Biography Great Women

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    • A Social History
    • By: Elizabeth Norton
    • Narrated by: Jennifer Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 650 ratings
    • The Tudor period conjures up images of queens and noblewomen in elaborate court dress, of palace intrigue and dramatic politics....

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    • A History of the First Women's Movement
    • By: Susannah Gibson
    • Narrated by: Fenella Fudge
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In this intimate and revelatory history, Susannah Gibson provides an illuminating group portrait of the 18th-century women who dared to imagine an active life for themselves in both mind and spirit.

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    • The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill
    • By: Sonia Purnell
    • Narrated by: Susan Lyons
    • Length: 17 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,465 ratings
    • Sonia Purnell finally gives Clementine her due with a deeply researched account that tells her life story....

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    • The Untold Story of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, Who Became Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother
    • By: Lady Colin Campbell
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 25 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 188 ratings
    • Packed with stunning revelations, this is the inside story of The Queen Mother from The New York Times best-selling author who first revealed the truth about Princess Diana....

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    • The True Life of Mary Stuart
    • By: John Guy
    • Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
    • Length: 25 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 326 ratings
    • In the first full-scale biography of Mary Stuart in more than 30 years, John Guy creates an intimate and absorbing portrait of one of history's most famous women, depicting her world and her place in the sweep of history with stunning immediacy....

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    • Portrait of a Woman
    • By: Robert K. Massie
    • Narrated by: Mark Deakins
    • Series: The Romanovs
    • Length: 23 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,555 ratings
    • Robert K. Massie returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became Catherine the Great. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into empress of Russia by sheer determination....

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    • The Life & Tragedy of the Prince Regent's Daughter
    • By: Anne M. Stott
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • As the only child of the Prince Regent and Caroline of Brunswick, Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796-1817) was the heiress presumptive to the throne....

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    • The Queens and Consorts Who Shaped the Nation
    • By: Rosalind K. Marshall
    • Narrated by: Ruth Urquhart
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • The lives of the Scottish queens, both those who ruled in their own right and the consorts, have largely been neglected in conventional history books. One of the earliest known Scottish queens was none other than the notorious Lady Macbeth....

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    • The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
    • By: Charlotte Gordon
    • Narrated by: Susan Lyons
    • Length: 22 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 04-28-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 305 ratings
    • Charlotte Gordon's new work is a fresh look at the lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, who together comprise one of the most illustrious and inspiring mother-daughter pairs....

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    • The True Story of the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II
    • By: William Stevenson
    • Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-27-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 384 ratings
    • A rousing tale of espionage and unsung valor, this is the captivating true story of Vera Atkins, Great Britain's spymistress from the age of 25....

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    • Empress, Queen, Warrior
    • By: Catherine Hanley
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • A life of Matilda - empress, skilled military leader, and one of the greatest figures of the English Middle Ages....

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    • By: Carolly Erickson
    • Narrated by: Nelson Runger
    • Length: 18 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • In an age of male supremacy Elizabeth the First, by sheer force of character, became not only the unchallenged leader of the English but also the first leader of an empire upon which the sun never set....

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    • The Women Behind the Wars of the Roses
    • By: Sarah Gristwood
    • Narrated by: Corrie James
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • To contemporaries, the Wars of the Roses were known collectively as a "cousins' war." The series of dynastic conflicts that tore apart the ruling Plantagenet family in 15th-century England was truly a domestic drama, as fraught and intimate as any family feud before or since....

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    • How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better
    • By: Tyler Cowen
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 2 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • America has been through the biggest financial crisis since the great Depression, unemployment numbers are frightening, median wages have been flat since the 1970s....

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    • Governor of the Netherlands and Early 16th-Century Europe's Greatest Diplomat
    • By: Rozsa Gaston
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • An Amazon Top 25 Biographies of Royalty Best Seller ◆ FIRST PLACE WINNER - 2023 CHAUCER Book Awards - Early Historical Fiction ◆ WINNER - 2023 ...

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    • A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search
    • By: Martin Sixsmith
    • Narrated by: John Curless
    • Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 10-07-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 922 ratings
    • Now a major motion picture directed by Stephen Frears and starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan....

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    • American Heiresses Who Married into the British Aristocracy
    • By: Anne de Courcy
    • Narrated by: Clare Corbett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 681 ratings
    • The Husband Hunters is a deliciously told historical audiobook about the young, rich, American heiresses who married impoverished, British gentry at the turn of the 20th century - the real women who inspired Downton Abbey....

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    • Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth-Century England
    • By: Gemma Hollman
    • Narrated by: Heather Wilds
    • Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • Until the mass hysteria of the 17th century, accusations of witchcraft in England were rare. However, four royal women, related in family and in court ties were accused of practicing witchcraft in order to kill or influence the king....

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    • Her True Story - in Her Own Words
    • By: Andrew Morton
    • Narrated by: Michael Maloney, Caroline Langrishe
    • Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,750 ratings
    • The sensational biography of Princess Diana, now revised to commemorate the 20th anniversary of her death....

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