Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines, Hellions, and Heretics

by Jason Porath

  Moll Cutpurse

  Middleton, Thomas, Thomas Dekker, and Jennifer Panek. 2011. The Roaring Girl: Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

  Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland

  Goodman, Matthew. 2013. Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World. New York: Ballantine Books.

  Trung Trac and Trung Nhi

  Fraser, Antonia. 1989. The Warrior Queens. New York: Knopf.

  Rigden, Stephen. 2007. “Who Was the Warrior Woman, Le Chan?” Around the World, March. http://www.phespirit.info/places/2007_03_vietnam_1.htm.

  Tran, Tuyet A., and Chu V. Nguyen. n.d. “Trung Trac and Trung Nhi.” Viet Touch. http://www.viettouch.com/trungsis/.

  Womack, Sarah. 1995. “The Remakings of a Legend: Women and Patriotism in the Hagiography of the Tru’ng Sisters.” Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 9 (2): 31–50.

  Yaa Asantewaa

  Agyeman-Duah, Ivor, and Osei Boateng. 2000. “Yaa Asantewaa: A Woman of Iron.” New African 391 (December): 40.

  Black History Pages. n.d. “Nana Prempeh I (1870–1931).” http://www.blackhistorypages.net/pages/nanaprempehi.php.

  Boahen, A. Adu, and Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong. 2003. Yaa Asantewaa and the Asante-British War of 1900–1. Accra and Oxford: Sub-Saharan Publishers and James Currey.

  Brempong, Arhin. 2000. “The Role of Nana Yaa Asantewaa in the 1900 Asante War of Resistance.” Le Griot 8.

  McCaskie, T. C. 2007. “The Life and Afterlife of Yaa Asantewaa.” Africa 77 (22): 151–79.

  Wilson, Tracy V., and Holly Frey. 2014. “The Yaa Asantewaa War of Independence.” Stuff You Missed in History Class (podcast), June 25. http://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/the-yaa-asantewaa-war-of-.

  Gertrude Bell

  Adams, Amanda. 2010. Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure. Vancouver: Greystone Books.

  Frey, Holly, and Tracy V. Wilson. 2012. “Gertrude Bell: The Uncrowned Queen of Iraq.” Stuff You Missed in History Class (podcast), November 19. http://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/gertrude-bell-the-uncrowned-queen-of-iraq/.

  Eustaquia de Souza and Ana Lezama de Urinza

  Vela, Bartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y. 1975. Tales of Potosí. Edited by B. C. Padden. Translated by Frances M. López-Morillas. Providence: Brown University Press.

  Mary Bowser

  Abbott, Karen. 2014. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War. New York: HarperCollins.

  Pope Joan

  Boureau, Alain. 2001. The Myth of Pope Joan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

  Greer, Mary K. 2009. “Papess Maifreda Visconti of the Guglielmites—New Evidence.” Mary K. Greer’s Tarot Blog, November 7. https://marygreer.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/papess-maifreda-visconti-of-the-guglielmites%E2%80%94new-evidence/.

  Kirsch, Johann Peter. 1910. “Popess Joan.” In The Catholic Encyclopedia, vol. 8. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Reprinted at New Advent, http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08407a.htm.

  Rustici, Craig M. 2006. The Afterlife of Pope Joan: Deploying the Popess Legend in Early Modern England. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

  Nwanyeruwa

  Birrell Gray Commission. 1929. “This is Emena Okpobo, speaking of the carnage at Utu Etim Ekpo Public Records Office in December, 1929.” http://web.archive.org/web/20060907035421/http://jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu/~plarson/syllabi/122/reading/igbo/igbo.htm.

  Evans, Marisa K. n.d. “Aba Women’s Riots (November–December 1929).” BlackPast.org. http://www.blackpast.org/gah/aba-womens-riots-november-december-1929.

  Falade, Kayode. 2013. “Ikot Abasi: Celebrating Heroines of Aba Riots.” National Mirror Online, August 3. http://en.africatime.com/nigeria/articles/ikot-abasi-celebrating-heroines-aba-riots.

