Hi everyone! 👋
I’m looking for book recommendations preferably non-fiction or memoirs about women who go through self-discovery, break free from limitations (internal or external), overcome judgment, loneliness, trauma and come out stronger in the end.
Not necessarily famous women — just real, powerful journeys of inner growth and transformation.
If anything comes to mind, I’d love to hear your suggestions, please 🥰.
by Pristine-Neck-8412
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Dr Kathleen Lynn is the woman for you!
The Journals of Kathleen Lynnn ( historical non fiction, a few versions exist with different editors) and a few biographies are worth checking out
She was an Irish republican ( just clarifying, this is not the same thing as USA republican, people have asked me this before), sufragette and socialist revolutionary in the early 20th century, was very involved in women’s health care as one of the country’s only female doctors ( and in a Catholic nation, where abortion and even healthcare to save a labouring mother at the cost of the baby if need be were heavily condemned/ criminalised and as Lynn communicates, when labour complications occurred, a woman’s future fertility was prioritised above her current safety and comfort). She and her lover Madeleine Ffrench Mullen were both heavily involved in protests against the British and spent a fair bit of time in prison. They also dealt with the premature loss of a lot of their comrades often in violent circumstances. But what really comes across is that it was creating and maintaining community that allowed them to keep going, and they still had good days and periods of their lives despite living in a period of intense oppression and struggle.
I also read Madeline’s prison journal from after the rising online. She and Lynn are so clearly devoted to each other
She only started the journals when she became politically active in her 40s