Clara Schumann : piano virtuoso / by Reich, Susanna

Lives of the musicians : good times, bad times (and what the neighbors thought) / by Krull, Kathleen

Table of Contents: “…The red priest: Antonio Vivaldi -- Twenty children and 1,200 compositions: Johann Sebastian Bach -- No ordinary baby: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Moodiness and moonlight: Ludwig van Beethoven -- "My dear corpse": Frédéric Chopin -- A successful farmer and opera-composer: Giuseppe Verdi -- A different white dress every night: Clara Schumann -- Dear friends and gentle hearts: Stephen Foster -- The checked cotton underwear of Johannes Brahms -- Pulsing and quivering: Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky -- Topsy-turvydom: William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan -- Velvet gentleman: Erik Satie -- The entertainer: Scott Joplin -- He stretched our ears: Charles Ives -- Standing on his head: Igor Stravinsky -- Tender Tyrant: Nadia Boulanger -- Full of splinters: Sergei Prokofiev -- "Great, isn't it?"…”

Herstory : women who changed the world /

Table of Contents: “…Queen Hatshepsut -- Sappho -- Aspasia -- Cleopatra -- The Trung sisters -- Boudica -- Hypatia -- Empress Theodora -- Wu Chao -- Murasaki Shikibu -- Sultana Razia -- Christine de Pizan -- Joan of Arc -- Queen Isabella I -- La Malinche -- Catherine de Médicis -- Queen Elizabeth I -- Mary Queen of Scots -- Artemisia Gentileschi -- Judith Leyster -- Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz -- Catherine the Great -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- Deborah Sampson -- Jane Austen -- Emma Willard -- Sacajawea -- Sarah Grimké and Angelina Grimké -- La Pola -- Sojourner Truth -- Catharine Beecher -- Dorothea Dix -- Margaret Fuller Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Harriet Tubman -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Charlotte Brontë and Emily Brontë -- Maria Mitchell -- Clara Schumann -- Queen Victoria -- Susan B. Anthony -- Florence Nightingale -- Elizabeth Blackwell -- Clara Barton -- Antoinette Brown Blackwell -- Mary Harris "Mother" Jones -- Lakshmi Bai -- Emily Dickinson -- Louisa May Alcott -- Tz'u-hsi -- Queen Liliuokalani -- Sarah Bernhardt -- Mary Cassatt -- Sarah Winnemucca -- Carry Nation -- Louisa Lawson -- Olive Schreiner -- Fannie Farmer -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Jane Addams -- Ida B. …”