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From the NWHA Archives and Library Collections 

Women of the World Collection (3 books)

The Autobiography of Maud Gonne- A Servant of the Queen by Maud Gonne
edited by Norman Jeffares and Anna MacBrude Whites
Maud Gonne is a pivotal figure in Irish history: her founding of the Daughters of Ireland in 1900 was a key step that effectively opened the door to twentieth-century politics for Irish women. Still remembered in Ireland for the inspiring public speeches she made on behalf of the suffering—those evicted from their homes in western Ireland, the Treason-Felony prisoners on the Isle of Wight, indeed all those whom she saw as victims of imperialism—she is known, too, within and outside Ireland as the woman W. B. Yeats loved and celebrated in his poems. Paper, illustrated, pub. March 17, 1995,  406 pages

Virginia Woolf and Her World by John Lehmann 
Since she died in 1941, Virginia Woolf has come to be recognized as one of the supreme prose writers of the twentieth century. In the thirty years between her marriage to Leonard Woolf in 1912 and her death, she wrote fifteen books, including the epoch-making novels To the Lighthouse and The Waves, as well as innumerable critical articles, essays, and stories, and a voluminous and astonishing achievement for a writer who was plagued by mental illness all through her life. Virginia Woolf is honored today not only as a novelist and literary critic of the most varied gifts, but also as the author of A Room of One's Own, with little doubt the most brilliantly argued, witty, and persuasive exposition of the feminist standpoint in modern times. John Lehmann, poet, critic, biographer, and editor, worked for many years with the Hogarth Press, the publishing firm founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf in 1917.
Paper, 125 pages, pub.1975

West with the Night: A Memoir by Beryl Markham
Beryl Markham's West with the Night is a true classic. This book deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and Isak Dinesen.
If the first responsibility of a memoirist is to lead a life worth writing about, Markham succeeded beyond all measure. Born Beryl Clutterbuck in the middle of England, she and her father moved to Kenya when she was a girl, and she grew up with a zebra for a pet; horses for friends; baboons, lions, and gazelles for neighbors. She made money by scouting elephants from a tiny plane. And she would spend most of the rest of her life in East Africa as an adventurer, a racehorse trainer, and an aviatrix — she became the first person to fly nonstop from Europe to America and the first woman to fly solo east to west across the Atlantic. Hers was indisputably a life full of adventure and beauty.
Paperback, 291 pages,  January 22, 2013

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