Elisabeth Brooke

Author of Medicine Women: A Pictoral History of Women Healers

About the Author

Elisabeth Brooke qualified as a Medical Herbalist with the National Institute of Medical Herbalists in 1980 and opened and runs a training clinic for herbal students in London. She also has a private practice in London and teaches and lectures worldwide. She is the author of the best-selling A show more Woman's Book of Herbs. show less

Includes the names: Elizabeth Brooke, Elisabeth Brooke, Elizabeth Brooke

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The fiction and non-fiction are by the same person.

Works by Elisabeth Brooke

A Wise Woman's Guide to Spells, Rituals, and Goddess Love (1993) 57 copies

Women Healers: Portraits of Herbalists, Physicians, and Midwives (1995) 26 copies

Traditional Western Herbal Medicine: As Above So Below (2019) 17 copies

A Woman's Book of Herbs (1992) 16 copies, 1 review

A Woman's Book of Shadows (1993) 13 copies

An Astrological Herbal for Women (1995) 11 copies

Herbal Therapy for Women (1993) 10 copies

Women Healers Through History (1993) 6 copies

Hexenmagie. Geheimes Wissen für Frauen. (1997) 6 copies

Kräuter helfen heilen (2004) 3 copies, 1 review

A February Cuckoo (1997) 2 copies

Alphonse Mucha. Trionfo di bellezza e seduzione. Ediz. illustrata 1 copy

Keep Me Sane 1 copy

Peg lends a hand : a Camp Fire play 1 copy

Die grossen Heilerinnen (1997) 1 copy, 1 review

Monstrous Women (2025) 1 copy, 1 review

Goddess Astrology (2022) 1 copy

Kniha stínů : čarodějnictví: oslava (1998) 1 copy

Büyücülük Kılavuzu 1 copy

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Gender: female
Disambiguation notice: The fiction and non-fiction are by the same person.

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ritaer 4,448 reviews

Monstrous Women by Elisabeth Brooke

I wanted to find this interesting and insightful. But there is something about the prose style adopted by some writers about the role of women in religion and mythology that is so confused, incoherent and annoying that I just can't.

May 19, 2026

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