations – the small towns and stations where the altitude gave welcome coolness in the summer months – ...
( Category: Women in History August 30,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-18 | Author:Elizabeth Lev [Lev, Elizabeth]

14. BLINDED BY LOVE AS CATERINA CONTINUED her affair with Giacomo Feo, the political landscape in Italy was altering dramatically and dangerously. The distractions of her private life would blind ...
( Category: Italy August 29,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Betsy Prioleau

The women who hated these sorcières weren’t just mustachioed Mrs. Grundys and village scolds; many, like George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, and the ladies of Lyons and Restoration England, composed the ...
( Category: Sexuality August 14,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-03-06 | Author:Joyce Tyldesley

Through her transvestism, she abrogated the destiny of womankind. She could thereby transcend her sex; she could set herself apart and usurp the privileges of the male and his claims ...
( Category: Presidents & Heads of State July 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-04-04 | Author:Harold Goldberg [Goldberg, Harold]

* CBS television came over to interview me about the rape scene. I mentioned to them that parents or the faint of heart could turn off the offending portion of ...
( Category: Minecraft July 6,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Fariba Nawa [Nawa, Fariba]

My father gave my mother the name Nafasgul, meaning “the breath of a flower,” as was tradition in their generation—husbands often gave their wives endearing nicknames when they first married. ...
( Category: Journalism & Nonfiction June 20,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-02-01 | Author:Varlow, Sally [Varlow, Sally]

CHAPTER TWENTY January–December 1596 “With best forewinds guide the journey, speed the victory” – Elizabeth I, 3 June 1596 Essex’s daring raid on the Spanish port of Cadiz in the ...
( Category: Women in History June 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-14 | Author:Kati Marton [Marton, Kati]

* * * * Peter had been ABC News anchor once before, in the sixties, before he was ready for it. It was then that he began his apprenticeship as ...
( Category: Women in History June 6,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Meryl Gordon [Gordon, Meryl]

As Annette de la Renta headed out the door after a visit at 778 Park, she asked Pearline Noble what she could bring for Mrs. Astor the next time. "A ...
( Category: Women June 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-23 | Author:Andersen, Christopher [Andersen, Christopher]

A few days after Jason’s bar mitzvah, Barbra flew to New York B A R B R A 2 7 1 and was soon seen out on the town with ...
( Category: Home Repair June 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-04-21 | Author:Jeffrey Zaslow [Zaslow, Jeffrey]

Jane and Marilyn at Jane’s wedding Justin and Jane would eventually settle in New England as academics—Justin at Brown and Miriam Hospital, Jane at Stonehill—and the girls were unanimous in ...
( Category: Women in History May 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-02 | Author:Doris L. Rich [Rich, Doris L.]

At the next stop in Portland, a reporter overheard a woman who saw Amelia at the train station say, “Why—she’s quite a beautiful person!” and another newsman wrote that her ...
( Category: United States May 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1991-06-01 | Author:Marion Meade [Meade, Marion]

In London, Eleanor had followed developments on the Continent between her present and former husbands with interest and possibly a touch of amusement. Whatever other emotions she may have had ...
( Category: Women in History May 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Qiu, Peipei, Zhiliang, Su, Lifei, Chen

Since 2000, every month the Research Center for Chinese “Comfort Women” has sent two hundred yuan to Lin Yajin and other Japanese military comfort station survivors in China, using funds ...
( Category: Women in History May 22,2014 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Anne Frank [Frank, Anne]

“Gökyüzü ve güneş varken kendimi nasıl kötü hissedebilirim?” dedim kendi kendime. “Tanrı bizim mutlu olmamızı, bu dünyanın güzelliklerini görmemizi istiyor. O bize tüm zorlukların üstesinden gelmemiz için yardım ediyor.” 27 ...
( Category: Europe May 19,2014 )