Scandalous Women: The Lives and Loves of History's Most Notorious Women

349 Pages·2011·2.04 MB·English

by  Elizabeth Kerri Mahon

Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction

ONE - Warrior Queens
TWO - Wayward Wives
THREE - Scintillating Seductresses
FOUR - Crusading Ladies
FIVE - Wild Women of the West
SIX - Amorous Artists
SEVEN - Amazing Adventuresses

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
ON PAGE AND SCREEN
CREDITS
PRAISE FOR Scandalous Women

“How can one not love a book that includes among its scandalous subjects Zelda
Fitzgerald, Camille Claudel, and Calamity Jane? My only criticism of Elizabeth
Kerri Mahon’s engaging book on the lives of women who have helped write the
pages of history is that it is not longer, given the host of others who deserve to be
rescued from the footnotes of history.”
—Paula Uruburu, author of American Eve

“Brains, boldness, beauty, courage, and craziness all come together in this
entertaining account of some of history’s wildest women.”
—Hallie Rubenhold,
author of The Covent Garden Ladies and The Lady in Red

“As delectable as dark chocolate on a winter night, Scandalous Women offers
definitive proof that bad girls do have more fun. A thoroughly enjoyable romp
through women’s history.”
—Kris Waldherr,
author of Doomed Queens

“A lively and informative look at the women from many walks of life who have
shaken up history—and made it.”
—Susan Higginbotham,
author of The Queen of Last Hopes

“With more verve than Josephine Baker’s banana dance, Elizabeth Kerri Mahon
brings together a pantheon of history’s most scintillating women and jam-packs
each and every story with fascinating details and lively humor.”
—Carlyn Beccia, author of The Raucous Royals

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mahon, Elizabeth Kerri.
Scandalous women : the lives and loves of history’s most notorious women /
“A Perigee Book.”
Includes bibliographical references.
eISBN : 978-1-101-47881-3
1. Women—Biography. I. Title.
CT3203.M35 2011
920.72—dc22
2010045764

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