Female Warriors, Volume I
The book explores the history of women's participation in warfare from ancient times to the 19th century, highlighting their roles as soldiers, leaders, and spies. It covers various cultures, including ancient Greece, Rome, and China, as well as medieval Europe and Africa. The author examines the motivations and circumstances that led women to take up arms, often defying societal norms and expectations.
By Ellen C. Clayton · First published 1879 · Genre: History, Biography, Non-Fiction · 10 chapters · 53,839 words
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WERE it not for fear of Mrs. Grundy, whose awful visage is to the modern Briton what the Gorgon's head was to the ancient Greek, it might be said that Popular Prejudice is the deaf, deformed sister of Justice. Popular Prejudice makes up her mind on certain subjects, and is grandly unconscious of any fault within herself; ignorant that she is deaf, and that she is morally blind, although able to see every petty object that passes within her range. Popular Prejudice, like her stately cousin, Mrs. Grundy, arranges fixed rules of etiquette, of conduct, even of feeling, and never pardons the slightest infringement of the lines she marks out. A man may lay down his life for "an idea," but if it be outside the ramparts of Popular Prejudice, he does so as a rebel, maybe a fool.
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- Work type: Novel
- Author: Ellen C. Clayton
- Date: 1879 CE
- Language: English
- Genres: History, Biography, Non-Fiction, Military, Feminism
- Length: 53,839 words
- Structure: 10 chapters, 568 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Standard (8th-9th Grade)
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Genres
- History — The book provides historical accounts of female warriors.
- Biography — It includes biographical sketches of various women.
- Non-Fiction — The content is factual and based on real events.
- Military — Focuses on the military exploits and roles of women in warfare.
Tags
History · Non-Fiction · Women's Studies · Feminism · Warfare · Military History · Female Soldiers · Women in Combat · Gender Roles · Sociology · Anthropology · Cultural Studies
Contents
- Mythology. - Warlike Goddesses. - The Amazons. - The Sarmatians. - The Machlyes and Auses. - The Zaveces. - More Modern Tribes of Amazons in Asia and Africa
- Semiramis, Queen of Assyria - Harpalyce, daughter of Lycurgus, King of Thrace - Atalanta (Argonautic Expedition) - Camilla, Queen of the Volscians - Tomyris, Queen of the Massagetae - Telesilla the Poetess - The Two Artemisias (I. and II.) Queens of Caria - Mania, Governess of AEolia - Cratesipolis of Sicyon - Arsinoe, Queen of Egypt
- Hypsicrates, Queen of Mithridates the Great - Cleopatra - Candace, Queen of Ethiopia - Boadicea and her Daughters - Ancient British, Caledonian, and German Female Warriors - Combats of Roman Ladies - Nero's Amazons - Victoria, Empress of the West - Zenobia, Queen of the East - Empress Hunila, and other Gothic Amazons - Mavia, Queen of Pharan - Pharandsem, Queen of Armenia
- THE ARABS - Henda, Wife of Abu Sofian, an Arab Chief - Forka, an Arabian Lady - Women of Yemaumah - Arab and Greek heroines at the Siege of Damascus - Khaullah - Prefect of Tripoli's Daughter - Ayesha, Widow of the Prophet - Cahina the Sorceress, Queen of the Berbers - Saidet, Queen of Persia - Turkhan-Khatun, Sultana of Kharezme - Hadee'yah a Maiden who precedes the Bedouin Arabs in Battle
- Libyssa and Valasca, Queens of Bohemia - Wanda, Queen of Poland - Moors in Spain - Women of Tudmir - Female Knights of Tortosa - Alleged Origin of the word "Infantry" - Queen Carcas - Elfrida, Daughter of Alfred the Great - Igor, Grand Duchess of Russia - Richilda, Countess of Hainault
- The Crusades - French, German, and Genoese Amazons - Eleonora of Aquitaine - Matilda of Boulogne - Empress Maud - Aldrude, Countess of Bertinoro - Empress Constantia - Nichola de Camville (Barons' Wars) - Blanche of Castille, Queen-Regent of France - Women of Culm - Blanche de Rossi - Black Agnes, Countess of March - Countess de Montfort - Julia du Guesclin - Jane de Belleville, Lady of Clisson - Marzia - Margaret, Queen of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, the Semiramis of the North - Fair Maiden Lilliard (Chevy Chase) - Lady Pelham - Philippa, Queen of Denmark
- Jeanne d'Arc, the Maid of Orleans - Margaret de Attendoli, Sister of the great Sforza - Bona Lombardi and Onerata Rodiana, Female Condottieri - Marulla (Turks in Europe) - Margaret of Anjou - Jeanne Hachette - Dona Aldonza de Castillo, and Dona Maria Sarmiento (Civil Wars in Castile) - Isabel the Catholic - Caterina Sforza
- Maria d'Estrada, and other Spanish Women serving under Cortez - Catalina de Erauso, the Monja Alferez (Nun-Lieutenant) - Dona Maria Pacheco (Confederacy of the Holy Junta) - Eleonora of Toledo, Grand-Duchess of Tuscany - TURKS IN HUNGARY - Courage of a Jewess at Buda - Bravery of the Women of Temesvar, Erlau, Valpon, Agria, and Szigeth in Hungary and of Famagosta in Cyprus - Louise Labe - Mary of Hungary - Granu Weal - THE REFORMATION - Kenan Simonz Hasselaar - Women of Alkmaar - Mary, Queen of Scots - Magdalaine de Saint-Nectaire - Constance de Cezelli - Christine de Lalaing, Princess d'Espinoy - Queen Elizabeth - English and Scottish Border Heroines - Barbara of Ernecourt (Thirty Years' War) - Christina of Sweden
- THE AMAZONS IN SOUTH AMERICA
- Lady Offaley (Irish Rebellion, 1641) - Lady Arundell - Lady Bankes - Countess of Derby (Civil Wars in England) - Helena Zrinyi, Wife of Tekeli - Incident at the Coronation of William and Mary - Mademoiselle de la Charce