Wendy Moore

Prize-winning historian Wendy Moore's captivating tale of British writer Thomas Day's mission to groom his ideal mate captures the radicalism -- and deep contradictions -- at the heart of the Enlightenment.

"The inspiring story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who ran the only military hospital staffed entirely by women during World War I-and who transformed medicine in the process. A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson set out for Paris, where they opened a hospital in a luxury hotel and treated hundreds of casualties plucked from France's battlefields. Although, prior to the war, female doctors...