  Zukas, Lorna Lueker. 2009. “Women’s War of 1929.” In International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present, edited by Immanuel Ness, 3634–3635. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

  Mary Lacy

  Guillery, Peter. 2000. “The Further Adventures of Mary Lacy.” The Georgian Group Journal 10: 61–69. http://content.historicengland.org.uk/content/docs/research/marylacyweb.pdf.

  Jonklaas, Owen. 2014. “Mary Lacy, the Female Shipwright.” Tall Tales and True: Stories from My Family Tree, April 12. https://familyhistorytales.wordpress.com/2014/04/12/mary-lacy-the-female-shipwright/.

  Stark, Suzanne J. 1996. Female Tars: Women Aboard Ship in the Age of Sail. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press.

  Josefina “Joey” Guerrero

  “CIA Analyst Edward Hauck Dies at Age 72.” 1996. Washington Post, June 28.

  “Joey Gains Citizenship After Long Struggle.” 1967. Carville Star, vol. 28 (2), November–December.

  Johnson, Thomas M. 1951. “Joey’s Quiet War.” Reader’s Digest, August.

  “A Letter from the Publisher.” 1953. Time, August 24.

  “News of Former Carville Patients.” 1964. Carville Star, vol. 24 (2), November–December.

  Schexnyder, Elizabeth. 2009. “Joey G. Remembered.” Carville Star, vol. 64, June.

  Chiyome Mochizuki

  Hayes, Stephen K., and Mike Lee. 1984. Legacy of the Night Warrior. Burbank, CA: Ohara Publications.

  Nana Asma’u

  Heath, Jennifer. 2004. The Scimitar and the Veil: Extraordinary Women of Islam. Mahwah, NJ: Hidden Spring.

  Mack, Beverly B. and Jean Boyd. 2000. Excerpts from One Woman’s Jihad: Nana Asma’u, Scholar and Scribe (Bloomington: Indiana University Press). Reprinted at Women in World History, http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/p/214.html.

  Razainc. 2015. “Nana Asma’u: Leader of Women’s Rights in Islam and West Africa.” Loonwatch.com. April 6. http://www.loonwatch.com/2015/04/nana-asmau-leader-of-womens-rights-in-islam-and-west-africa/.

  Tasmeem. 2012. “Nana Asma’u-Scholar, Poet, Community Leader, Educator.” Mosaic: Recognizing Extraordinary Muslim Women, July 3. https://mosaicofmuslimwomen.wordpress.com/2012/07/03/then-nana-asmau-scholar-poet-community-leader-educator/.

  Wadlow, René. 2015. “A Pre-history of Boko Haram: The Long Shadow of Usman dan Fodio.” Toward Freedom, February 9. http://www.towardfreedom.com/30-archives/africa/3808-a-pre-history-of-boko-haram-.

  Julie “La Maupin” d’Aubigny

  Burrows, Jim. 2008. “The Adventures of La Maupin.” http://www.eldacur.com/~brons/Maupin/LaMaupin.html.

  Gardiner, Kelly. n.d. “The Real Life of Julie d’Aubigny.” https://kellygardiner.com/fiction/books/goddess/the-real-life-of-julie-daubigny/.

  Malcolm, Robert. 1855. Curiosities of Biography: or, Memoirs of Wonderful and Extraordinary Characters. London: R. Griffin.

  Nanny of the Maroons

  Gottlieb, Karla Lewis. 2000. The Mother of Us All: A History of Queen Nanny, Leader of the Windward Jamaican Maroons. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.

  Xtabay

  Preuss, Mary H. 2005. Yucatec Maya Stories: From Chen-Ja to the Milpa. Lancaster, CA: Labyrinthos.

  Triay, Mario Diaz. n.d. Excerpt from Guia Turistica de la Peninsula de Yucatan, La tierra de los Mayas (A Tour Guide of the Yucatan Peninsula, Land of the Maya). Reprinted at Merida (Mexico) Tourism Office, http://www.merida.gob.mx/turismo/contenido/cultura_in/xtabay.htm.

