Historical Heroines

One Hundred Women You Should Know About

Michelle Rosenberg, Sonia D Picker

• Publisher: Pen & Sword History
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781526715357
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

From Mata Hari and Pocahontas to Lucrezia Borgia and Hedy Lamarr—fascinating portraits of history's most unforgettable, and some unjustly forgotten, women. Cleopatra. Audrey Hepburn. Sappho. Calamity Jane. Marie Antoinette. Lilith. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Dame Emma Hamilton. Mary Shelley. Mary Frith. Some are celebrated in folklore legend; some are remembered only as movie stars; many will be familiar in their native countries; while others are, for the most part, unjustly unknown. Not anymore. Let this rewarding anthology set the record straight on: World War I heroine and nurse Edith Cavell; turn of the century Iñupiatexplorer Ada Blackjack; eighteenth-century abolitionist, slave, and women's rights pioneer Soujourner Truth; Gorgo, 480 BC Queen of Sparta; Agent 355, the American Revolution's most mysterious spy; nineteenth-century socialite and archaeologist Lady Hester Stanhope; eighteenth-century Irish physician Margaret Bulky who plied her trade by passing as a man for fifty years; and many, many more adventurers, leaders, and freedom fighters—each and every one, a groundbreaker whose name deserves a place in history.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Dedication
• Authors’ Note
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction – Sonia D. Picker
• Introduction – Michelle Rosenberg
• Ada Blackjack (1898–29 May 1983)
• Agent 355
• Agostina Domenech (4 March 1786–29 May 1857)
• Anne of Cleves (22 September 1515–16 July 1557)
• Aspasia of Miletus (c. 470–c. 400 BC)
• Aud/Unn or Audunn the Deep-minded (AD 834–900)
• Audrey Hepburn (4 May 1929–20 January 1993)
• Azucena Villaflor (7 April 1924–10 December 1977)
• Calamity Jane (1 May 1852–1903)
• Cartimandua (c. AD 43–c. 70)
• Catherine the Great (2 May 1729–17 November 1796)
• Ching Shih (1775–1844)
• Christina of Sweden (18 December 1626–19 April 1689)
• Cixi (29 November 1835–15 November 1908)
• Cleopatra (c. 69 BC–12 August 30 BC)
• Coco Chanel (19 August 1883–10 January 1971)
• Edith Cavell (4 December 1865–12 October 1915)
• Eliza Josolyne (1833–1907)
• Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (14 October 1856–3 November 1928)
• Dame Emma Hamilton (26 April 1765–15 January 1815)
• Empress Theodora (c. 500–48)
• Empress Wu Zetian (624–705)
• Flora Sandes (22 January 1876–24 November 1956)
• Golda Meir (3 May 1898–8 December 1978)
• Gorgo (AD 508/518?–?)
• Grace Humiston (17 September 1867–16 July 1948)
• Gráinne Ní Mháille, aka Grace O’Malley, Queen of Umail and the Pirate Queen of Ireland (c. 1530–1603)
• Gracia Mendes Nasi (1510–69)
• Harriet Beecher Stowe (14 June 1811–1 July 1896)
• Hatshepsut (1508–1458 BC)
• Hedy Lamarr (9 November 1914–19 January 2000)
• Hester Stanhope (12 March 1776–23 June 1839)
• Huda Shaarawi (23 June 1879–12 December 1947)
• Hypatia (c. 350/370–415/416)
• Ida (24 August 1904–22 December 1986) and Louise Cook (19 June 1901–27 March 1991)
• Isabel Godin des Odonais (1728–92)
• Isabella of France, Queen of England (1295–1358)
• Dr James Barry (1790s–25 July 1865)
• Jeanie Cameron of Glendessary, West Highlands (1695?–1773? or 1724?–1786?)
• Jezebel, Queen of Israel (9th Century BC)
• Kalpana Chawla (1 July 1961–1 February 2003)
• La Malinche, aka Mallinali, aka Dona Marina (1502–29)
• Lili Elbe (1882–1931) and Gerda Gottlieb (1885–1940)
• Lilith (A Long Time Ago In a Garden Far, Far Away)
• Lucrezia Borgia (18 April 1480–24 June 1519)
• Lucy, or AL 288-1
• Luisa Casati (1881–1957)
• Madame du Barry (19 August 1743–8 December 1793)
• Madam Sacho (18th Century)
• Madam Stephanie Queen St Clair (1880s?–1969)
• Madeleine de Verchères (1678–1747)
• Marie Antoinette (1755–93)
• Marie Marvingt (1875–1963)
• Mariya Oktyabrskaya (1905–44)
• Mary Anning (1799–1847)
• Mary Edmonia Lewis (c. 1844–1907 or 1843–1911)
• Mary Frith, aka Moll Cutpurse (1584–1659)
• Mary Seacole (c. 1805–81)
• Mary Shelley (30 August 1797–1 February 1851) and the Ghosts of Fanny Imlay and Harriet Shelley
• Mary Willcocks, aka Princess Caraboo (1791–1864)
• Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759–10 September 1797)
• Mata Hari, or Margaretha Zelle (7 August 1876–15 October 1917)
• Maw Broon (Created 1936)
• Maxine Elliot (5 February 1873–5 March 1940)
• Messalina (AD 17–48)
• Mileva Maric (19 December 1875–4 August 1948)
• Mirabal Sisters
• Moremi Ajaso (Twelfth Century)
• Nanny and the Maroons (1686–1733)
• Neerja Bhanot (1963–86)
• Nur Jahan or Mehr-un-Nisa (1577–1645)
• Queen Nzinga (1581–17 December 1663)
• Pauline Bonaparte Borghese (20 October 1780–9 June 1825)
• Penthesilea, Queen of the Amazons
• Phoolan Devi (1963–2001)
• Pocahontas (1596–1617)
• Policarpa ‘La Pola’ Salavarrieta (c. 1791–14 November 1817)
• Princess Olga (c. 890–969)
• Ruby Bridges (1954–)
• Sacajawea (c. 1788–1812)
• Sappho (620–550 BC)
• Shirin Ebadi (21 June 1947–)
• Simone de Beauvoir (1908–86)
• Queen Sondok or Seondeouk (606–47)
• Sophie Morigeau (c. 1836/7–1916)
• Soujourner Truth (c. 1797–1883)
• Susan B. Anthony (15 February 1820–13 March 1906)
• Truganini (1812–76)
• The Trung Sisters (d. AD 43)
• Veronica Franco (1546–91)
• Vivian Bullwinkel (18 December 1915–3 July 2000)
• Yaa Asantewaa (c. 1840–1921)
• The Unknown Woman
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