This collection of her letters, offers in effect an intellectual biography which is considered to be better documented and more vivid than any previous book about her.
"The rise of modern feminism, the world-wide political upheavals of the century with their efforts to enlist women as partisans of an old order or a revolution, the new individuals, socialist, fascist, communist and Hitlerite literature on ...
In this classic, pioneering work on the status and position of women, Mary R. Beard challenges the widely held belief that women have been subject to men throughout the ages.