Silent women

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Divers Women by Mrs. C. M. Livingston

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Rebel women by Evelyn Sharp

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Six Women by Victoria Cross

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Men, Women, and Boats by Stephen Crane

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Regiment of Women by Clemence Dane

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Model Women by William Anderson

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Men, Women, and God by A. Herbert Gray

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Helen Miller Fraser later Helen Moyes (14 September 1881 – 2 December 1979) was a Scottish suffragist, feminist, educationalist and Liberal Party politician who later moved to Australia. During the Great War she worked as a Commissioner for the National War Saving Committee. She was seconded to the

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   Large Format for easy reading. Deals with the difficulties faced by well-educated single middle-class women in Victorian society, the lack of viable opportunities for them and addresses the perception that an unmarried woman is seen as 'odd'.

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A driven passion for revenge, transforms Andrea in to a mid night assassin. The murder of her parents she witnessed haunts her ,she inhreted a curse of extreme strength from her mother . she is determined to devaiour everyone who took her parents to the grave, disgusted as one of the best detectiv

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Betrayed by those she trusted most, Mia Harper's world was shattered in a single night. Once a quiet, unassuming woman, she has now become the embodiment of silent rage. With nothing left to lose, Mia steps into the shadows, carefully plotting her revenge against those who wronged her. In a city wh

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Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen are sisters living in The Midlands in England in the 1910s. Ursula is a teacher, Gudrun an artist. They meet two men who live nearby, school inspector Rupert Birkin and coal-mine heir Gerald Crich, and the four become friends. Ursula and Birkin become involved, and Gudrun

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The Odd Women is an 1893 novel by the English novelist George Gissing. Its themes are the role of women in society, marriage, morals and the early feminist movement.