Women: books for and about women

Our Women's CD contains 230 books, including Books about Women in General, Biographies of Women, Advice and Activities for Women, and Women's Health. intended for Windows and Linux PCs and recent Macs (OS X).

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), our books are in plain-text format, not audio or video. You read them on your computer screen.

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Table of Contents:

Books about Women in General

• An American Suffragette (a novel) by Isaac N. Stevens, 1911
• American Thumbprints: Mettle of Our Men and Women by Kate Stephens
• Appeal to the Christian Women of the South by Angelina Emily Grimke
• Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times by Alice Duer Miller
• At Home and Abroad by Margaret Fuller Ossoli
• Ce Que Vaut une Femme, Traite d'Education Morale et Pratique des Jeunes Filles by Mademoiselle E. Roch, 1888
• Debate on Woman Suffrage in the US Senate 1886-1887
• Democracy and Social Ethics by Jane Addams
• Different Girls, edited by William Dean Howells and Henry Mills Alden
• Divers Women by Pansy and Mrs. C.M. Livingstone
• Domestic Manners of the Americans by Frances Milton (Fanny) Trollope (1832)
• Female Suffrage by Susan Fenimore Cooper
• The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women by John Knox, 1558
• Friendships of Women by William Rounceville Alger
• From a Girl's Point of View by Lilian Bell, 1897
• Girlhood and Womanhood by Sarah Tytler
• Girls and Women by E. Chester (AKA Harriet Paine)
• The God-Idea of the Ancients or Sex in Religion by Eliza Burt Gamble
• Herland by Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman
• In Defense of Women by H.L. Mencken
• The Joys of Being a Woman by Winifred Kirkland
• The Legal Status of Women in Iowa by Jennie Wilson
• Letters on Sweden, Norway, and Denmark by Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
• The London Bawd, anonymous, 1705
• Maria or the Wrongs of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
• Mary by Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin
• Mobilizing Woman-Power by Harriot Stanton Blatch, 1918
• A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil by Jane Addams
• The Pleasures of a Single Life or the Miseris of Matrimony by anonymous
• The Power of Womanhood or Mothers and Sons, a book for parents by Ellice Hopkins
• A Practical Illustration of "Woman's Right to Labor" by Marie Zakrzewska
• Samantha on the Woman Question by Marietta Holly
• A Sermon Preached on the Anniversary of the Boston Female Asylum for Destitute Orphans, Sept. 25, 1835 by Jonathan M. Wainwright
• A Short History of Women's Rights by Eugene A. Hecker

The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets by Jane Adams
• The Torch Bearer -- a Look Forward and Back at the Woman's Journal, the organ of the Woman's Movement by Agnes Ryan
• The Trade Union Woman by Alice Henry
• The True Woman by Rev. J.D. Fulton, 1869
• The Unexpurgated Case Against Women's Suffrage by Almroth Wright
• A Vindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft
• What Eight Million Women Want by Rheta Childe Corr, 1910
• What Great Men Have Said About Women
• Woman and Womanhood by Dr. C.W. Saleeby
• Woman on the American Frontier by William Fowler
• Woman and the New Race by Margaret Sanger, 1920
• Woman Man's Equal by Thomas Webster
• Woman Suffrage by Federal Constitutional Amerndment, compiled by Carrie Chapman Catt, 1917
• The Woman's Bible by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1898
• Woman's Endurance, by the chaplain in the South African concentration camp at Bethule
• Woman's Life in Colonial Days by Carl Holliday
• Woman's Work in Music by Arthur Elson
• Women and Politics by Charles Kingsley
• Women of the Arabs by Henry Harris Jessup
• Women of the Caesars by Guglielmo Ferrero
• Women of Modern France by Hugo Thieme
• Women of the Romance Countries by John Effinger
• Women and War Work by Helen Fraser
• Women in the Fine Arts by Clara Erskine Clement, 1904
• Women Wage-Earners by Helen Fraser
• The Women Who Came in the Mayflower by Annie Russell Marble
• Women Workers in Seven Professions by Edith Morley
• Women's Wild Oats -- Essays on the Re-Fixing of Moral Standards by C. Gasquoine Hartley
• Working with the Working Woman by Cornelia Stratton Parker, 1922
• Woman's Work in the Civil War by L.P. Brockett, 1867

