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Palin and Clinton made history in 2008 as candidates for the highest offices in the United States. They join an impressive list of international women.

Ann Harvey, with her father, brother, and Newfoundland dog risked her life to help shipwreck victims in 1828.

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The Egyptian goddess Isis had an unusual role in Egyptian myth. A protope of the goddess-heroine, she would influence later myths.

An astonishing act of bravery by an outraged woman broke the siege and saved La Coruna from defeat.

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Though Jane Austen grew throughout her writing life as she experienced life itself, her first and last novels have surprising similarities.

Accounting for almost 60 percent of paperback sales, romance is everywhere. The classic Romance story structure is easy to develop and works like a charm.

Disguised as a man, Deborah Samson fought during the American Revolution; after being wounded, she received an honorable discharge and began a public speaking career.

American-born War of 1812 heroine Laura Secord is credited with the British victory in one of that war's most strategic battles.

She is, quite literally, a killer. Katsa is the lead character in this suspenseful, intense novel about a land where people are born with talents that alienate them.

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Franklin and Sampson vowed to protect home and country. Franklin, stood down an angry mob. Sampson, disguised as a soldier, fought in the Continental Army

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In general, Gothic works include unusual or strange characters, often abuses or abductions, eerie settings, and beautiful or noble heroes and heroines.

Africa's grandmothers need help in their struggle to support and nurture orphaned grandchildren.

In "Games of Command," RITA award-winning science-fiction author Linnea Sinclair tells a story she describes as a "rip-roaring" space-opera/adventure/romance.

Although she died almost two hundred years ago, the work of this British writer continues to have a huge influence on modern literary and popular culture.

Readers accustomed to redeeming qualities in Jane Austen's heroines may be shocked by the lesser-known but compelling character of Lady Susan, a natural-born deceiver.

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Jane Austen's Regency era heroines were genteel, but these gritty Victorian era heroines rise from the middle and lowest classes. Good books, great reading!

In Valerie Martin's tale of 19th Century plantation life in America's deep South, the narrator, an unhappily married plantation owner's wife, tells her own story.

Mechanic and occasional were-coyote, Mercedes Thompson was raised by werewolves a apprenticed in mechanics by a member of the fae-her life is anything but normal.

Not shy of controversy, Colleen McCullough has created a novel that is sure to strike a nerve with Austen fans.

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In her sixth novel, (Orion 2007), Kate Mosse delivers an exciting, delicately woven tale of tarot, love and betrayal. In 1891 and 2007, two women search for answers.

Brief biography of Simone de Beauvoir, author of The Ethics of Ambiguity and famous for quote "One is not born a woman, one becomes one."

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The most well-known women in Jane Austen's novels change, as Austen's life changes and she grows both as a person and a writer.

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Advice for those trying to write an evolved main character with a book's worth of experience under their belt, though without losing core personality or defining traits

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Armadale is an exciting, complex Victorian novel that examines the role of women, marriage and the individual.

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Daphne Du Maurier's classic Gothic novel Rebecca has now earned the critical acclaim that it deserves. A close reading reveals a Biblical allusion to the Serpent.

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