New Works

Winter 2023
The cover of Formidable show a photo of a group of Black and white women at a demontration, led by member of congress Bella Abzug.

Capturing a Century of Success and Struggle

In Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality, 1920–2020 , Elisabeth Griffith ’69 undertakes the daunting task of documenting a century of women’s activist history in the United States.More
The cover of The Insider: A Life of Virginia C. Gildersleeve features a striking black-and-white portrait of its subject as a young woman.

A Complicated Legacy

The Insider: A Life of Virginia C. Gildersleeve , a new biography by Nancy Woloch ’61, takes the life of a little-known, complex, and often obstreperous woman and makes it into a riveting story.More
The cover of Super Sad Black Girl features a close-up of a woman's face in a stylized painting.

Art from a Place of Darkness

Diamond Sharp ’11 knew from a pretty young age that she was going to be a writer. As a senior at Wellesley she began to write some of the poems in this debut volume, much of which deals with Sharp’s coming to terms with, and treating, her mental illness.More
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