Download or read book Famous Women written by Giovanni Boccaccio and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Female Biography written by Mary Hays and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Illustrious women who have distinguished themselves for virtue piety and benevolence by G F Pardon written by George Frederick Pardon and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Famous Girls who Have Become Illustrious Women written by John Maw Darton and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief biographies of twenty notable women, chiefly from nineteenth-century Europe.

Download or read book World Famous Women written by Frank Boott Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Girlhood of Famous Women written by Frederick John Snell and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Clever Girls of Our Time and how They Became Famous Women By the Author of Clever Boys and how They Became Famous Men I e J Johnson Fifth Edition written by Joseph JOHNSON (Author of “Heroines of our Time.”.) and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Famous Women of the Bible written by Henry Davenport Northrop and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Famous Women of the New Testament written by Morton Bryan Wharton and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Famous Women written by Pierre de Bourdeille Brantôme (seigneur de) and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Famous women written by Edgar Sanderson and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Famous Women as Described by Famous Writers written by Esther Singleton and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Genius of Women written by Janice Kaplan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We tell girls that they can be anything, so why do 90 percent of Americans believe that geniuses are almost always men? New York Times bestselling journalist and creator and host of the podcast The Gratitude Diaries Janice Kaplan explores the powerful forces that have rigged the system—and celebrates the women geniuses, past and present, who have triumphed anyway. Even in this time of rethinking women’s roles, we define genius almost exclusively through male achievement. When asked to name a genius, people mention Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Steve Jobs. As for great women? In one survey, the only female genius anyone listed was Marie Curie. Janice Kaplan, the New York Times bestselling author of The Gratitude Diaries, set out to determine why the extraordinary work of so many women has been brushed aside. Using her unique mix of memoir, narrative, and inspiration, she makes surprising discoveries about women geniuses now and throughout history, in fields from music to robotics. Through interviews with neuroscientists, psychologists, and dozens of women geniuses at work in the world today—including Nobel Prize winner Frances Arnold and AI expert Fei-Fei Li—she proves that genius isn't just about talent. It's about having that talent recognized, nurtured, and celebrated. Across the generations, even when they face less-than-perfect circumstances, women geniuses have created brilliant and original work. In The Genius of Women, you’ll learn how they ignored obstacles and broke down seemingly unshakable barriers. The geniuses in this moving, powerful, and very entertaining book provide more than inspiration—they offer a clear blueprint to everyone who wants to find her own path and move forward with passion.

Download or read book Famous Women and Heroes written by Nicholas Michell and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Exemplary Women of Early China written by Anne Behnke Kinney and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When should a woman disobey her father, contradict her husband, or shape the policy of a ruler? According to the Lienü zhuan, or Categorized Biographies of Women, it is not only appropriate but necessary for women to offer counsel when fathers, husbands, sons, and rulers stray from virtue. The earliest Chinese text devoted to the moral education of women, the Lienü zhuan was compiled by Liu Xiang (79–8 B.C.E.) at the end of the Han dynasty (202 B.C.E.–9 C.E.) and recounts the deeds of both virtuous and wicked women. Informed by early legends, fictionalized historical accounts, and formal speeches on statecraft, the text taught generations of Chinese women to cultivate filial piety and maternal kindness and undertake such practices as suicide and self-mutilation to preserve chastity and reform wayward men. The Lienü zhuan’s stories inspired artists for a millennium and found their way into local and dynastic histories. An innovative work for its time, the text remains a critical tool for mapping women’s social, political, and domestic roles at a formative time in China’s development.

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Download or read book The Treasure of the City of Ladies written by Christine de Pizan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Europe’s first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. It paints an intricate picture of daily life in the courts and streets of fifteenth-century France and gives a fascinating glimpse into the practical considerations of running a household, dressing appropriately and maintaining a reputation in all circumstances. Christine de Pizan’s book provides a valuable counterbalance to male accounts of life in the middle ages and demonstrates, often with dry humour, how a woman’s position in society could be made less precarious by following the correct etiquette.