  Tomoe Gozen

  Tyler, Royall. 1991. “Tomoe: The Woman Warrior.” In Heroic with Grace: Legendary Women of Japan, edited by Chieko Irie Mulhern. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.

  Empress Theodora

  Atwater, Richard, trans. 1927. Procopius: Secret History. Chicago: P. Covici.

  Browning, Robert. 1971. Justinian and Theodora. New York: Praeger.

  Rani Lakshmibai

  Devi, Mahasweta. 2010. The Queen of Jhansi. Translated by Sagaree Sengupta and Mandira Sengupta. Calcutta and New York: Seagull Books.

  Mariya Oktyabrskaya

  Sakaida, Henry. 2003. Heroines of the Soviet Union 1941–45. Oxford: Osprey.

  Yael

  Judge
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  Rymanover, Menahem Mendel. 1996. The Torah Discourses of the Holy Tzaddik Reb Menachem Mendel of Rimanov, 1745–1815. Translated by Dov Levine. Hoboken, NJ: KTAV Publishing House.

  Watts, Joel L. 2010. “Judges 4.17–22: The Rape of Sisera?” Unsettled Christianity, December 22. http://unsettledchristianity.com/judges-4-17-22-the-rape-of-sisera/.

  Wallada bint al-Mustakfi

  Adarsh, K. R. 2005. “Woman of Distinction: Wallada Bint al-Mustakfi: The Poetess of Andalus.” Al-Shindagah 67, November–December. http://www.alshindagah.com/Novdec2005/woman.html.

  Bat-Shimeon, Miriam. 2011. “Wallada bint al-Mustakfi.” Miriam’s Middle Eastern Research Blog, April 11. https://awalimofstormhold.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/wallada-bint-al-mustakfi/.

  Segol, Marla. 2009. “Representing the Body in Poems by Medieval Muslim Women.” Medieval Feminist Forum 45 (1): 147–169.

  Ada Lovelace

  Moore, Doris Langley. 1977. Ada, Countess of Lovelace: Byron’s Legitimate Daughter. New York: Harper & Row.

  Morrison, Philip, Emily Morrison, and Charles Babbage. 1961. Charles Babbage: On the Principles and Development of the Calculator and Other Seminal Writings. New York: Dover Publications.

  Laskarina Bouboulina

  Demertzis-Bouboulis, Philip. 2001. Laskarina Bouboulina. Spestai, Greece: Museum Bouboulinas.

  Ching Shih

  Murray, Dian H. 1987. Pirates of the South China Coast, 1790–1810. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

  Yuan, Yung-lun. 2011. History of the Pirates Who Infested the China Sea from 1807 to 1810 (1831). Translated by Karl Friedrich Neumann. London: Cambridge University Press/Oriental Translation Fund.

  Yuan, Yung-lun. 2016. Record of Pacifying the South China Seas. Translated by Jeanette Wu.

  Christine de Pizan

  Adams, Tracy. 2014. Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press.

  Carr, Allyson Ann. 2011. “Diction as Philosophy: Reading the Work of Christine de Pizan and Luce Irigaray to Write a Hermeneutics of Socially Transformative Fiction-Mediated Philosophy.” Institute for Christian Studies.

  Hindman, Sandra L. 1984. “With Ink and Mortar: Christine de Pizan’s Cite des Dames.” Feminist Studies 10 (3): 457–83.

  Harriet Tubman

  Clinton, Catherine. 2004. Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom. Boston: Little, Brown.

  Anne Hutchinson

  LaPlante, Eve. 2004. American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans. San Francisco: Harper San Francisco.

  Petra “Pedro” Herrera

  Fuentes, Andres Resendez. 1995. “Battleground Women: Soldaderas and Female Soldiers in the Mexican Revolution.” The Americas 51 (4): 525–53.

  Salas, Elizabeth. 1990. Soldaderas in the Mexican Military: Myths and History. Austin: University of Texas Press.

  A’isha bint abi Bakr

  Heath, Jennifer. 2004. The Scimitar and the Veil: Extraordinary Women of Islam. Mahwah, NJ: Hidden Spring.

