Marilyn French: 13 books
The Women of Marilyn French
Her Mother's Daughter, Our Father, and The Bleeding Heart
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Three powerful novels about family and the female experience from the multimillion-selling author of The Women’s Room.
A collection of three works of fiction by a New York Times–bestselling author who “write[s] about the inner lives of women with insight and intimacy” (The New York...
Jenseits der Macht
Frauen, Männer und Moral
Language: German
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Die Geschichte der Menschheit ist zugleich und vor allem eine Geschichte der männlichen Macht, die vor Jahrtausenden mit den ersten Schritten zur Beherrschung der Natur einsetzte und sich heute angesichts der apokalyptischen Aura am Horizont der abendländischen Zivilisation einem verderblichen Ende...
From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World Volume II
The Masculine Mystique from Feudalism to the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
“Filled with fascinating detail . . . this second volume of French’s massive and valuable work is an example of scholarship and clear vision.” —Publishers Weekly
This volume of New York Times–bestselling author Marilyn French’s monumental history analyzes and evaluates the lives...
A Season in Hell
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
An extraordinary memoir on facing death . . . and choosing life
Where there’s a will . . .
Given a death sentence after being diagnosed with cancer, Marilyn French fought back . . . and won. A Season in Hell is the story of her battle to survive against overwhelming odds.
A...
From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World Volume III
Infernos and Paradises: The Triumph of Capitalism in the 19th Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
From the New York Times–bestselling author: “A rare find: a page-turning, can’t-put-it-down history text.” —Library Journal
Writing about what she calls the “most cheering period in female history,” Marilyn French recounts how nineteenth-century women living under imperialism,...
From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World Volume IV
Revolutions and the Struggles for Justice in the 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
The conclusion of the “remarkable” four-volume history by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Women’s Room (Publishers Weekly).
In the twentieth century, women became a force for change, in part through suffrage, and in part through mass organizing. This final volume of Marilyn...
From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women in the World Volume I
From Prehistory to the First Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
The first volume of the New York Times–bestselling author’s monumental and unprecedented history: “Consistently thought-provoking” (The New York Review of Books).
The internationally celebrated author of The Women’s Room, Marilyn French spent over fifteen years with a team of researchers...
Her Mother's Daughter
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Famed feminist Marilyn French’s life-affirming saga celebrates the love and sacrifices of four generations of Polish-American mothers and daughters.
With Bella Dabrowski close to death, her daughter Anastasia, who has reinvented herself as Stacey Stevens, is trying to penetrate the longstanding...
by Marilyn French
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
A girl comes of age in the radical 1960s in this “beautifully written” novel by the groundbreaking author of The Women’s Room (Kate Mosse).
It’s 1968 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Jess Leighton, the daughter of a temperamental painter and a proto-feminist Harvard professor, is struggling...
My Summer with George
A Novel of Love at a Certain Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
An unapologetically romantic novel about a woman who finds love in middle age
After four marriages and numerous affairs, famed author Hermione Beldame doesn’t expect real life to play out like her bestselling romance novels. So she’s stunned when she meets George Johnson at a party and...
Our Father
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
**New York Times–bestselling author of The Women’s Room: While a man lies in the hospital, his four daughters struggle to make peace with him—and one another.
In a Massachusetts hospital, as distinguished presidential adviser Stephen Upton lies mortally ill, four women gather at his lavish...
by Marilyn French
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
“Mira was hiding in the ladies’ room. She called it that, even though someone had scratched out the word ladies’ in the sign on the door, and written women’s underneath…” So begins the famous feminist novel that follows the transformation of Mira Ward and her circle as the women’s movement begins to have an impact on their lives.
The Bleeding Heart
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
A novel of second love between Americans abroad—“a monumental achievement” from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Women’s Room (Cosmopolitan).
Dolores Durer, a divorced English professor and the mother of two adult children, has sworn off love after a series of disastrous...