Preface | p. 9 |
Helen of Troy | p. 11 |
Artists | p. 15 |
Dante & Beatrice | p. 15 |
Aphra Behn | p. 16 |
Jane Austen | p. 18 |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning | p. 21 |
Helen Bradley | p. 24 |
Coco Chanel | p. 28 |
Enid Blyton | p. 30 |
Entertainers and Stars | p. 34 |
Greta Garbo | p. 34 |
Joyce Grenfell | p. 36 |
Marilyn Monroe | p. 40 |
Grade Fields | p. 43 |
Margot Fonteyn | p. 46 |
Battleaxes | p. 49 |
Laura Ormiston Chant | p. 49 |
Mary Whitehouse | p. 52 |
Scientists | p. 55 |
Margaret Ann Bulkley | p. 55 |
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson | p. 57 |
Marie Curie | p. 62 |
Mistresses and Favourites | p. 66 |
Roxelana | p. 66 |
Nell Gwynn | p. 69 |
Abigail Masham | p. 72 |
Sarah Churchill | p. 74 |
Françoise d' Aubigné | p. 78 |
Jeanne-Antoinette d'Étoiles | p. 81 |
Jeanne Bécu | p. 87 |
Peggy Eaton | p. 90 |
Lillie Langtry | p. 92 |
Eva Braun | p. 96 |
Clara Petacci | p. 98 |
Wives | p. 103 |
Anne Hathaway | p. 103 |
Elizabeth Pepys | p. 105 |
Mary Anne Disraeli | p. 109 |
Jane Carlyle | p. 112 |
Lady Emily Tennyson | p. 114 |
Alice Liddell | p. 117 |
Magda Goebbels | p. 119 |
Ruth Bell Graham | p. 122 |
Heroines | p. 125 |
Lady Godiva | p. 125 |
Joan of Arc | p. 126 |
Grace Darling | p. 128 |
Mary Seacole | p. 131 |
Edith Cavell | p. 133 |
Eva Perón | p. 135 |
Phyllis Thom | p. 139 |
Anne Frank | p. 141 |
Sophie Scholl | p. 144 |
Princess Diana | p. 147 |
Trollops | p. 153 |
Skittles | p. 153 |
Ruth Ellis | p. 157 |
Christine Keeler | p. 161 |
Monsters | p. 166 |
Lady Macbeth | p. 166 |
Lady Rochford | p. 168 |
Ulrike Meinhof | p. 171 |
Rosemary West | p. 173 |
Political Leaders | p. 179 |
Madame Roland | p. 179 |
Margaret Thatcher | p. 182 |
Benazir Bhutto | p. 187 |
Aung San Suu Kyi | p. 190 |
Shirley Williams | p. 192 |
Earlier Famous Queens and Rulers | p. 196 |
Queen of Sheba | p. 196 |
Livia | p. 198 |
Boudica | p. 201 |
The Two Matildas | p. 204 |
Queen Isabella | p. 207 |
Diane de Poitiers | p. 212 |
Catherine de Medici | p. 215 |
Elizabeth of York | p. 221 |
Elizabeth I | p. 224 |
Later Famous Queens and Rulers | p. 229 |
Queen Christina | p. 229 |
Henrietta Maria | p. 232 |
Bess of Hardwick | p. 238 |
Anne of Denmark | p. 242 |
Catherine of Braganza | p. 246 |
Queen Caroline | p. 248 |
Princess Mathilde | p. 251 |
Queen Victoria | p. 253 |
Liliuokalani | p. 259 |
Infamous Queens and Rulers | p. 262 |
Aelfthryth | p. 262 |
Emma | p. 264 |
Judith | p. 268 |
Lucrezia Borgia | p. 270 |
Mary Tudor | p. 277 |
Tz'u Hsi | p. 280 |
Radicals and Pioneers | p. 283 |
Mary Astell | p. 283 |
Mary Wollstonecraft | p. 284 |
Madame de Staël | p. 287 |
Harriet Martineau | p. 290 |
Isabella Beeton | p. 293 |
Annie Besant | p. 298 |
Emily Hobhouse | p. 302 |
Fanny Lee Chaney | p. 307 |
Maria Boulding | p. 309 |
Social Reformers | p. 312 |
Selena Hastings | p. 312 |
Frances Buss | p. 314 |
Josephine Butler | p. 315 |
Octavia Hill | p. 318 |
Catherine Booth | p. 320 |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | p. 322 |
Matilda Ashurst Briggs | p. 324 |
Helen Suzman | p. 327 |
Maya Angelou | p. 329 |
Notes | p. 333 |
Select Bibliography | p. 370 |
Index | p. 380 |
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