Diana Souhami | Gertrude and Alice | They were the talk of Paris, photographed by Beaton and Man Ray, painted by Picasso and written about by Hemingway. ‘Perfect… and witty… Souhani b
McRae-McMahon Dorothy | Memoirs Of Moving On | Faith, passion and resilience have been the hallmarks of Dorothy McRae-McMahon’s extraordinary life. Now 70, her memoirs begin with growing up in drou
Joan Schenkar | Truly Wilde | She was lovely, sophisticated, and famous for her witty conversation, even in a social circle that was known for its fabulous talkers. The only child
Gertrude Stein | Picasso | For more than a generation, Gertrude Stein’s Paris home at 27 rue de Fleurus was the center of a glittering coterie of artists and writers, one of who
Peggy Caserta; Dan Knapp | Going Down With Janis | This is the raw and scathing portrait of Janis Joplin by her female lover. This book recounts those harrowing days when these two women were just hipp
Jyl Lynn Felman | Cravings | In the essays contained in Cravings: A Sensual Memoir, writer and performance artist Jyl Lynn Felman looks at desire not in the abstract, but i
Lady Eleanor Butler; Sarah Ponsonby; Elizabeth Mavor | Life With The Ladies Of Llangollen | The ‘Ladies of Llangollen’, Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, were two upper-class Irish women whose cohabitation shocked and intrigued contemporary
