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So awesome to be on Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls! :D
RP on Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls!
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RP on Biography.com!
Biography.com has a guest piece today by yours truly, with brief blurbs about several of the women covered on this site and in the book.
Interview with Drawn + Drafted!
I got interviewed by the stellar Drawn + Drafted about my work process, the ups and downs of being a web person, and more! Check it out!
RP on Talk Nerdy!
The awesome Cara Santa Maria had me on her Talk Nerdy podcast to talk about the RP book.
RP featured in high school newspaper!
An RP reader in high school did a writeup of the project for her school newspaper. Rad!
RP one of the most innovative companies in LA!
Cross Campus released a list of the most innovative companies in Los Angeles and included Rejected Princesses.
Random Princesses
Truganini
The "Last of the Aboriginal Tasmanians" (she wasn't) used brains, brawn, and sheer will to carve a place for herself, even as the world was collapsing around her.
Grace O'Malley
Irish pirate queen who led decades of rebellions against England, met face-to-face with Elizabeth I, and got official license to…
Florence Nightingale
One half of the odd couple of Crimean nursing - the by-the-book Victorian rebel who revolutionized the field of medicine who stood in stark to Mary Seacole's jolly reliance on folk remedies and home comforts.
Empress Myeongseong
Picked to be an impotent figurehead, this savvy intellectual quickly learned how to play politics and modernized the nation to ward off invasion.
Anne Farquharson-Mackintosh
When the true king of the Scots came to reclaim the throne, this spirited woman went up against her husband to back her chosen sovereign.