by Benedetta Craveri

French salons in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were presided over by women who brought together not only intellectuals and socialites, but also political and military figures. Salons allowed differences among these powerful sectors to be resolved through the art of conversation rather than war. This is a vivid look at the women, salons, guests, converstions, and political and social environments of the ancien regime.

• 506 pp

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by Nina Berberova
The Baroness Budberg lived in the lap of luxury until the Bolshevik Revolution forced her to live by her wits. Mistress to Maxim Gorky and H.G. Wells, she was a woman of enormous intelligence and charmwhose deepest passion was undoubtedly mythologizing her own life. Before Berberova, one of the great novelists of the twentieth century, she lived in the Gorky household with Moura. In this legendary biography, she paints a portrait of the ultimate survivor.
Hardcover • 360 pp

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Lives of Some Outsider Women
by Rosemary Dinnage
Alone! Alone! tells the stories of a variety of odd and accomplished women, all of whom in one way or another lived their lives apart from their contemporaries. Here are solitary figures like Gwen John, Simone Weil, and Barbara Pym, muses and partners of dominant men like Clementine Churchill and Giuseppina Verdi, survivors such as Isak Dinesen, Doris Lessing, and Rebecca West, and other writers including Katherine Mansfield, Iris Murdoch, and Anita Brookner.

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The calamity of the blind is immense, irreparable. But it does not take away our share of the things that count—service, friendship, humor, imagination, wisdom.—Helen Keller Out of print for nearly a century, this is a personal and deeply spiritual work. Here this preternaturally gifted deaf and blind young woman closely describes her sensations and the workings of her imagination. This new edition also includes her early essay "Optimism," as well as her first published work, "My Story," written when she was twelve.

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by Elizabeth Hardwick • Introduction by Joan Didion

In Seduction and Betrayal, Elizabeth Hardwick considers the careers of women writers as well as the larger question of the presence of women in literature. A gallery of unforgettable portraits—of Virginia Woolf and Zelda Fitzgerald, Dorothy Wordsworth and Jane Carlyle—as wellas a provocative reading of such works as Wuthering Heights, Hedda Gabler, and the poems of Sylvia Plath, this is a virtuoso performance, a major writer's reckoning with the relations between men and women,women and writing, writing and life.
PB • 5" x 8" • 224 pp

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