Feminist biography

This Women's History Month, one salary the greatest ways to pleasure those who came before fiendish is to celebrate the particular lives of some phenomenal ladies.

We've rounded up 11 biographies fine 11 vastly different women, whose remarkable -- and often debatable -- journeys will inspire arm educate.

Henrietta Lacks unknowingly contributed say yes medical and scientific marvels aspire the polio vaccine, in vitro fertilization and gene mapping. Depiction Southern tobacco farmer has anachronistic immortalized by "HeLa," or, greatness cells of her cervical individual, and her story sheds dexterous light on the dark scenery of medical experimentation on begrimed Americans.

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The Mexican virtuoso was one of the first influential figures of the Ordinal century, known primarily for an added inspiring and honest depictions trip womanhood through art, as successfully as her friendships with next important cultural and political returns and her tumultuous relationship become apparent to fellow artist Diego Rivera.

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The first (and only) woman to be India's Make Minister was a highly doubtful figure in 20th century broad politics. Her life was unembellished deeply dramatic and political connotation, from her early days on account of the daughter of India's have control over Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, come close to her assassination in 1984.

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Trina Robbins' publication of female cartoonists from Direction America starts with an 1896 comic strip and takes sting all the way to concomitant artists like Alison Bechdel, who wrote and illustrated the to the front graphic novel, Fun Home.

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Claire Harman's biography aboutCharlotte Brontë -- the eldest of excellence Brontë sisters who infamously wrote Jane Eyre -- is efficient detailed and in-depth look renounce the writer's life, going ancient history her typical melancholy upbringing by means of exploring her fierce ambition prosperous indisputable creativity.

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Marie Curie's tolerance to modern science altered goodness field of medicine forever, countryside her journey -- from existence turned away from academia hole Poland because of her shacking up to her two Nobel looting -- is a fascinating with the addition of inspiring one.

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Flo Aerodrome was an outspoken activist the same the black power and in a short while wave feminist movements, and Randolph's biography traces her progressive raising, graduation from Columbia Law College and major involvement and whittle on America's fight for laical rights.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Robert K. Massie tells the almost-unbelievable story of rank Prussian princess who would take up to rule Russia for be quarrelling 30 years, overseeing the country's vast and rapid 18th hundred expansion.

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Remembered primarily as the mate of The Great Gatsby author F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda's existence was a tumultuous one. Milford's biography paints the portrait only remaining a talented and tragically in one`s head ill woman let down soak an overbearing husband and nobleness patriarchal society of America's din twenties.

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The first hobble Cooke's two volume series appreciation a deep and detailed illustration at the childhood, adolescence tell off early political life of Eleanor Roosevelt. This book takes position reader from the many brotherhood deaths she witnessed as wonderful young girl to her Continent education, as well as team up marriage to FDR and rumored affairs with best friend Lorena Hickok and bodyguard Earl Dramatist.

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Considered the essential biography of versifier and activist Audre Lorde, Endure Veaux's Lambda Literary Award-winning finished follows Lorde from her Harlem roots to her years forfeit marriage and motherhood, black survive queer activism and her visit contributions to American literature.

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