Nonfiction
How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity
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Jill Burke is a historian of the body and its visual representation, also noted for her Royal-Society funded project, ‘Renaissance Goo’, to remake ...Read Review
Once Upon a Time World: The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera
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The One-Upon-A-Time-World is the French Riviera, that tiny strip of land which has had such a disproportionate impact on the cultural history of ...Read Review
The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes: Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe
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1838, and in Tyldesley, Lancashire, a man carefully pastes fabric cuttings into a scrapbook. In slanting copperplate, he records: This is the dress my ...Read Review
America’s Forgotten Suffragists: Virginia and Francis Minor
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The less-known history of Virginia and Francis Minor’s efforts to present the issue of woman’s suffrage before the Supreme Court is ...Read Review
The Girls Who Fought Crime: The Untold True Story of the Country’s First Female Investigator and Her Crime Fighting Squad
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How did women enter the New York Police Department? A retired Army major general tackles the story of pioneer policewoman Mae Foley—born ...Read Review
Family Reins: The Extraordinary Rise and Epic Fall of an American Dynasty
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Family Reins chronicles the history of the Anheuser-Busch brewing company, makers of Budweiser beer, from its beginnings in 1857 to its legacy today. Its ...Read Review
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia
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The author is correct in that the account of the phenomenon of the encyclopaedia is indeed astonishing. From being a bastion of printed ...Read Review
Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter
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To those who might imagine the medieval period to be defined as ‘before the Tudors and after the Romans’ and also as a ‘...Read Review
Exit Wounds: A Vietnam Elegy
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“Wars may be fought valiantly, but not gloriously. Glory is spit-shine. War stories should end in grief. Grief is searing” (41-42). And so ...Read Review
Flirting with Danger: The Mysterious Life of Marguerite Harrison, Socialite Spy
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Janet Wallach’s meticulously researched biography chronicles the awe-inspiring life of Marguerite Elton Baker Harrison (1879-1967). Left penniless at age 37 after marriage, the ...Read Review
