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Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster
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Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
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The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici
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Matilda: Empress, Queen, Warrior
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The Serpent and the Moon: Two Rivals for the Love of a Renaissance King
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The Kings' Mistresses: The Liberated Lives of Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna, and Her Sister Hortense, Duchess Mazarin
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Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
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The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice
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3.85 avg rating — 442 ratings
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Passionate Minds: Emilie du Chatelet, Voltaire, and the Great Love Affair of the Enlightenment
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Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings
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Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric
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The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis
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3.41 avg rating — 372 ratings
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Pirate Queens: Dauntless Women Who Dared to Rule the High Seas
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Granuaile: Grace O'Malley, Ireland's Pirate Queen
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3.49 avg rating — 1,111 ratings
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Writing and Madness in a Time of Terror
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Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting
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She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
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The Mistress of Paris
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American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans
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3.59 avg rating — 1,761 ratings
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Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century
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Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
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Queens of the Conquest (England’s Medieval Queens, #1)
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Lucrezia Tornabuoni de’ Medici and The Medici Family in the Fifteenth Century
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Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster
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The Courtesans: The Demi-Monde in Nineteenth-Century France
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The Lost Queen: The Life & Tragedy of the Prince Regent's Daughter
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The Covent Garden Ladies: Pimp General Jack & The Extraordinary Story of Harris' List
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Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy
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Isabella: The Warrior Queen
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The Courtesan’s Revenge
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Wild Irish Women
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The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily
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Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland's History-Making Race Around the World
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Nell Gwyn: Mistress to a King
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Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
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I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries, 1791-1840
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Murder of a Medici Princess
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography
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England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton
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The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World
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Other Powers: The Age of Suffrage, Spiritualism, and the Scandalous Victoria Woodhull
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Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France
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Privilege and Scandal: The Remarkable Life of Harriet Spencer, Sister of Georgiana
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Infinite Variety: The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati
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Wild Girls: Paris, Sappho, and Art: The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks
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Warrior Women: An Archaeologist's Search for History's Hidden Heroines
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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
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3.63 avg rating — 13,198 ratings
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The Unruly Queen: The Life of Queen Caroline
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City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920
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Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore
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Mistress of the Elgin Marbles: A Biography of Mary Nisbet, Countess of Elgin – A Vibrant Narrative from Her Own Letters About Diplomacy, Napoleon, and Scandal
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The Lady in Red: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal, and Divorce
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Wedlock
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Maria Fitzherbert: The Secret Wife of George IV
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King's Mistress: The True and Scandalous Story of the Woman Who Stole the Heart of George I
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The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues
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