(Auto)biographies, diaries, or memoirs of historical women that I've read and given at least 3 stars. Happy reading!
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last updated January, 2026
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Joan D. Hedrick
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Robert K. Massie
The Journals of Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
Alison Weir
Elizabeth I
Anne Somerset
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugénie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe
Nancy Goldstone
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
Leah Redmond Chang
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Life? or Theatre?
Charlotte Salomon
The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters
Charlotte Mosley
A Fine Old Conflict
Jessica Mitford
Hons and Rebels
The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things
Paula Byrne
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Caroline Fraser
American Indian Stories (Modern Library Torchbearers)
Zitkála-Šá Zitkála-Šá
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life
Clare Carlisle
Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
Amanda Foreman
The Book of Margery Kempe
Margery Kempe
We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals
Gillian Gill
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
Heather Clark
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