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Lists of books, many of which received at least one starred review (indicating a work of unusual merit) from the following review sources: Booklist , Publisher's Weekly (PW), Kirkus and Library Journal (LJ). Additional titles of interest may be included on the lists. Titles are generally listed alphabetically by author.
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Sisters Booklist
Page Modified: August 19, 2008
Nonfiction about sisters
Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.
Nonfiction
- The Viceroy's Daughters: The Lives of the Curzon Sisters
Author: De Courcy, Anne
Publisher: Morrow $ 27.95 ISBN: 0066210615 Date: 2002
In this tell-all biography--based on unpublished letters and diaries--Anne de Courcy brings into focus the desires, secrets, and passions of three dazzling women through World War II and beyond. A scintillating look at an exciting and influential era and the women who helped shape it, this is biography and history at its finest.
Updated 9.25.06 - Five Sisters: The Langhorne Sisters
of Virginia
by Fox, James
Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 30 ISBN: 0684808129 Date: 2000
Library Journal
The author of the bestselling White Mischief tells the story of the beautiful Langhorne sisters who lived at the center of high and powerful society from the end of the Civil War through the Second World War. As they made their way across two continents, the five women acquired rich husbands, fame, and scandals.
Suggested Reading: Virginia Stars - The Soong Sisters
Author: Hahn, Emily
Publisher: Greenwood $ 22.50 ISBN: 0837144299 Date: 1970
In the early twentieth century, few women in China were to prove so important to the rise of Chinese nationalism and liberation from tradition as the extraordinary three Soong Sisters, Eling, Chingling and Mayling. As told with wit and verve by Emily Hahn, a remarkable woman in her own right, the biography of the Soong Sisters tells the story of China through both world wars. It also chronicles the changes to Shanghai as they relate to a very eccentric family that had the courage to speak out against the ruling regime. Greatly influencing the history of modern China, they interacted with their government and military to protect the lives of those who could not be heard, and they appealed to the West to support China during the Japanese invasion. - Publisher Marketing
Updated 9.25.06 - The Titled Americans: Three American Sisters and the British Aristocratic World into Which They Married
Author: Kehoe, Elizabeth
Publisher: Atlantic $ 27.50 ISBN: 0871139243 Date: 2004
LJ
The author pens a family saga chronicling the glamorous lives of Leonard Jerome, his daughters, and their children through the apogee and the twilight of the British Empire. Daughter Jennie married Randolph Churchill and was Winston's mother. Daughter Clara was romanced by the dashing Moreton Frewen, while daughter Leonie married into the Leslies, a distinguished Irish family.
Updated 12.27.04 - The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family
Author: Lovell, Mary S.
Publisher: Norton $ 29.95 ISBN: 0393010430 Date: 2002
PW Booklist
The Mitfords had style, presence, and were extremely gifted: four would go on to write bestselling books. Above all, they were funny--hilariously and often mercilessly so. In this wise, evenhanded, and generous book, Lovell captures the vitality and extraordinary drama of a family that took the 20th century by the throat and became, in some respects, its victims.
Suggested Reading: Mitfords
Updated 11.27.01 - The Peabody Sisters: Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism
Author: Marshall, Megan
Publisher: Houghton $ 28 ISBN: 0395389925 Date: 2005
PW Booklist LJ
Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia Peabody were in many ways the "American Brontes." The story of these remarkable sisters--and their central role in shaping the thinking of their day--is told in Marshall's monumental biography.
Suggested Reading: All Stars | Women's History
Updated 4.7.05
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