Harriet Tubman
Escaped slave turned slave rescuer turned plantation-torching Union spymaster, she was part Moses, part Joan of Arc, part Spider-Man.
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When Byzantine forces captured her brother, this warrior poet donned the outfit of a black knight and went on a bloody rescue mission.
View ArticlePrincess Caraboo
This phony Asian royalty fooled rural England for some time – but the truth she was hiding was far darker. Cut Content: How She Pulled It Off All of her act as Caraboo had been a masterwork of social...
View ArticleYoshiko Kawashima
Bisexual cross-dressing spy princess of the Qing dynasty – a hero to some and unspeakable villain to others.
View ArticleCorn Maiden
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you undoubtedly one of the strangest Rejected Princesses: Corn Maiden, mythological Native American figure. Corn Maiden figures into a vast number of tribe...
View ArticlePetra Herrera
Gentle reader, today we fight for Pedro. Presenting Colonel Petra “Pedro” Herrera, Mexican revolutionary, demolitions expert, and leader of a battallion of an all-female brigade that boasted hundreds...
View ArticleJulie d’Aubigny
At the top of the list of history’s greatest rascals is undoubtedly “La Maupin,” Julie d’Aubigny: sword-slinger, opera singer, and larger-than-life bisexual celebrity of 17th-century France. Her life...
View ArticleNoor Inayat Khan
Noor Inayat Khan was, without a doubt, one of the bravest women to ever live. She was a British secret agent during World War II, working as a radio operator in occupied Paris. In fact, working as the...
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Sonya Golden Hand
It’s telling that even after police captured the infamous Russian thief Sofia Blyuvshtein (better known as Sonya Golden Hand1), nobody was 100% sure it was actually her. After all, she’d escaped from...
View ArticleJuleidah
“Neither here nor elsewhere,” begins this Egyptian folktale, “lived a king.” This nameless king, it’s said, loved his wife and his daughter above all things. And so when his wife died of unspecified...
View ArticleAngela Jimenez
Tomboy, daughter, spy, soldier, foster mom, innkeeper, gold miner, nurse, activist; veteran: Angela Jimenez doesn’t need a movie so much as a mini-series.
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Virginia Hall
12 34 5 67 8 9 101112 1314 151617 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 The book is available right here! For more info on it, check out here! Virginia had a very privileged childhood, which not only allowed her to...
View ArticlePrincess Caraboo
This phony Asian royalty fooled rural England for some time – but the truth she was hiding was far darker. Cut Content: How She Pulled It Off All of her act as Caraboo had been a masterwork of social...
View ArticleYoshiko Kawashima
Bisexual cross-dressing spy princess of the Qing dynasty – a hero to some and unspeakable villain to others.
View ArticleAngela Jimenez
Tomboy, daughter, spy, soldier, foster mom, innkeeper, gold miner, nurse, activist; veteran: Angela Jimenez doesn’t need a movie so much as a mini-series.
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Sonya Golden Hand
It’s telling that even after police captured the infamous Russian thief Sofia Blyuvshtein (better known as Sonya Golden Hand1), nobody was 100% sure it was actually her. After all, she’d escaped from...
View ArticleJuleidah
“Neither here nor elsewhere,” begins this Egyptian folktale, “lived a king.” This nameless king, it’s said, loved his wife and his daughter above all things. And so when his wife died of unspecified...
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Virginia Hall
12 34 5 67 8 9 101112 1314 151617 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 The book is available right here! For more info on it, check out here! Virginia had a very privileged childhood, which not only allowed her to...
View ArticlePrincess Caraboo
This phony Asian royalty fooled rural England for some time – but the truth she was hiding was far darker. Cut Content: How She Pulled It Off All of her act as Caraboo had been a masterwork of social...
View ArticleYoshiko Kawashima
Bisexual cross-dressing spy princess of the Qing dynasty – a hero to some and unspeakable villain to others.
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