  Spellberg, Denise A. 1994. Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of ‘A’isha bint abi Bakr. New York: Columbia University Press.

  Olga of Kiev

  Cross, Samuel Hazzard, and Olgerd P. Sherbowitz-Wetzor. 1953. The Russian Primary Chronicle: Laurentian Text. Cambridge, MA: Mediaeval Academy of America.

  Agontime and the Dahomey Amazons

  Alpern, Stanley B. 1998. “On the Origins of the Amazons of Dahomey.” History in Africa 25: 9–25.

  Araujo, Ana Lucia. 2011. “History, Memory, and Imagination: Na Agontime, a Dahomean Queen in Brazil.” In Beyond Tradition: African Women and Their Cultural Spaces, edited by Toyin Falola and Sati U. Fwatshak, 45–68. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.

  Edgerton, Robert B. 2000. Warrior Women: The Amazons of Dahomey and the Nature of War. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.

  Mata Hari

  Shipman, Pat. 2007. Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari. New York: William Morrow.

  Josephine Baker

  Baker, Jean-Claud, and Chris Chase. 1993. Josephine: The Hungry Heart. New York: Random House.

  Dhat al-Himma

  Kruk, Remke. 2014. The Warrior Women of Islam: Forgotten Heroines of the Great Arabian Tales. London: I. B. Tauris.

  Lyons, M. C. 1995. The Arabian Epic, vol. 3, Texts: Heroic and Oral Storytelling. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

  Alice Clement

  Smith, Bryan. 2003. “Alice Clement: The Detective Wore Pearls.” Chicago, December 1. http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/December-2003/The-Detective-Wore-Pearls/.

  Undine. 2015. “Alice Clement of the Chicago P.D.” Strange Company, April 6. http://strangeco.blogspot.ca/2015/04/alice-clement-of-chicago-pd.html.

  Shajar al-Durr

  Duncan, David J. 1998. “Scholarly Views of Shajarat al-Durr: A Need for Consensus.” Chronicon 2 (4): 1–35. http://www.ucc.ie/chronicon/duncfra.htm.

  Nicholson, Helen J. 2004. The Crusades. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

  Smith, Bonnie G. 2008. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History. New York: Oxford University Press.

  Amba/Sikhandi

  Buck, William, trans. 1973. Mahabharata. Berkeley: University of California Press.

  Khawlah bint al-Azwar

  Heath, Jennifer. 2004. The Scimitar and the Veil: Extraordinary Women of Islam. Mahwah, NJ: Hidden Spring.

  Pauw, Linda Grant De. 1998. Battle Cries and Lullabies: Women in War from Prehistory to the Present. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.

  Qazi, Moin. 2015. Women in Islam: Exploring New Paradigms. Chennai, India: Notion Press.

  Waqidi, Muhammad ibn ‘Umar. 2005. The Islamic Conquest of Syria: A Translation of Futuhusham: The Inspiring History of the Sahabah’s Conquest of Syria. Translated by Mawlana Sulayman al-Kindi. London: Ta-Ha Publishers Ltd.

  Princess Caraboo

  Gutch, John Matthew. 1817. Caraboo. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy.

  Anita Garibaldi

  Sergio, Lisa. 1969. I Am My Beloved: The Life of Anita Garibaldi. New York: Weybright and Talley.

  Tomyris

  Rawlinson, George, trans. 1862. “Herodotus: Queen Tomyris of the Massagetai and the Defeat of the Persians Under Cyrus.” Excerpt from Herodotus: The History (New York: Dutton & Company) at Fordham University, August 1998. http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/tomyris.asp.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Bartley, Paula. 2002. Emmeline Pankhurst. London: Routledge.

  Marjana

  Lyons, Malcolm C., trans. 2010. The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights. London: Penguin Books.

  Mai Bhago

  Kohli, M. S. 2003. Miracles of Ardaas: Incredible Adventures and Survivals. New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company.

