The Mammoth Book of Heroic & Outrageous Women

Author: Gemma Alexander
ISBN: 9780786706952

Astounding adventures, reckless courage, and fierce independence are hardly the exclusive preserve of men, as this intriguing and surprising collection shows: courtesans from Nell Gwynne to Madame de Pompadour; femme fatales such as the pistol-packing concubine Lola Montez and Clara Bow, the It girl who turned Hollywood into her own party; the outlaws Phoolan "the Bandit Queen" Devi and seafaring, ship-raiding Anne Bonney; and heroines from the ancient British Queen Boadicea to Nancy Wake, who, dressed as a man, led a bazooka-assault against a Nazi redoubt in World War II.

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
Publish Date: 1999

Subjects: History / World

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Biography/Autobiography)