Letters of Great Women

by Lucinda Hawksley

Letters of Great Women is a collection of the most inspiring and compelling correspondence from remarkable women through history. Including 50 letters from figures in the arts, politics, entertainment, activism and the military, historian Lucinda Hawksley has carefully selected diverse, extraordinary dispatches from women across all walks of life, from all around the world.

Composed of biographical synopses, fascinating images and the transcribed letters themselves, Letters of Great Women opens a portal to some of the most significant moments and burning issues in global history, as well as the everyday joys, sorrows and struggles of women's lives.

Genres: Nonfiction

224 pages, Hardcover

Published October 14, 2021

About the author

Lucinda Hawksley is a British biographer, author and lecturer. She is the great-great-great-granddaughter of Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine. Hawksley is an award-winning travel writer.
She also writes under the name Lucinda Dickens Hawksley.

Reviews

[Michael Kerjman · Rating 2 out of 5]

Understandably, a selection of "great women" and such definition itself reflect very personal views of the author accomplishing the titanic comprehending of an epochal length.

However, not many real heroines, from outside an anglosphere surely, made it into "greatness" here, while memorizing Greta Thunberg among them is just a biiiiiig credit.

[Ashley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Loved the biographies of the women that accompanied the letter each one wrote. Some of the women I had heard of and others I enjoyed learning about. All contributed so much to the world.

[Ashley A. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Loved the biographies of the women that accompanied the letter each one wrote. Some of the women I had heard of and others I enjoyed learning about. All contributed so much to the world.