Women's History Stars

Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

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• My Face is Black is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations
  Author: Berry, Mary Frances
  Publisher: Knopf $ 26.95 ISBN: 1400040035 Date: 2005
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  Born into slavery, Callie House started the Ex-Slave Mutual Relief Fund, Bounty and Pension Association, which sought African American pensions based on those offered Union Soldiers. Persecuted for her ideas, she was jailed by the U.S. government.
  Suggested Reading: All Stars
  Updated 9.17.05
• The Lost German Slave Girl: The Extraordinary True Story of the Slave Sally Miller and Her Fight For Freedom
  Author: Bailey, John
  Publisher: Atlantic $ 24 ISBN: 0871139219 Date: 2005
  PW
  In brilliant novelistic detail, an award-winning historian John Bailey presents the story of a slave named Sally Miller, who in 1843 was believed by members of the New Orleans' German community to have been illegally enslaved. Bailey uses Miller's dramatic trial to describe the fascinating laws and customs surrounding slavery, immigration, and racial mixing.
  Updated 10.12.04
• May and Amy: A True Story of Family, Forbidden Love, and the Secret Lives of May Gaskell, Her Daughter Amy, and Sir Edward Burne-Jones
  Author: Dimbleby, Josceline
  Publisher: Harmony $ 25 ISBN: 0609609998 Date: 2005
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  The compelling story of an intimate friendship between the painter Edward Burne-Jones and the much younger May Gaskell is richly illustrated by a remarkable collection of letters presenting a charming portrait of a circle of family and friends.
  Updated 11.22.04
• Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire
  by Foreman, Amanda
  Publisher: Random $ 29.95 ISBN: 0375502947 Date: 2000
  PW
  This year's Whitbread Prize-winning biography presents a rich evocation of 18th-century London, revolving around Lady Georgiana Spencer, the great-great-great-great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales.
  
  
• Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered how to Measure the Universe
  Author: Johnson, George
  Publisher: Norton $ 22.95 ISBN: 0393051285 Date: 2005
  LJ Booklist
  Radcliffe-educated Henrietta Swan Leavitt, fighting ill health and progressive deafness, stumbled upon a new law that allowed astronomers to use variable stars--those whose brightness rhythmically changes--as a cosmic yardstick. This is both a masterly account of how the universe is measured and the moving story of a neglected genius.
  Updated 5.20.05
• Savage Summit: The True Stories of the Five Women Who Climbed K2, the World's Most Feared Mountain
  Author: Jordan, Jennifer
  Publisher: Morrow $ 24.95 ISBN: 0060587156 Date: 2005
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  An exhilarating story of victory and disaster, success and heartbreak, Savage Summit is a moving tribute to the five brave women who achieved the near-impossible by climbing the world's most feared mountain.
  Suggested Reading: Sports - Nonfiction Stars
  Updated 12.27.04
• The Happy Bottom Riding Club: the Life and Times of Pancho Barnes
  by Kessler, Lauren
  Publisher: Random $ 24.95 ISBN: 037550124x Date: 2000
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  In a biography written with authority and affection, Kessler presents the true life story of Pancho Barnes--the woman who outflew Amelia Earhart, outsmarted Howard Hughes, outdrank the Mexican army, and outmaneuvered the U.S. government.
  
• Charlotte: Being a True Account of an Actress's Flamboyant Adventures in Eighteenth-Century London's Wild and Wicked Theatrical World
  Author: Shevelow, Kathryn
  Publisher: Holt $ 27.50 ISBN: 0805073140 Date: 2005
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  The life of actress Charlotte Charke transports us through the splendors and scandals of eighteenth-century London and its wicked theatrical world. - Publisher Marketing.
  Updated 3.25.05
  
• Eleanor of Aquitane
  by Weir, Alison
  Publisher: Ballantine $ 28 ISBN: 0345405404 Date: 2000
  PW
  In this new biography, popular British historian Alison Weir vividly captures the life and times of one of the most remarkable women of the Middle Ages.