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Biographies of Women

• Annals and Reminiscences of Jamaica Plain by Harriet manning Whitcomb, 1897
• Anne Bradstreet and Her Time by Helen Campbell
• Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi, 1861
• Beacon Lights of History, volume 7, Great Women by John Lord
• Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell by Charlotte Bronte
• A Brief Memoir of Eliza Southall, 1869
• The Case of Edith Cavell, a Study of the rights of non-combatants by James Beck
• Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle  by Clement K. Shorter
• Clara A. Swain M.D. -- First Medical Missionary to the Women of the Orient by Mrs. Robert Hoskins, 1912
• The Daughter of an Empress by Louise Muhlbach
• Diary Written in a Provincial Lunatic Asylum by Mary Huestis Pengilly, 1885
• Diary of Anna Green Winslow, a Boston School Girl of 1771 edited by Alcie Morse Earle
• Diary of an Ennuyee by Mrs. Jameson, 1836
• Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front 1914-1915
• Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• The Empress Josephine by Louise Muhlbach
• The Ethics of George Eliot's Works by John Crombie Brown
• Female Scripture Biography by Francis Augustus Cox
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Femmes de la Revolution by J. Michelet
• From Childhood to Girlhood Marie Bashkitseff
• George Eliot: a Critical Study by George Willis Cooke
• George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings by Rene Doumic, translated by Alys Hallard
• A Girl Among the Anarchists by Isabel Meredith
• The Grimke Sisters -- First American Women Advocates of Abolitoin and Woman's Rights by Catherine Birney, 1885
• Historic Girls: Stories of Girls Who Have Influenced the History of Their Times by E.S. Brooks
• Hortense by John S.C. Abbott, 1902
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by herself
• Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters, a Family Record by William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leign
• Joan of Arc by Lord Ronald Gower, 1893
• Kansas Women in Literature by Nettie Garmer Barker
• The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Charles Edward Stowe (her son)
• The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, volume 1  by Ida Husted Harper
• Life of Charlotte Bronte by Elizabeth Gaskell
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth edited by Augustus Hare (1834-1903)
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos
• The Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane by Herself [Marthy Carnary Burk] (article)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, volume 2, Homes of Famous Women, by Elbert Hubbard
• Louisa of Prussia by Louise Muhlbach
• Lucretia Borgia by Ferdinand Gregorvius
• Marie Antoinette and her Son by Louise Muhlbach
• Mary Wollstonecraft by Elizabeth Robins Pennell, 1890
• A Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh
• Memoirs by Margaret Fuller Ossoli
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Memoirs of the Author of a Vindicationof the Rights of Woman by William Godwin
• Memoirs by  Marguerite de Valois (1492-1549) Queen of Navarre
• Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin
• Memoires de Madame la Marquise de la Rochjaquelein
• Memories, a Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War by Mrs. Fannie a. Beers
• Mrs. Shelley by Lucy Madox Rossetti
• Notable Women of Modern China by Margaret Burton
• Notable Women of Olden Time
• Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay by Emma Roberts, 1841
• Princess Pocahontas by Virginia Watson
• Queen Victoria by E. Gordon Browne
• Records of a Girlhood by Frances Ann Kemblelf, Linda Brent
• Six Women by Victoria Cross
• The Story of a Pioneer by Anna Howard Shaw
• The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life 1875-1912 by L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone
• Susan B. Anthony by Alma Lutz
• Ten American Girls from History by Kate Dickinson Sweetser
• Ten Girls from Dickens by Kate Sweetser
• Twenty Years at Hull House by Jane Addams
• Two Decards (1874-1894), a History of the First Twenty Years' Work of the Woman's Christian Tempreance Union of the State of new York by Frances W. Graham and Georgeanna M. Gardenier
• Use and Need of the Life of Carrie A. Nation by Carrie A. Nation
• Voyage dans l'Aurès: Notes d'un médecin envoyé en mission chez les femmes arabes
• Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida by F. Sydney Morris, 1884
• The Woman Who Toils: being the experiences of two gentlewomen as factory girls by Mrs. John Van Vorst
• A Woman's Impressions of the Philippines by Mary Fee
• A Woman's Journey Round the World by Ida Pfeiffer
• A Woman's Journey through the Philippines by Florence Kimball Russel
• A Woman's Life-Work by Laura Haviland

