17 Fascinating Biographies About Women You Didn't Learn About in School

Celebrate Women's History Month with a biography about an under-recognized historical woman.

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Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan
Empress Dowager Cixi
Madam
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Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan
Empress Dowager Cixi
4.1
Madam
3.7
Love, Activism, and the Respectable Life of Alice Dunbar-Nelson
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days
The Woman They Could Not Silence
4.1
Walk with Me
Agent Sonya
4.4
The Indomitable Florence Finch
Odetta
What Stars Are Made Of
Daughters of Chivalry
4.3
Wally Funk's Race for Space
L. E. L.
Madame Fourcade's Secret War
4.4
Red Hot Mama
Renoir's Dancer

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