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Female Innovators Who Changed Our World
How Women Shaped STEM
Price: $9.99
ISBN: 9781526789709
Pub Date: 2022-04-13
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
168 Pages
We are not all born with equal opportunities. Yet there have been countless of women who have overcome a range of barriers such as prejudice, illness, and personal tragedy to advance our understanding of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). They used their knowledge to change the world, and their stories are fascinating.
Following Nellie Bly
Her Record-Breaking Race Around the World
Price: $16.99
ISBN: 9781526761415
Pub Date: 2021-05-31
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
184 Pages
Intrepid journalist Nellie Bly raced through a ‘man’s world’ — alone and literally with just the clothes on her back — to beat the fictional record set by Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days. She won the race on 25 January 1890, covering 21,740 miles by ocean liner and train in 72 days, and became a global celebrity.
The Life and Travels of Isabella Bird
The Fearless Victorian Adventurer
Price: $12.99
ISBN: 9781526763259
Pub Date: 2021-05-12
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
176 Pages
Isabella Bird travelled to the wildest places on earth, but at home in Britain she lay in bed, hardly able to write: 'an invalid at home and a Samson abroad'.
Sister Sleuths
Female Detectives in Britain
Price: $12.99
ISBN: 9781526780263
Pub Date: 2021-03-03
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
216 Pages
The 1857 Divorce Act paved the way for a new career for women: that of the private detective. To divorce, you needed proof of adultery - and men soon realised that women were adept at infiltrating households and befriending wives, learning secrets and finding evidence.
Lady Charlotte Guest
The Exceptional Life of a Female Industrialist
Price: $29.99
ISBN: 9781526768827
Pub Date: 2020-11-23
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
224 Pages
When impoverished aristocrat Lady Charlotte Bertie married wealthy Welsh ironmaster John Guest of Dowlais in 1833, her relatives looked on with dismay. Yet despite their vast difference of background and age, over their nineteen-year long marriage, husband and wife enjoyed great happiness and much adventure.
Mrs Despard and The Suffrage Movement
Founder of The Women's Freedom League
Price: $12.99
ISBN: 9781526731135
Pub Date: 2020-03-19
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
224 Pages
Charlotte Despard, social reformer and suffragette, was always known as Mrs Despard, never Charlotte. Her name should be synonymous with those of Emmeline Pankhurst and Millicent Fawcett. Instead, she remains overlooked.
The Brontë Sisters
Life, Loss and Literature
Price: $14.97
ISBN: 9781526703149
Pub Date: 2018-02-28
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
256 Pages
Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall... these fictional masterpieces are all recognized as landmarks of English Literature. Still inspirational and challenging to readers today,...
Female Innovators Who Changed Our World
How Women Shaped STEM
Price: $9.99
ISBN: 9781526789709
Pub Date: 2022-04-13
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
168 Pages
Following Nellie Bly
Her Record-Breaking Race Around the World
Price: $16.99
ISBN: 9781526761415
Pub Date: 2021-05-31
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
184 Pages
The Life and Travels of Isabella Bird
The Fearless Victorian Adventurer
Price: $12.99
ISBN: 9781526763259
Pub Date: 2021-05-12
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
176 Pages
Sister Sleuths
Female Detectives in Britain
Price: $12.99
ISBN: 9781526780263
Pub Date: 2021-03-03
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
216 Pages
Lady Charlotte Guest
The Exceptional Life of a Female Industrialist
Price: $29.99
ISBN: 9781526768827
Pub Date: 2020-11-23
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
224 Pages
Mrs Despard and The Suffrage Movement
Founder of The Women's Freedom League
Price: $12.99
ISBN: 9781526731135
Pub Date: 2020-03-19
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
224 Pages
The Brontë Sisters
Life, Loss and Literature
Price: $14.97
ISBN: 9781526703149
Pub Date: 2018-02-28
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
256 Pages