Author: Susan E. Edgar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781561569793
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 584

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Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674011304
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Giovanni Boccaccio devoted the last decades of his life to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is this text, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted to women.

Author: Megan Mayhew Bergman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476786569
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Nearly every story in this collection is based on a woman who attained some celebrity, from Lord Byron's illegitimate daughter, Allegra, to Oscar Wilde's troubled niece, Dolly.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 766

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Author: Sarah M. Wooten
Publisher: Blackbirch Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781567112542
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70

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A profile of the life and accomplishments of one of the world's most successful and influential businesswomen and arbiters of home fashion and dining.

Author: Tom Tierney
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486253824
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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16 dolls, 32 authentic, detailed costumes. Pocahontas, "Molly Pitcher," Harriet Beecher Stowe, Julia Ward Howe, Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Mary Baker Eddy, Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, Gertude Stein Eleanor Roosevelt, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mary Pickford, Amelia Earhart, and Golda Meir. Informative, well-researched text.

Author: Charles Francis Horne
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781022616073
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Part of a larger biographical series, this book examines the lives and legacies of some of the world's most famous artists and authors. Featuring well-known figures such as Leonardo da Vinci, William Shakespeare, and Michelangelo, as well as lesser-known artists and authors, this book offers an engaging and informative glimpse into the lives of these creative geniuses. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Melissa De la Cruz
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0345462947
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Two journalists describe their whirlwind efforts to become famous in two weeks by getting their names and faces in magazines, newspapers, and on television.

Author: Emily Rose Kucharczyk
Publisher: Blackbirch Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781567115925
Category : Painters
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Introduces the life of the painter whose fame came to rest with her large works from nature.

Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Short biographical sketches of 104 women of mythology, history and fantasy, written over 600 years ago, now translated into English.