| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xii, 304 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Note |
"A Perigee Book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-291) |
| Summary |
Presents stories of famous female risk takers who defied convention and beat the odds to make history, including such women as Cleopatra, Emma Hamilton, NAACP founder Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Isadora Duncan. |
| Contents |
1. Warrior queens. Cleopatra ; Boudica ; Eleanor of Aquitaine ; Joan of Arc ; Grace O'Malley -- 2. Wayward wives. Emilie du Châtelet ; Lady Caroline Lamb ; Jane Digby ; Violet Trefusis ; Zelda Fitzgerald -- 3. Scintillating seductresses. Anne Boleyn ; Barbara Palmer ; Emma Hamilton ; Lola Montez ; Mata Hari -- 4. Crusading ladies. Anne Hutchinson ; Mary Wollstonecraft ; Rose O'Neal Greenhow ; Ida B. Wells-Barnett ; Carry Nation -- 5. Wild women of the West. Mary Ellen Pleasant ; Sarah Winnemucca ; Calamity Jane ; Elizabeth "Baby Doe" Tabor ; Margaret Tobin Brown -- 6. Amorous artists. Camille Claudel ; Isadora Duncan ; Josephine Baker ; Billie Holiday ; Frida Kahlo -- 7. Amazing adventuresses. Anne Bonney and Mary Read ; Lady Hester Stanhope ; Anna Leonowens ; Gertrude Bell ; Amelia Earhart. |
| Subject |
Women -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| Subject |
Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568
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Frau.
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| ISBN |
9780399536458 (paperback) |
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0399536450 (paperback) |
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