History & Biography
From monarchs to military heroes, notorious to unsung, we’ll feature biographies and research on women who history labelled dangerous.
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The shocking life of Harriette Wilson
Harriette Wilson: “who captivated, charmed & dazzled her way to the heart of fashionable society, only to shock, anger & terrify her way straight back out.”
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Agatha Christie as a Dangerous Woman
Alison Joseph is a crime writer and radio playwright, former Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association, and author of the Sister Agnes series of detective novels. She has also written three novels featuring Agatha ChristieContinue reading
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The most profitable movie released by Universal Pictures in 1916 was a film on birth control and abortion, written and directed by a woman. Who was she?
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Fanny van de Grift Stevenson and Robert Louis Stevenson
Penny Fielding explores the dangerous collaboration between Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife, Fanny: granting female agency on the page and in life.
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Poet A C Clarke examines the life of a rebel: Margery Kempe. Find out more about what made her dangerous to the status quo of medieval society.
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Helen Boden writes about artist Joan Eardley, in a biography and a poem collaging the artist’s work, interests, method and life.
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Who is behind Veuve Cliquot? Emily M. Keeler examines Cliquot’s life, and the notion of upholding one woman’s success or failure as a marker for all.
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Writer Jan Carson talks about Flannery O’Connor, who was an inspiration to her when she needed it most. Read this personal, entrancing biography.
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Michelle Collins’ short story looks at a dark period of local history in a Melbourne suburb, to a time when a woman committed serial infanticide.
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