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020 _a9781580891851 (hbk.)
020 _a1580891853 (hbk.)
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100 _aYolen, Jane,
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_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aBad girls :
_bsirens, Jezebels, murderesses, thieves, and other female villains /
_cJane Yolen and Heidi E.Y. Stemple ; illustrated by Rebecca Guay.
260 _aWatertown, Mass. :
_bCharlesbridge ;
_aEnfield :
_bPublishers Group UK [distributor],
_c2013.
263 _a201303.
300 _a176 pages;
_billustrations;
_c22.9 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _aIntroduction: 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 Bathory (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 (1850-1909), 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.
520 _a"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.
520 _aHarlot 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.
650 0 _aFemale offenders
_vBiography
_vJuvenile literature.
_940778
650 0 _aFemmes fatales
_vBiography
_vJuvenile literature.
_940779
650 0 _aWomen murderers
_vBiography
_vJuvenile literature.
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700 1 _aStemple, Heidi E. Y.
700 1 _aGuay-Mitchell, Rebecca.
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