Books like Diaries, 1915-1918 by Cynthia Asquith

Virginia Woolf’s 1929 essay argues for women writers’ rightful place in a patriarchal literary tradition, using both fictional narrative and lecture recordings.

After an October blizzard, Laura's family retreats from their claim shanty to the nearby town, confronting a harsh winter that a Sioux Indian prophesied will last seven months of relentless bad weather.

The Letters of Vita Sackville‑West to Virginia Woolf compiles over 500 intimate letters spanning 1922‑1941, revealing the courtship, daily life, and literary pursuits of two of England's most celebrated women authors.

Vera Brittain's memoir chronicles her journey from Oxford scholar to wartime nurse, chronicling the loss of a generation and her transformation into a pacifist and feminist.

These diaries cover the years 1910 to 1923, the year before Kafka’s death at the age of forty. They provide a penetrating look into life in Prague and into Kafka’s accounts of his dreams, his feelings for the father he worshipped and the woman he could not bring himself to marry, his sense of guilt, and his feelings of being an outcast. They offer an account of a life of almost unbearable intensity.

Emily Shore’s diaries reveal the social life and customs of an 18‑year‑old English woman, offering a rare glimpse into early Victorian childhood, youth, and family life.

"Witty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures of her day. She published 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman'; travelled to revolutionary France and lived through the Terror and the destruction of the incipient French feminist movement; produced an illegitimate daughter; and married William Godwin before dying in childbed at the age of thirty-eight. Often embattled and bitterly disappointed, she never gave up her radical ideas or her belief that courage and honesty would triumph over convention."--Back cover.

Contains primary source material.

Harriet Martineau’s autobiography offers a detailed, sensitive chronicle of a 19th‑century English woman whose work spanned sociology, economics, and social reform.

Lyndall Gordon defends Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759‑1797, founder of modern feminism, by painting her vibrant portrait and correcting her historical reputation.

Isobel Grundy is the first to examine in detail Lady Mary's family situation and social relationships, or to situate Montagu's writing life in relation to both tradition and innovation, to enlightenment circles and political agendas, and to the emerging tradition of women's writing, in which she herself was a key figure. Grundy highlights Lady Mary's adolescent longing for literary fame, her growing understanding of the pressures of class and gender imperatives on such upstart desires, her conflicted negotiations with manuscript culture and the new world of print, the punitive responses of society, the deep dissonance at every stage of her life between her actual circumstances and the constructed self of her letters and other writings. She also situates Montagu's work in the context of her exceptionally wide reading in both men's and women's texts, and her own theorizing of her social world.

A memoir by Antonia Fraser that chronicles her 33‑year marriage to playwright Harold Pinter, offering intimate insights into their shared life and the literary world.