Daisy Dunn’s Curated List
By Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Daisy Dunn’s Curated List
By Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Daisy Dunn is an award-winning classicist and author of The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through The Women Who Shaped It (published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson on 23 May 2024). Here she selects eight other books which offer a powerful female lens onto the world we have known.
The Missing Thread: A New History of the Ancient World Through the Women Who Shaped It
Daisy Dunn
£25.00 £23.75
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang
£9.99 £9.49A haunting, often upsetting, but also inspiring portrait of modern China told through the extraordinary life stories of three generations of women.
Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
£16.99 £16.14There is a wild woman in all of us, argues Jungian psychoanalyst Estés, but she needs to be found and nurtured. An intriguing exploration of this instinct via countless women’s stories.
Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit
Lady Antonia Fraser
£9.99 £9.49The woman who became best known as the histrionic lover of Lord Byron was a talented author who borrowed her brother’s clothes to sneak into the House of Commons. Her biography provides special insight into the male-dominated world of power and privilege in the 19th century.
The Voices of Nimes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc
University of Roehampton) Lipscomb Professor of History Suzannah (Professor of History
£15.99There are few traces of ordinary women of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the historical record. Lipscomb uses evidence from moral courts of the Huguenot church to resurrect the lives of many otherwise unknown women living in France in this period.
The Enchanted April
Elizabeth Von Arnim
£8.99 £8.54Four women embark on a spring-time holiday in Italy away from their husbands, suitors and pasts. The sense of liberation they enjoy abroad says so much about women’s stifled lives in 1920’s Britain. Beautifully written.
Going with the Boys: Six Extraordinary Women Writing from the Front Line
Judith Mackrell
£10.99 £10.44A vivid reminder that women also risked their lives during the Second World War. From Martha Gellhorn to Lee Miller, the female war correspondents examined in this book were both fearless and talented.
The Golden Notebook
Doris Lessing
£10.99 £10.44First published in 1962, Lessing’s classic novel is structured around the collection of notebooks kept by Anna Wulf, and their culmination in her life story. A truly seminal book.
Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby
Elaine Showalter and English Showalter
£25.00 £23.75The question of how to balance family life with writing preoccupied Vera Brittain, author of the bestselling Testament of Youth. Her dependence upon her friend and fellow writer Winifred Holtby is evident in this sparkling collection of their correspondence.