Fantastically Great Women Who Made History
Kate Pankhurst’s follow up to the phenomenal Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World continues to celebrate remarkable women throughout history who blazed a trail not only as leaders, but also as revolutionaries. From a pirate queen to a super spy, a female pharaoh of Egypt to a woman who was simply out of this world, this book is crammed with many familiar and some less familiar names from 3,500 years of history.
The difficulties faced by the women help readers understand the significance of each woman’s achievement, such as in the case of tenacious Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave who devoted her time as part of the underground railroad to free other slaves, despite huge danger to herself. Taking a stand on women’s rights despite hostility towards women, suffragette Flora Drummond and revolutionary poet Qiu Jin also feature. Even working in the area of science or technology could prove difficult, as women weren’t expected to shine, as Ada Lovelace, Valentina Tereshkova and Dr Elizabeth Blackwell proved. Pankhurst’s illustration is dynamic and bursting with the women in action. Her quirky cartoon characters of the heroines are instantly likable – they show the women as thoughtful, intuitive and driven, with speech bubbles of significant quotes. The nuggets of facts explaining how ambitious these women were are set out in short, informative paragraphs – making history very interesting and sure to stimulate any would-be historian. A must-read in any child’s nonfiction library.
