Bad girls : sirens, Jezebels, murderesses, thieves, & other female villains
(2013)
By:
Yolen, Jane
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
TEEN/BIOGRAPHY/364.374/YOLEN,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, [2013]
©2013
©2013
DESCRIPTION
vii, 164 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781580891851 (reinforced for library use), 1580891853 (reinforced for library use)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Meet twenty-six of history's most notorious women. Each bad girl has a rotten reputation, but there are two sides to every tale."--Amazon.com
Harlot or hero? Liar or lady? There are two sides to every story. Meet twenty-six of history's most notorious women, and debate alongside authors Yolen and Stemple--who appear in the book as themselves in a series of comic panels--as to each girl's guilt or innocence
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CONTENTS
Introduction: Bad, mad, or thoroughly rotten --
Delilah (circa 110 BCE), a mere snip of a girl --
Jezebel (9th century BCE), a perfectly bad queen --
Cleopatra (69-30 BCE), the queen of denial --
Salome (circa 14-71 CE), a little strip of a girl --
Anne Boleyn (circa 1500-1536), she lost her head for love --
Bloody Mary (1516-1558), a woman of burning faith --
Elisabeth Báthory (1560-1614), Countess Bloodbath --
Moll Cutpurse (circa 1584-1659), high directress of the Black Dogs --
Tituba (circa 1670s-?), one witchy woman --
Anne Bonney (late 1600s-1720s) and Mary Read, pirates in petticoats --
Peggy Shippen Arnold (1760-1804), bride of treason --
Catherine the Great (1729-1796), queen of coups --
Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1817-1864), the rebel rose --
Belle Starr (1848-1889), belle of the bad-boy ball --
Calamity Jane (circa 1852-1903), courtin' calamity --
Lizzie Bordon (1860-1927), one whacky woman --
Madame Alexe Popova (1850s-1909), she popped over three hundred --
Pearl Hart (circa 1871-1925), mama's wild child --
Typhoid Mary (1869-1938), a cook without a conscience --
Mata Hari (1876-1917), the spy who loved everyone --
Ma Barker (circa 1873-1935), mother knows worst --
Beulah Annan (circa 1901-1928) and Belva Gaertner (circa 1885-1965), Chicago's merry murderesses --
Bonnie Parker (1910-1934), Clyde's girl --
Virginia Hill (1916-1966), gangster girlfriend --
Conclusion: Modern times and changing gender roles