One of a series of lists of suggested books for reading groups on women's history.

Women's Point of View

Looking at history and historical events through the lives, perspectives and contributions of women.

Hidden in Plain View : A Secret Story of Quilts and the Underground Railroad
by Jacqueline Tobin, Raymond Dobard

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
by Jung Chang
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Liberty's Daughters : The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800
by Mary Beth Norton
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A Diary from Dixie
by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, Mary B. Chestnut
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The journal of the wife of an aide to Jefferson Davis (and the source of many quotes in the television documentary The Civil War).

Titanic Survivor: The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop Who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic Disaster
by Violet Jessop, John Maxtone-Graham
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