Advice and Activities for Women

• 52 Story Talks to Boys and Girls by Rev. Howard Chidley, 1914
• Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women by G.S. Weaver
• The American Frugal Housewife by Mrs. Child, 1832
• The Art of of Interior Decoration by Grace Wood and Emily Burbank, 1917
• Beeton's Book of Needlework
• Bits About Home Matters by Helen Hunt Jackson (H.H.), 1873
• The Book of Household Management by Mrs. Isabella Beeta (1860-1861)
• Business Hints for Men and Women by Alfred Rochefort Calhoun
• The Business of Being a Woman by Ida Tarbell
• Cheerfulness as a Life Power by Orison Swett Marden, 1899
• The Complete Home edited by Clara E. Laughlin, 1907
• The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm by R. Bradley
• Domestic Pleasures by T.B. Vaux
• A Domestic Problem: Work and Culture in the Household by Mrs. A.M. Diaz
• The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking by Helen Campbell, 1903
• The Education of Catholic Girls by Janet Erskine Stuart
• Entertaining Made Easy by Emily Rose Burt, 1919
• Essays on Various Subjects, principally designed for young ladies by Hannah More (1745-1837)
• The Ethics of the Dust: Ten Lectures to Little Housewives by John Ruskin (1875)
• Fowler's Household Helps, over 300 useful and valuable helps about the home, carefully compiled and arranged in convenient form for frequent use
• The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger, 1868
• From a Girl's Point of View by Lillian Bell, 1897
• Furnishing the Home of Good Taste by Lucy Abbot Throop, 1920
• The Girl's Cabinet of Instructive and Moral Stories by Uncle Philip
• Girls' Faults and Ideals by J.R. Miller
• The Golden Censer or the Duties of To-Day and the Hopes of Future by John McGovern, 1884
• Golden Steps to Respectability, Usefulness, and Happiness
• The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book, TWelve Steps to a Happy Marriage, edited by William F. Bigelow
• The Handy Cyclopdia of Things Worth Knowing. A Manual of Ready Reference
• Happiness and Marriage by Elizabeth Towne (1904)
• Herself, Talks with Women Concerning Themselves by E.B. Lowry, 1917
• Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! Helps for Girls, in School and Out by Annie H. Ryder (1896)
• The House in Good Taste by Elsie de Wolfe, 1913
• How to Prepare and Serve a Meal and Interior Decoration by Lillian B. Lansdown
• Journalism for Women by E.A. Bennett
• Ladies Must Live by Alice Duer Miller
• The Ladies' Vase or Polite Manual for Young Ladies by an American Lady, 1849
• The Ladies' Work-Book, Containing Instructions in Knitting, Crochet, Point-lace, etc.
• The Lady's Album of Fancy Work for 1850
• Lawn Tennis for Ladies by Mrs. Lambert Chambers
• Making Both Ends Meet: the Income and Outlay of New York Working Girls by Sue Ainslie Clark and Edith Wyatt, 1911
• Manners and Conduct in School and Out by the Dean of Girls in Chicago High Schools, 1921
• Manners and Social Usages by Mrs. John Sherwood (1887)
• Marriage and Love by Mary Baker Eddy
• The Maternal Management of Children by Thomas Bull
• The Mother and Her Child by William Sadler
• Mrs. Whittelsey's magazine for Mothers and Daughters edited by Mrs. A.G. Whittelsey, volume 3, 1852
• A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies
• Notes on Nursing by Florence Nightingale
• Our Deportment, or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society by John H. Young, 1881
• Parent and Child, volume 3, by Mosiah Hall
• The Pleasures of a Single Life or the Miseries of Matrimony, 1709
• Poise and How to Attain It by D. Starke, 1916
• The Power of Womanhood or Mothers and Sons, a Book for Parents and Those in Loco Parentis by Ellice Hopkins, 1899
• A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females by Harvey Newcomb
• Practical Suggestions for Mother and Housewife by Maria Mills Miller
• Principles of Home Decoration with Practical Examples by Candace Wheeler, 1903
• The Secret of a Happy Home by Marion Harland, 1896
• The Spinster Book by Myrtle Reed, 1907
• Stray Thoughts for Girls by L.H.M. Soulsby, 1903
• Wanted a Young Woman to do Housework: Business Principles Applied to Hosuework by C. Helene Barker, 1915
• The Wedding Day, the Service, the Marriage Certificate, Words of Counsel edited by John F. Hurst, 1889What Dress Makes of Us by Dorothy Quigley, 1897
• Woman as Decoration by Emily Burbank
• Woman in Modern Society by Earl Barnes
• A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, 1904
• Woman and Womanhood by Dr. C.W. Saleeby, 1911
• Women and the Alphabet by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1881
• The Young Lady's Mentor by A Lady, 1852
• The Young Madien by A.B. Muzzey, 1848
• The Young Mother by William Alcott, 1836
• The Young Woman's Guide by William Alcott

Women's Health

• Conception Control and Its Effects on the Individual and the Nation by Florence Barrett M.D., 1922
• The Eugenic Marriage, a Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies by W. Grant Hague
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• volume 4
• The Four Epoch's of a Woman's Life: a Study in Hygiene by Anna Galbraith
• The Fun of Getting Thin by Samuel Blythe, 1912
• Nerves and Common Sense by Annie Payson Call
• Remarks on the Subject of Lactation by Edawrd Morton, 1831
• Safe Marriage, a Return to Sanity by Ettie A. Rout
• Sex and Common Sense by A. Maude Royden
• Social Emergency, Studies in Sex Hygiene and Morals edited by William Trufant Foster, 1914
• Woman, Her Sex and Love Life by William J. Robinson, 1917
• Youth and Sex: Dangers and Safeguards for Girls and Boys by Mary Scharlieb, 1919