Hi, everybody! I'm a big biography reader and I am trying to diversify the range of historical figures I read about. While I've read a lot of biographies of women, pretty much all of them have been women who were the wives, daughters, sisters, or mothers of more well-known men. I would like to read more about women who are well-known or historically relevant in their own right.
I have Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's A Midwife's Tale on my to-read list and I am looking for other recommendations in that vein. Any region or era is welcome!
by Confident-Park-4718
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*Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It* by Janina Ramirez sounds just your speed
It’s an autobiography (though almost certainly ghost written), but Swanson On Swanson by the silent movie and Sunset Boulevard actress is great.
Boudicca: warrior queen.