Sourced from the British Library's collections, these formerly out of print titles by women authors who enjoyed broad, popular appeal in their day are being brought back into print and contextualized Authors are chosen not just for the strength of their writing and the power of their storytelling, but for highlighting the realities of life for women and society's changing attitudes toward women's behavior through the decades Each book includes a new preface, an author biography, a chronology of the significant events during the decade of the novel's setting or publication, and an afterword discussing key issues in the story Prefaces are written by the British Library's curators, while the afterwords are by series consultant Simon Thomas Simon Thomas's blog Stuck in a Book receives 10k+ visitors per month, he cohosts the podcast T ea or Books?, and he hosts other book blogging projects such as A Century of Books Cover designs reflect the book's era. Inside text on the French flaps indicates what decade the reader is about to enter (i.e. 1930s ). The series was inspired by regular reader requests to include more women in their Crime Classics series. Fascinating lives of the authors are selling points in themselves.