This week my guest is historian Dr. Amanda Foreman. Amanda is author of award-winning best sellers, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and A World on Fire as well as the BBC/Netflix series The Ascent of Woman. She writes a column for the Wall Street Journal and her next book, The World Made By Women is scheduled to be published later this year. Amanda's Books• A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1905• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, 1813• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, 1954-1955• Britons: Forging the Nation 1707–1837 by Linda Colley, 1992• In A Different Voice: Psychological Theory In Women's Development by Carol Gilligan, 1982Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices