It is completely delightful, too, that Bagieu includes Giorgina Reid, who in the 1970s managed to preserve a section of the Long Island coastline and the lighthouse that still stands on it by constructing, almost single-handedly, a vast series of terraces made from sand and reeds.īut perhaps the woman who fascinated me most of all was Frances Glessner Lee. What names to pick out? It was amazing to learn that the movie star Hedy Lamarr was also a noted inventor (bored with acting, she invented a radio that could not be jammed, the better to help US troops during the war) and I thrilled to the rise of Nzinga, the queen who ruthlessly ruled Ndongo and Matamba (present day-Angola) in the 17th century (she murdered her own brother to get there). One of the ‘seriously zippy’ cartoons from Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World.
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