Bad Girls from History: Wicked or Misunderstood?
Sep 2017 · Pen and Sword
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This "lively" study of female lawbreakers across centuries and cultures is "chock full of disquieting stories and truly twisted personalities" ( Booklist).
Organized A-to-Z under six categories, this book offers insight into the lives and minds of women in different centuries and different countries, with diverse cultures and backgrounds from the poverty-stricken to royalty, who have defied law and order and social taboos. Read about mistresses, murderers, smugglers, pirates, prostitutes, and fanatics with hearts and souls that feature every shade of black (and gray!). From Cleopatra to Ruth Ellis, from Boudicca to Bonnie Parker, from Lady Caroline Lamb to Moll Cutpurse, from Jezebel to Ava Gardner—as well as less familiar names like Victorian brothel-keeper Mary Jeffries, American gambler and horse thief Belle Starr, and La Voisin, the seventeenth-century Queen of all Witches in France—you'll find a variety of women from the daring and outrageous to the desperate to the downright evil. Wicked? Misunderstood? Naïve? Foolish? Predatory? Manipulative? Or just rebellious? Read their stories and decide.
"[A] rollicking survey of 100 female renegades . . . this compendium of historical trivia is a lot of fun to read." — Publishers Weekly
Includes photos and illustrations
Organized A-to-Z under six categories, this book offers insight into the lives and minds of women in different centuries and different countries, with diverse cultures and backgrounds from the poverty-stricken to royalty, who have defied law and order and social taboos. Read about mistresses, murderers, smugglers, pirates, prostitutes, and fanatics with hearts and souls that feature every shade of black (and gray!). From Cleopatra to Ruth Ellis, from Boudicca to Bonnie Parker, from Lady Caroline Lamb to Moll Cutpurse, from Jezebel to Ava Gardner—as well as less familiar names like Victorian brothel-keeper Mary Jeffries, American gambler and horse thief Belle Starr, and La Voisin, the seventeenth-century Queen of all Witches in France—you'll find a variety of women from the daring and outrageous to the desperate to the downright evil. Wicked? Misunderstood? Naïve? Foolish? Predatory? Manipulative? Or just rebellious? Read their stories and decide.
"[A] rollicking survey of 100 female renegades . . . this compendium of historical trivia is a lot of fun to read." — Publishers Weekly
Includes photos and illustrations
This "lively" study of female lawbreakers across centuries and cultures is "chock full of disquieting stories and truly twisted personalities" ( Booklist).
Organized A-to-Z under six categories, this book offers insight into the lives and minds of women in different centuries and different coun...
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Melissa Harrod
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September 26, 2025
Very interesting and well written!
About the author
Following her belated Literature degree, Dee Gordon has written books about Southend, Essex, the East End of London and the 1960s, and had articles published in such diverse publications as Essex Life, Best of British, Yours and Take a Break. Originally from East London, she has lived in Southend-on-Sea for over thirty years with her autistic son. For more info, see deegordon-writer.com.
Following her belated Literature degree, Dee Gordon has written books about Southend, Essex, the East End of London and the 1960s, and had articles published in such diverse publications as Essex Life, Best of British, Yours and Take a Break. Originally from East London, she has lived in Southend...
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