Scandalous Women: The Lives and Loves of History's Most Notorious Women
- ISBN-10
- 0399536450
- ISBN-13
- 9780399536458
- Series
- Scandalous Women
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Author
- Elizabeth Kerri Mahon
Description
Presents stories of famous female risk takers who defied convention and beat the odds to make history, including such women as Cleopatra, Emma Hamilton, NAACP founder Ida B. Wells-Barnett, and Isadora Duncan.
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