  Raju, Karam Singh. 1999. Guru Gobind Singh: Prophet of Peace. Chandigarh, India: Ratna Memorial Charitable Trust.

  Hortense Mancini and Marie Mancini

  Carroll, Leslie. 2008. Royal Affairs: A Lusty Romp Through the Extramarital Adventures That Rocked the British Monarchy. New York: New American Library.

  Goldsmith, Elizabeth C. 2012. The Kings’ Mistresses: The Liberated Lives of Marie Mancini, Princess Colonna, and Hortense Mancini, Duchess Mazarin. New York: Public Affairs.

  Nzinga Mbande

  Cross, Robin, and Rosalind Miles. 2011. Warrior Women: 3000 Years of Courage and Heroism. London: Quercus Publishing Inc.

  Fraser, Antonia. 1989. The Warrior Queens. New York: Knopf.

  Lienhard, Martín. 2008. “Queen Njinga’s Milongas: The ‘Dialogue’ Between Portuguese and Africans in the Congo and the Angola War (Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries).” In Afrimericas: Itineraries, Dialogues, and Sounds, edited by Tiago de Oliveira Pinto Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger. Madrid/Frankfurt: Iberoamericana/Vervuert. Reprinted at http://www.buala.org/en/to-read/queen-njinga-s-milongas-the-dialogue-between-portuguese-and-africans-in-the-congo-and-the-an.
r />   Stapleton, Timothy J. 2013. A Military History of Africa. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.

  Hypatia

  Damascius. 1993. “The Life of Hypatia.” In The Suda by Damascius, translated by Jeremiah Reedy. http://www.cosmopolis.com/alexandria/hypatia-bio-suda.html.

  Grout, James. n.d. “Hypatia.” Encyclopedia Romana. http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/greece/paganism/hypatia.html.

  Richeson, A. W. 1940. “Hypatia of Alexandria.” National Mathematics Magazine 15 (2, November): 74–82.

  Scholasticus, Socrates. n.d. “The Life of Hypatia.” In Ecclesiastical History by Socrates Scholasticus. http://www.cosmopolis.com/alexandria/hypatia-bio-socrates.html.

  Whitfield, Bryan J. “The Beauty of Reasoning: A Reexamination of Hypatia of Alexandria.” The Mathematics Educator 6 (1): 14–21. http://math.coe.uga.edu/tme/issues/v06n1/4whitfield.pdf.

  Jezebel

  1 Kings, 2 Kings. In Holy Bible: New International Version.

  Gaines, Janet Howe. 2000. “How Bad Was Jezebel?” Bible Review, October. http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/people-in-the-bible/how-bad-was-jezebel/.

  Hazleton, Lesley. 2007. Jezebel: The Untold Story of the Bible’s Harlot Queen. New York: Doubleday.

  Qiu Jin

  Ono, Kazuko, and Joshua A. Fogel. 1989. Chinese Women in a Century of Revolution, 1850–1950. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

  Rankin, Mary Backus. 1975. “The Emergence of Women at the End of the Ch’ing: The Case of Ch’iu Chin.” In Women in Chinese Society, edited by Margery Wolf and Roxane Widke. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

  Yoshiko Kawashima

  “Asian Mata Hari Is Faded Beauty.” 1948. Spokesman-Review, March 19.

  Crowdy, Terry. 2006. The Enemy Within: A History of Espionage. Oxford: Osprey.

  “Daughter of Chinese Prince Helps Japan.” 1933. Berkeley Daily Gazette, February 23.

  “The Jap Cinderella Who Stabbed Us in the Back.” 1942. Milwaukee Sentinel, April 12.

  “The Japs’ 100-Faced Spy Master and His Masquerading Mistress.” 1942. Milwaukee Sentinel, February 1.

  “Manchuria’s Joan of Arc.” 1934. Berkeley Daily Gazette, January 10.

  Shao, Dan. 2005. “Princess, Traitor, Soldier, Spy: Aisin Gioro Xianyu and the Dilemma of Manchu Identity.” In Crossed Histories: Manchuria in the Age of Empire, edited by Mariko Tamanoi. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.