Pioneers: Photography by Women BN_Top_100 The extravagant characters and absurd

The extravagant characters and absurd situations Alice faces along her way continue to fascinate readers by pushing the limits of logic and language

He's lonely and his  desire for acceptance is threatened by a classroom bully and the intrusive curiosity of his classmates

Vivien is unsurprised when Florence's ghost needs her help to play one final game

novelist Nancy Mitford grows suspicious of her sisters' constant visits to Germany and the high-ranking fascist company they keep

The Widow of Naim

Pioneers: Photography by Women BN_Top_100 The extravagant characters and absurdNever before published images by 42 female photographers from Lotte Jacobi to Susan Meiselas Women have been professional photographers since the inception of the medium, yet their work has received far less attention than that of their male colleagues. From the more than 15 million photographs stored in the Dutch National Archives in The Hague, the editors of Pioneers: Photography by Women selected a compilation of more than 200 images by 42 female