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Marguerite de la Rocque (mid-16th century)
The Woman Who Survived Years On An Abandoned Island
Stranded by her cruel relative on an abandoned Canadian island (literally named the Isle of Demons), she survived for two years by hunting animals and eventually made it back to France.
Kharboucha (19th century Moroccan legend)
The Poet Who Sang Truth to Power
This legendary pockmarked poet sang truth to power and was killed for it, becoming an enduring symbol of resistance.
Collection: Journalists >

Isabelle Eberhardt

This undefinable adventurer's life burnt bright but short: a wildcard of the Algerian revolution, she survived an assassination attempt by sabre, and died in a freak desert flood.

Ida B. Wells

One of the first anti-lynching advocates, she risked her life for decades to report on the truth when nobody would believe her.

Nellie Bly

Daring journalist who infiltrated insane asylums, exposed slavery rings, and raced around the world in under 80 days.
Joan of Arc (1412-1431)
The Maid of Orleans
The infamous teen girl who helped end the Hundred Years War and save France – but do you know how she got to such prominence? This book has an answer, and it involves another powerful woman, operating behind the scenes…
The Night Witches (1942-1945)
The Civilian Pilots Who Became the Nazis' Worst Nightmare
This all-female civilian volunteer unit of the WW2 Soviet military overcame a lack of training, equipment, and faith to pull off one of the greatest underdog feats in human history and in so doing become Germany's worst nightmare.
Yoshiko Kawashima (1907-1947)
The Traitor Princess of Manchuria
Bisexual cross-dressing spy princess of the Qing dynasty – a hero to some and unspeakable villain to others.
Collection: Rebels >

Zenobia

3rd century Rome had a major woman problem. Her name was Zenobia, and she took over a huge chunk of their empire in her brief and tumultuous career as rebel queen.

Trinidad Tecson

Turned into a revolutionary in middle age, this mother became one of the Philippines most heralded women.

Vitka Kempner

Spy, smuggler, saboteur, partisan: this Jewish woman refused to go like a lamb to the slaughter, and fought the Nazis tooth and nail... even after the war, when she, alongside others, poisoned thousands of Nazi POWs in a revenge plot.
Qiu Jin (1875-1907)
The Heroine Who Wrote Her Own Destiny
This revolutionary martyred herself to help rid China of the Qing dynasty.
Jezebel (9th century BCE)
The Most Maligned Woman in the Bible
Roundly-despised and unfairly-maligned seductress of the bible who ran afoul of the wrong priests.
Marie Mancini (1639-1715)
Divorce Pioneer of the Renaissance
Joined her sister Hortense Mancini in escaping from an equally abusive marriage, making headlines (and trouble) all across Europe in the process.
Collection: Pirates >

Ching Shih

Headed a squadron of 80,000 pirates, ruled the Chinese seas for two decades, and actually retired happily - but not before extorting a nice pension from the Chinese government.

Charlotte Badger

The first European woman to end up in New Zealand, Charlotte Badger was part pirate, part adopted Maori, and part mom. Which part is which is somewhat lost to history.

Jeanne de Clisson

When her husband was unjustly executed, this French noblewoman-turned-pirate became the terror of France.
Hortense Mancini (1646-1699)
Divorce Pioneer of the Renaissance
One of the most infamous libertines of the Renaissance, she cavorted all over Europe to flee her abusive marriage, lived a hedonistic life, and wrote memoirs under her own name – all in an attempt to win herself a divorce.
Marjana (Arabian myth)
The Slave Girl Who Killed Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
The actual hero of the Ali Baba myth, this slave girl saves the titular character by singlehandedly dispatching the forty thieves - without him even knowing.
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    With a dead husband and a hostile foreign country on her hands, this Indian queen did the unthinkable - turned her loyal servants into some of the first suicide bombers in recorded history.
    Princess Caraboo

    Princess Caraboo

    This phony Asian royalty fooled rural England for some time - but the truth she was hiding was far darker.
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    Mary Seacole

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    One half of the odd couple of Crimean nursing - the jolly black businesswoman who swore by folk remedies, in stark contrast to Florence Nightingale's by-the-book Victorian approach to medicine.
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    When some scrubs hit on her, she burnt them alive. When a king slapped her across the face, she obliterated his kingdom. Sigrid the Haughty was not to be messed with.
    Alice B. Clement

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    Chicago detective whose crime-busting exploits grew so popular she had her own newspaper series and starred in her own movie.
    Tomoe Gozen

    Tomoe Gozen

    Fearsome undefeated samurai warrior who was "a match for any god or demon," and is one of Japan's greatest heroines…
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    Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones)

    This leader of the labor movement suffered imprisonment, defamation, and untold misery to battle against forces that most of us just take for granted.
    Jane Dieulafoy

    Jane Dieulafoy

    A phenomenally successful archaeologist who became a fashion icon for wearing men's clothing.
    Nancy Wake

    Nancy Wake

    This most-wanted WW2 spy rescued Jews and POWs, blew up Nazi trains, and used an X-rated radio rhyme to identify herself to Britain.

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