Mary Seacole
Random Princesses

Hortense Mancini
One of the most infamous libertines of the Renaissance, she cavorted all over Europe to flee her abusive marriage, lived…

Black Agnes
When the English laid siege to her castle home, this Scottish woman bedeviled them until they gave up.

Annie Jump Cannon
This astronomer threw off all the social conventions of her day to pursue her one true calling: the stars.

Virginia Hall
This "most dangerous of all spies" staged daring mountaintop escapes, prison breaks, and railway bombings -- all on her trusty wooden leg, codenamed "Cuthbert."

Beloved
The ghost of a tragically-murdered young child come back to haunt her mother in post-slavery America.

Freydís Eiríksdóttir
When attacked by Native Americans, this pregnant viking bared her chest, brandished a sword, and took them on by herself. And she won.

Moremi Ajasoro
When a neighboring tribe threatened the Yoruba, this queen went undercover as a spy to find their weakness.

Kate Shelley
To save an oncoming passenger train, this 15-year-old girl climbed across a collapsing bridge, with nothing but flashes of lightning to keep her from falling to her death in the flooding river below -- a river that had already killed her father.

Mary Patten
When her husband became deathly ill, this pregnant teen took the reins to become America's first female boat commander - all while fighting off a mutiny and keeping her husband alive.

Olga of Kiev
Brutal princess-turned-Christian saint who burnt down enemy towns using pigeons.