The mammoth book of heroic & outrageous women
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The mammoth book of heroic & outrageous women
Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1999
1st Carroll & Graf ed
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Mammoth book of heroic and outrageous women
Heroic & outrageous women
Heroic and outrageous women
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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.
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