Bibliograph

100 women who made history, remarkable women who shaped our world, written by Stella Caldwell, Clare Hibbert, Andrea Mills, and Rona Skene ; consultant, Philip Parker

Type

Label

100 women who made history, remarkable women who shaped our world, written by Stella Caldwell, Clare Hibbert, Andrea Mills, and Rona Skene ; consultant, Philip Parker

Language

eng

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

100 women who made history

Oclc number

949640693

Responsibility statement

written by Stella Caldwell, Clare Hibbert, Andrea Mills, and Rona Skene ; consultant, Philip Parker

Sub title

remarkable women who shaped our world

Summary

"Get ready to meet some of history's wonder women. Find out what made Catherine so Great, and why millions have read Anne Frank's diary, and how Harriet Tubman led hundreds to freedom. Discover women who explored, excelled, and made their mark on history."--Page [4] of cover

Table Of Contents

Clued-up creatives. Sappho -- Mira Bai -- Emily Dickinson -- Screen stars: Marlene Dietrich ; Marilyn Monroe ; Kathryn Bigelow ; Madhuri Dixit ; Jennifer Lawrence -- Josephine Baker -- Edith Piaf -- Maria Callas -- Frida Kahlo -- Women writers: Murasaki Shikibu ; Shin Saimdang ; Mary Wollstonecraft ; Jane Austen ; Maya Angelou -- Anne Frank -- Joni Mitchell -- J.K. Rowling -- Super scientists. Hypatia -- Émilie du Châtelet -- Ada Lovelace -- Mary Anning -- Sofia Kovalevskaya -- Lise Meitner -- Marie Curie -- Healthcare heroes: Mary Seacole ; Florence Nightingale ; Edith Cavell ; Agnes Hunt ; Averil Mansfield -- Chien-Shung Wu -- Dian Fossey -- Françoise Barré-Sinoussi -- Rosalind Franklin -- Inspiring campaigners. Olympe de Gouges -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -- Harriet Tubman -- Louise Michel -- Bertha von Suttner -- Landmark moments: Princess Isabel of Brazil ; Helen Keller ; Rachel Carson ; Wangari Maathai ; Margaret Chan -- Emmeline Pankhurst -- Rosa Luxemburg -- Sophie Scholl -- Rosa Parks -- Aung San Suu Kyi -- Malala Yousafzai -- Leading ladies. Joan of Arc -- Cool queens: Hatshepsut ; Cleopatra ; Eleanor of Aquitaine ; Razia Sultana ; Queen Victoria -- Catherine the Great -- Wu Zetian -- Taytu Betul -- Queen Elizabeth I -- Sacagawea -- Maria Quitéria de Jesus -- Dolores Ibárruri -- Eleanor Roosevelt -- Indira Gandhi -- Margaret Thatcher -- Angela Merkel -- Political pioneers: Golda Meir ; Ellen Johnson Sirleaf ; Graça Machel ; Shirin Ebadi ; Benazir Bhutto -- Intrepid entrepreneurs. Bertha Benz -- Sarah Breedlove -- Coco Chanel -- Indra Nooyi -- Peggy Guggenheim -- Oprah Winfrey -- Internet impact: Carol Bartz ; Radia Perlman ; Sheryl Sandberg ; Martha Lane Fox ; Juliana Rotich -- Amazing achievers. Althea Gibson -- Nellie Bly -- High fliers: Harriet Quimby ; Eugenie Mikhailovna Shakhovskaya ; Amelia Earhart ; Amy Johnson ; Valentina Tereshkova -- Gertrude Bell -- Junko Tabei -- Wilma Rudolph -- Nova Peris -- Serena Williams -- Tanni Grey-Thompson -- Jessica Ennis-Hill -- Marta -- Let's applaud ... -- Glossary

Target audience

juvenile

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One hundred women who made history

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