Recounts the nonconformist life of the Ohio-born feminist whose openly defiant careers, candidacy for the Presidency in 1872, and outspoken views on such topics as women's rights and marriage reform shocked the American public

Product Description: Marion Meade portrays Eleanor of Aquitaine as a woman of great intelligence and titanic energy who lived in a passionate and creative age. A comprehensive account of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. The wife of King Louis VII of France and then of King Henry II of England, and mother to Richard Coeur de Lion and King John, she became the key political figure of the 12th century...read more

Traces the life of the American journalist, screenwriter, and wit, describes her relationships with the other members of the Algonquin Round Table, and attempts to portray her complex personality

A 100th birthday celebration of the life and work of Buster Keaton is based on interviews with his closest friends and family members and chronicles his abusive childhood, struggle with alcoholism, and marriages

Product Description: [This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.][Read by Grace Conlin]She was known for her outrageous one-liners, her ruthless theater criticism, her clever verses and bittersweet stories. But there was another side of Dorothy Parker: a private life set on a course of destruction through two divorces, a string of painful affairs, a lifelong problem with alcohol, and several suicide attempts...read more

Traces the life and career of the celebrated filmmaker, discussing the inspiration behind his films and his controversial private life. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This novel about a woman troubadours life, loves, and art is set in thirteenth-century southern France during Europes first great holocaust, the Albigensian crusade. It follows the poets envelopment by an irrational warsieges, massacres, and the newly founded Inquisition...read more

Product Description: After forty years in the spotlight as comedian, author, director, and professional neurotic, Woody Allen is a living legend. To fans, his films have always represented a sort of ongoing autobiography. This is the first uncensored biography to investigate one of our era's most celebrated, distinctive, and confounding filmmakers...read more

Product Description: Madame Helena Blavatsky, the founder of Theosophy, was the granddaughter of a White Russian princess. She became the first internationally famous professional psychic and she was also a brilliant occult con artist who drew such figures as G...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Traces the intersecting lives of writers Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber, describing how their relationships with such men as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Harold Ross, as well as period attitudes about economic independence and sexual freedom, affected their lives. Reprint.

Product Description: This is an exuberant group portrait of four extraordinary writers--Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Edna Ferber--whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors captured the spirit of the 1920s. Marion Meade re-creates the aura of excitement, romance, and promise of the 1920s, when these literary heroines did what they wanted, said what they thought, and kicked open the door for twentieth-century women, setting a new model for every woman trying to juggle the serious issues of economic independence, political power, and sexual freedom...read more

A memorable selection of stories, poems, essays, articles, and reviews by the American humorist reveals the range of her wit and satire. Read by Lorna Raver. Book available.

Product Description: When it comes to expressing the pleasure and pain of being just a touch too smart to be happy, Dorothy Parker is still the champion, after all these years. Along with Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, and the rest of the Algonquin Round Table, she dominated American popular literature in the 1920s and 1930s...read more

Product Description: The blackly comic play about the oppressed lives of women in 1950s New York One of literature's leading humorists, Dorothy Parker drew from the dark side of her imagination to pen The Ladies of the Corridor, a searing drama about women living on their own in a New York residence hotel...read more

Product Description: Best remembered as a member of the Algonquin Round Table, the fabled Jazz Age literay coterie, Dorothy Parker built a reputations as one of the era's most beloved poets. Parker's satirical wit and sharp-edged humour earned her a reputation as the wittiest woman in America...read more

Product Description: Nathanael West was a comic artist whose insight into the brutalities and absurdities of modern life proved prophetic. He is famous for two masterpieces, Miss Lonelyhearts and the most penetrating novel ever written about Hollywood, The Day of the Locust...read more

Product Description: “A psychologically nuanced, tough-minded portrait” of the New York filmmaker and his relationships with Mia Farrow and Soon-Yi Previn (Publishers Weekly). Writer, director, actor, humorist. Woody Allen stands as one of our era’s most celebrated artists...read more

A biography of Victoria Woodhull, the first woman who ran for President of the United States, in 1872. Woodhull was an unconventional woman who emerged on the political scene from a background of poverty and a career as actress, stockbroker and journalist. Twice divorced, she outraged even the feminists of her day by refusing to confine her campaign to the issue of womens suffrage. Instead, she advocated reform of marriage and family institutions, as well as free love.

One of the classic books from the Second Wave of Feminism, Bitching is based on the kinds of conversations that women have with each other about their life experiences, from birth to old age, particularly about their relationships with the male sex. Includes interviews with teenagers, housewives, mothers, divorcees, working women, all speaking candidly in no-holds barred informal sessions. The concept of the book had its roots in the womens liberation consciousness-raising sessions during the Sixties and Seventies.

In twelfth century France, two of Europe’s greatest minds met and fell in love. It was a love forbidden by the world around them and eventually they were torn apart from each other. But the spark of it remained smoldering inside the lovers until their death and beyond.Heloise and her tutor, Peter Abelard, share a devotion passionate in its depth and beautiful in its thoughtfulness. They marry, and Heloise bears a son whom she names Astrolabe. However, all of this must be done in secret, for Abelard is forbidden to wed by the church, which considers him a cleric. When the truth of their relationship is exposed, they are separated and punished both in body and soul.Marion Meade weaves history and fiction together in Stealing Heaven, an epic story of one of history’s most tragic love affairs. With facts pulled from Heloise’s actual love letters, Meade creates a poetic and sensual tapestry of France in the twelfth century.Heloise and Abelard lived beyond their punishment in quiet contemplation of life and God—Abelard as a monk and Heloise as a nun and the founder of a convent. Her story is one of a brilliant woman, trapped within the confines of her society. But it is also the story of an inspiring love that has lived on throughout history.