A Room of Their Own

Add to your travel bucket list with A Room of Their Own, the history guide to famous ladies and their estates. Experience the impact of these international residents on history through the artifacts that they left behind.

Explore Historic Homes of Famous Women Add to your travel bucket list with A Room of Their Own, the history guide to famous ladies and their estates. Experience the impact of these international residents on history through the artifacts that they left behind.

#1 Best Seller in Literary Travel

Experience the daily lives of feminist icons. Ever wonder what the most famous women in history did in their spare time? From bestselling author Marlene Wagman-Geller comes a women history book and travel memoir about the home museums of women who helped shape history. From female authors, artists, and public figures, A Room of Their Own has something for everyone wanting to know more about who these legendary ladies were.

Connect with relics of the past. Full of historical facts and stories from 37 different locations around the world, this travel memoir also shares something that can only be found in these historic homes: the preservation of their personal legacy. Each chapter visualizes the emotional journey these residents lived through the personal items left behind. Featuring unknown stories about Frida Kahlo; Lizzie Borden; Diana, Princess of Wales; and more, history lovers will reconnect with these famous women in history as real people with everyday lives.

Explore these home museums of famous women in history. The Betsy Ross Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Jane Austen's House, Chawton, The United Kingdom; Museo Frida Kahlo, Mexico City, Mexico; Anne Frank House, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Anne of Green Gables House, Prince Edward Island, Canada; Carry A. Nation, Medicine Lodge, Kansas; and more.

Inside, you'll also find:

• How these home museums came to be
• Unique furniture, photographs, letters, and other artifacts
• History trivia about the daily lives of these famous women

If you liked books such as All the Beauty in the World, Women in White Coats, or Unabashed Women, you'll love A Room of Their Own.

Vorwort

• Marlene Wagmen-Geller is an indefatigable blogger on the topic of women in history, posting daily and garnering many reads on her social media, email newsletter and well-trafficked website.

• She will promote to her social network via Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn. Member of the California Teacher’s
• Association (CTA) and its thousands of Facebook members, Email blasts to district-wide mailing list.

• Her books have already sold over 100,000 copies worldwide and continue to sell well.

• Women of Means, has been a bestselling title for Mango in all formats and a top-three ebook.


• Author will work with an extensive list of media contacts, bloggers, independent booksellers, individuals and VIP contacts.


  Autorentext

Marlene Wagman-Geller is a bestselling author known for her work in writing about phenomenal women and their impact on civilization. Since publishing her debut book in 2008, she has gone on to write popular feminist books such as Still I Rise, Women of Means, and Women Who Launch, which were reviewed by The New York Times and The Huffington Post. Wagman-Geller currently lives in sunny San Diego with her husband and Persian cat, and teaches English when not writing her next book about famous women in history.

A native of New Hampshire, Joyce Maynard began publishing her stories in magazines when she was thirteen years old. She first came to national attention with the publication of her New York Times cover story, “An Eighteen Year Old Looks Back on Life,” in 1972, when she was a freshman at Yale. 

 Since then, she has been a reporter and columnist for The New York Times, a syndicated newspaper columnist whose “Domestic Affairs” column appeared in over fifty papers nationwide, a regular contributor to NPR and national magazines including Vogue, The New York Times Magazine, and many more, and a longtime performer with The Moth. 

 Maynard is the author of seventeen books, including the novel To Die For and the bestselling memoir, At Home in the World—translated into sixteen languages. Her novel, To Die For was adapted for the screen by Buck Henry for a film directed by Gus Van Sant, in which Joyce can be seen in the role of Nicole Kidman’s lawyer. Her novel Labor Day was adapted and directed by Jason Reitman for a film starring Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin, to whom Joyce offered instruction for making the pie that appeared in a crucial scene in the film. 

 The mother of three grown children, Maynard runs workshops in memoir at her home in Lafayette, California. In 2002 she founded The Lake Atitlan Writing Workshop in San Marcos La Laguna, Guatemala, where she hosts a weeklong workshop in personal storytelling every winter. She is a fellow of The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo.

Klappentext

Add to your travel bucket list with A Room of Their Own, the history guide to famous ladies and their estates. Experience the impact of these international residents on history through the artifacts that they left behind.

Zusammenfassung
Add to your travel bucket list with A Room of Their Own, the history guide to famous ladies and their estates. Experience the impact of these international residents on history through the artifacts that they left behind.

Leseprobe
Women's Home Museums Revealed"Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story."
-Homer The word museum originated from the ancient Greek word that denoted "place of the Muses." The nine Muses were the offspring of Zeus-who wasn't?-and Mnemosyne, the Goddess of Memory. Indeed, museums are the repositories of memories, of ancient civilization, of the apogee of artistry.

Everyone has heard of the major museums whose stories are as intriguing as the works they display: Paris's Louvre, London's National Gallery, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Between these three iconic institutions, twenty million visitors walk their halls, approximately the same number as people living in Beijing. But what about the galleries that do not display canvases bearing the signatures of Old Masters such as Rembrandt, Caravaggio, or Gentileschi?

Curiosity about the daily lives of the famous draws us to the places they called home. A Room of Their Own is an investigation into museums of a kind sometimes referred to as memory museums, dedicated to fascinating women whose lives left indelible fingerprints on history. As these landmarks are situated in their subjects' homes, rather than passively gazing at paintings with accompanying brass plaques, visitors undergo a more intimate experience. Upon entering their thresholds, one encounters a three-dimensional diary with artifacts that comprised their everyday lives: furniture, photographs, and letters. Even the most mundane of objects takes on a magical realism, as they were the possessions of ladies of legend. The rooms where their residents lived serve as a confessional; here they laughed, mourned, and created. For those with a nod to the mystical, their ghostly chatelaines serve as guides. House museums are Pied Pipers to the curious. Walking where historic figures once trod presents the opportunity to hear the scratching of Emily Brontë's quill in her Haworth Parsonage, listen to an aria in Édith Piaf's Parisian apartment, or imagine the iridescent blue of the radium that doubled as Marie Curie's nightlight. Whether their homes be humble or haute, all double as biographer. Betsy Ross's miniscule dwelling in Philadelphia and Marjorie Merriweather Post's opulent estat…