Book Discussion: Almost Famous Women

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Almost Famous Women by Megan Mayhew Bergman is a really interesting collection of short stories based on real women. Most of whom Jade had never even heard of! Don't expect happy endings in these tales but expect to find strong-willed and vivacious women. 

Further reading! (As seen in the Author's Note)
The Queen of Whale Cay - Kate Summerscale
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Not So Quiet: Stepdaughters of War - Helen Zenna Smith
Savage Beauty - Nancy Milford
The Women of Provincetown - Cheryl Black
What Lips My Lips Have Kissed - Daniel Mark Epstein
Collected Poetry - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Collected Letters - edited by Allan Ross MacDougall (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Wild Heart - Suzanne Rodriguez
Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation - Noel Riley Fitch
Between Life and Me - Meryle Secrest (out of print bio, might be hard to find!)
Amazons in the Drawing Room - Whitney Chadwick
Byron: Child of Passion, Fool of Fame - Benita Eisler
Oscaria - Natalie Clifford Barney (privately printed)
Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake - Carol Loeb Shloss
Truly Wilde - Joan Schenkar
The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde - Neil McKenna
Oscar Wilde - Richard Ellmann
West with the Night - Beryl Markham
Straight on Till Morning: The Life of Beryl Markham - Mary S. Lovell
The Lives of Beryl Markham - Errol Trzebinski
The Ghosts of Happy Valley - Juliet Barnes
The Lottery - Shirley Jackson
The International Sweethearts of Rhythm: The Ladies Jazz Band from Piney Woods Country Life School  - D. Antoinette Handy
Tiny and Ruby: Hell-Divin' Women documentary - Jezebel Productions
Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy - Carolyn Burke
The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall
Women of the Left Bank - Shari Benstock
Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
Ladies Almanack - Djuna Barnes

See you in the stacks!

Sarah, Gina & Jade

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