A Woman's Place There may have been only men sitting at the table, but Who Cooked the Last Supper? asks writer Rosalind Miles (I, Elizabeth; Guenevere, Queen of the Summer Country). Bent on setting ...

This is a necessarily perplexing book. Subtitled “The Renegades, Viragos And Heroines Who Changed The World – From The French Revolution To Today”, it will sit snugly alongside books such as Rosemary ...

It’s an irresistible premise: In the year 1600, old, triumphant but alone, Elizabeth I-the Virgin Queen, Gloriana, Good Queen Bess-is penning her memoirs, taking off all the masks to show us the woman ...

The Jacqueline Du Pré Music Building at St Hilda’s College is a highly suitable setting for Rosalind Miles’s portraits of musicians and their music. She explains that her approach was inspired by the ...

Virago is to publish historian and novelist Rosalind Miles’ The Women’s History of the Modern World, 25 years after she wrote The Women’s History of the World (HarperCollins). Publisher Lennie ...

Novelist and historian Miles (coauthor, Warrior Women) spotlights “rebel women” from the past two centuries in this brisk and freewheeling history. Contending that women’s liberation is “a work in ...