Suggest a "Staff Pick" for archive.org

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The staff has picked for this month! Please have a look at this page for the current pickings. You can also check out our (soon to come) wiki page for a plain vanilla list that contains all the staff picks for this year plus the readers.

March 8 is International Women's Day, so our theme will be:
Women Power

I'd like to have books about or by women from all over the planet. A good focus would be mothers, entrenpreneurs, travellers, doctors; women's struggles for suffrage or better work conditions; or how women lived 95+ years ago... you get the idea. Fiction and Nonfiction, as always.

Especially welcome are suggestions of plays and poetry!
And, as always: All languages welcome!

Suggest away!

[msfry]

I suggest [url-https://librivox.org/loom-and-spindle-by-harriet-h-robinson/]Loom and Spindle[/url], catalogued last November, with 46,678 Views on IA already. It fits all the mentioned categories.

[knotyouraveragejo]

Here's a few to consider...

Something by Isabella Bird - https://librivox.org/author/1059
https://librivox.org/a-ladys-life-in-the-rocky-mountains-by-isabella-l-bird/
https://librivox.org/unbeaten-tracks-in-japan-by-isabella-l-bird/
https://librivox.org/among-the-tibetans-by-isabella-l-bird/

Woman's suffrage/Woman's rights
In the U.S. - https://librivox.org/woman-suffrage-and-politics-by-carrie-chapman-catt-and-nettie-rogers-shuler/
In England - https://librivox.org/the-suffragette-by-e-sylvia-pankhurst/
Worldwide - https://librivox.org/modern-womans-rights-movement-by-kaethe-schirmacher/

https://librivox.org/pioneer-work-opening-medical-profession-to-women-by-elizabeth-blackwell/

https://librivox.org/life-of-clara-barton-vol1-by-william-barton/
https://librivox.org/life-of-clara-barton-volume-2-by-william-e-barton/

https://librivox.org/the-life-of-florence-nightingale-volume-1-by-edward-tyas-cook/
https://librivox.org/the-life-of-florence-nightingale-volume-2-by-edward-tyas-cook/

[LCaulkins]

Here are some good Woman Power audiobooks. Most are memoirs/biographies:

Twenty Years at Hull House, by Jane Addams

The Long Road of Woman's Memory, by Jane Addams

The Life of Frances Power Cobbe as Told by Herself, by Frances Power Cobbe

Margaret Fuller (Marchessa Ossoli), by Julia Ward Howe

Abigail Adams and Her Times, by Laura E. Howe-Richards

And a fun fiction by a woman and starring a woman:

The Bat, by Mary Roberts Rinehart

[Availle]

Wow, those are great books - I knew there shouldn't be any problem finding non-fiction.

How about fiction, though?

And a fun fiction by a woman and starring a woman:
The Bat, by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Lynette, can you tell me a bit more about the plot for this one?
In this thread, I don't mind spoilers

[LCaulkins]

Wow, those are great books - I knew there shouldn't be any problem finding non-fiction.

How about fiction, though?

And a fun fiction by a woman and starring a woman:
The Bat, by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Lynette, can you tell me a bit more about the plot for this one?
In this thread, I don't mind spoilers

Sure - An older woman rents a country home for a respite from a city beleaguered by murderous crime — only to find herself smack in the middle of a suspenseful mystery. Her cool-headedness aids her in solving the mystery and helping her niece.

[msfry]

Poetry? Not many women poets more powerfully prolific than Ella Wheeler Wilcox. How about her collection of Poems Of Power.
https://librivox.org/poems-of-power-by-ella-wheeler-wilcox/

[Availle]

Thanks Michele - sounds awfully familiar though, without actually checking, I think I already chose this?

[msfry]

Thanks Michele - sounds awfully familiar though, without actually checking, I think I already chose this?

It catalogued in April 2015. I searched "power" on all the wiki Staff Pick pages since then and didn't find it.

Here's another one, a solo of mine, a fictional story about how two poor women in Dublin maintain their dignity under dire circumstances, by making believe!
The Charwoman's Daughter, by James Stephens,

[mightyfelix]

A great fictional book dealing with women's issues that I enjoyed very much is The Heavenly Twins: https://librivox.org/the-heavenly-twins-by-sarah-grand/

It explores the idea of education for women and girls (should it be the same as that of boys, or different?), as well as women's rights where marriage is concerned.

[redrun]

Here's another that was just catalogued. It's on my listening list, but I've got some PL to keep up with.
The Morality of Marriage and Other Essays on the Status and Destiny of Woman

[Availle]

These sound great, thank you!
Keep 'em coming!

[annise]

If you are after fiction https://librivox.org/two-on-the-trail-by-edith-elise-cowper/ . It's a change to see a girl escaping nasty men and taking her 12 year old brother on a winter escape through Alaskan wilds.

Anne

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[alg1001]

I wonder if we could have a Ukrainian Authors Staff Pick?