Maria Campbell tells her own story in the book Halfbreed [published 1973 and updated 2019]. She was born in 1940 near Spring River, Saskatc...

Amelia Warner, BBC production, 2000 Lorna grows up among the Doones, who occupy a valley near Exmoor in the 17th century. She believes she i...

Lisa Fittko was born in 1909 into a large Jewish family in Hungary. Moving to Berlin at a young age, she witnessed the rise of the Nazis and...

Isabel Allende We first meet Roser Bruguera as a seven-year-old goatherd who beguiles Don Santiago Guzman with her intelligence when he meet...

Anne Bronte Agnes tells her story in the first person, as if to a friend, in Agnes Grey [published 1847], written by Anne Bronte. She begin...

Ella Jo Baker was born in 1903 into a relatively well off African American family. Her grandfather, Mitchell Ross, had been able to purchase...

Jennifer Egan S asha’s story is that of a girl born into a difficult family, who develops many problems of her own. She wants nothing more t...