 | The Selected Writings of Christine De Pizan (Norton Critical Editions) by Christine de Pizan
Buy new: $12.60 / Used from: $4.23 A little bit more than memoir. Her autobiography is a fascinating look at life in the 1400s.
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 | Apron Full of Gold: The Letters of Mary Jane Megquier from San Francisco 1849-1856
Buy used from: $0.97 Letters of a Maine native during her three journeys to California during the Gold Rush. Look for the Kaufman edition.
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 | The Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir of a Woman and Her Children Who Explored the Coastal Waters of the Pacific Northwest (Adventura Books) by M. Wylie Blanchet
Buy used from: $14.91 Memoirs of a woman who explored the Pacific Northwest in a boat with her children.
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 | Personal History by Katharine Graham
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.01 Through her role on the Washington Post, Graham helped create history as well as record it.
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 | War Within & Without: Diaries And Letters Of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944 (Harvest Book) by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Buy new: $26.00 / Used from: $1.24 Probably the most fascinating edition of her journals. It looks at the pre-war period in the US from the point of view of people who opposed US involvement.
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 | The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Penguin Classics) by Peter Abelard
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.35 More than just a love story-- church and life in the 12th century
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 | Buggies, Blizzards, and Babies (Iowa Heritage Collection) by Cora Frear Hawkins
Buy used from: $1.75 Memoir of a daughter of a country doctor in the US. An underrated gem of a book.
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| My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of 4 Years Personal Experience As Nurse in the Union Army (American Women: Images and Realities) by Mary A. Livermore
Buy used from: $47.89 Mary Livermore was a journalist, suffragette, and abolitionist. This book is the memoir of her time during the Civil War working in the US Sanitary Commission. Fascinating look at another side of the Civil War.
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 | Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda by Rosamond Halsey Carr
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $1.94 Not the strongest book on this list, but interesting both as Autobiography and for what she saw during her life in Rwanda.
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 | Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa by Antjie Krog
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $3.69 Krog discusses her role as witness during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in the New South Africa. Feelings about her own history as an Afrikaanse woman are woven in with the stories of the testimony.
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 | Journey into the Whirlwind (Helen and Kurt Wolff Books) by Eugenia Ginzburg
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $1.17 Compelling and inspiring memoir of the time that the author spent in prison and Siberian exile as a result of the Stalinist terror. An amazing book.
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 | Land below the wind by Agnes Newton Keith
Buy used from: $13.00 Keith lived in Borneo with her husband during the 1930s and 1940s. A very interesting look at the changing society of that time.
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| The Prime of Life: The Autobiography of Simone De Beauvoir by Simone de Beauvoir
Buy used from: $11.95 Volume two of de Beauvoir's four part autobiography. So far, they're all worth reading in their own right, but this volume is particularly interesting for its look at occupation France and the political thought leading up to the war.
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