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Women's Point of View

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

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

  • Liberty's Daughters : The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800
    by Mary Beth Norton
    (compare prices)

  • A Diary from Dixie
    by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, Mary B. Chestnut
    (compare prices)
    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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