The Mistresses of Cliveden: Three Centuries of Scandal, Power and Intrigue in an English Stately Home

Wedlock

Wendy Moore · 386 pages

With the death of her fabulously wealthy coal magnate father when she was just eleven, Mary Eleanor Bowes became the richest heiress in Britain. An ancestor of Queen Elizabeth II, Mary grew to be a highly educated young woman, winning acclaim as a playwright and botanist. Courted by a bevy of eager suitors, at eighteen she married the handsome but aloof ninth Earl of Strathmore in a celebrated, if

The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty that Armed Germany at War

William Manchester · 1,022 pages

The Rothschilds

Virginia Cowles · 304 pages

A comprehensive history of three generations of the Rothschilds, and their influence across two generations of European history.

Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey

Fiona Carnarvon

The House of Rothschild, Vol 1: Money's Prophets, 1798-1848

Niall Ferguson · 596 pages

This second volume of Niall Ferguson's acclaimed, landmark history of the legendary Rothschild banking dynasty concludes his myth-breaking portrait of one of the most powerful and fascinating families of modern times. With all the depth, clarity and drama with which he traced the Rothschild's ascent, Ferguson shows how their power waned as conflicts from Crimea to the Second World War repeatedly t

The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery

Catherine Bailey · 400 pages

The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance

Paul Strathern · 430 pages

The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters

Anne de Courcy · 464 pages

Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire

Amanda Foreman · 463 pages

Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth-century England. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire was one of the most flamboyant and influential women of the eighteenth century. The great-great-great-great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, she was variously a compulsive gambler, a political savante and operator of the highest order, a drug addict, an adu

Take Six Girls: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters

Laura Thompson · 480 pages

Kennedy Wives: Triumph and Tragedy in America's Most Public Family

Amber Hunt, David Batcher · 349 pages

THE KENNEDY WIVES takes an unflinching look at the women who married into the Kennedy family and their distinct roles. Rose, the matriarch; Ethel, the athlete; Jackie, the icon; Joan, the fragile beauty; and Vicki, the redeemer. In reality, each woman was complex and multifaceted. As Kennedy wives, they were bonded through characteristics and experiences unique to the Camelot family. The Kennedy W

King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father

Brooke Barbier · 320 pages

The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family

Mary S. Lovell · 611 pages

"This is the story of a close, loving family splintered by the violent ideologies of Europe between the wars. Jessica was a Communist; Debo became the Duchess of Devonshire; Nancy, the eldest, was one of the best-selling novelists of her day; the ethereally beautiful Diana, married to the Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley and imprisoned without trial through most of World War II, was the most hate

Archie and Amelie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age

Donna M. Lucey · 345 pages

The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy

David Nasaw · 882 pages

"Celebrated historian David Nasaw brings to life the story of Joseph Patrick Kennedy, in this, the first and only biography based on unrestricted and exclusive access to the Joseph P. Kennedy papers."--

The Kennedys: An American Drama

Peter Collier, David Horowitz · 300 pages

Servants' Hall: A Real Life Upstairs, Downstairs Romance

Margaret Powell · 184 pages

A collection of accounts about life in the servants' halls of England's great houses shares the true story of under-parlourmaid Rose, who after eloping with her employer's only son was swept up in a maelstrom of gossip.

Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonald's Fortune and the Woman Who Gave It All Away

Lisa Napoli · 591 pages

This fall, the movie The Founder will focus the spotlight on Ray Kroc, who amassed a fortune as the chairman of McDonalds. But what about his wife, Joan, who became famous for giving that fortune away? In Ray & Joan, Lisa Napoli tells the fascinating story behind the historic couple -- a quintessentially American tale of corporate intrigue and private passion.

Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

Kate Clifford Larson · 319 pages

The revelatory, poignant story of Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest and eventually secreted-away Kennedy daughter, and how her life transformed her family, its women especially, and an entire nation.

The Maid and the Queen: The Secret History of Joan of Arc

Nancy Goldstone

Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century

Katie Hickman · 384 pages

She Wolves: the Notorious Queens of England

Elizabeth Norton · 285 pages

Uppity Women of Medieval Times

Vicki Leon · 264 pages

"200 Daring Damsels who dazzled the dark ages and rocked the renaissance. From blacksmiths, bankers, plague-ridders, and sheep thieves to secret agents, pirates, holy women, and holy terrors, medieval women around the world used wits, wiles, patrons, and networking to make a winning hand of their lives." --Back cover

The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman

Nancy Marie Brown · 313 pages

Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed past the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even after archaeologists found a Viking longhouse in Newfoundland, few believed that the details of Gudrid's story were true. Then, in 2001, a team of scienti