![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You probably haven’t heard of Nzinga, queen of what’s now Angola in the 1600s, or Lozen, an Apache warrior in the 1800s. You may have heard of Josephine Baker, but you likely didn’t know she spied against the Nazis or was friends with Grace Kelly. You’ve heard, probably, of Margaret Hamilton (the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz), but you likely didn’t know of the determination that got her to that part. There’s a lot of material here, and much of it will be new to many readers. These 29 profiles run the gamut from astronaut to rock star, actress to queen, rebel fighter to scientist. (First Second has previously translated Bagieu’s fiction graphic novel Exquisite Corpse and her fictionalized biography of Mama Cass Elliot, California Dreamin’.) I should have had more faith - I found myself surprised and enlightened by how many of these women I hadn’t heard of, and the amazing things they did. There’s been quite the trend lately in collections of short write-ups of women in history you may not have heard of, so I didn’t have high expectations for Pénélope Bagieu’s Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World. ![]()
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