Mairead Farrell
Irish republican paramilitary
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Chrodielde
Ambitious French nun in the 500s
Fanya Kaplan
Russian revolutionary who shot and seriously injured Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Bolshevik Party and the future leader of the Soviet Union.
Elizabeth Báthory
Hungarian noblewoman accused of torturing and killing numerous girls and women in the 1600s
Mamie Cadden
Irish midwife and abortionist
Barbara Erni
Renowned Liechtenstein con artist and thief
Mary Duignan
Irish criminal and prostitute known as Chicago May
Lilian Lenton
Militant British suffragette
Madeleine Smith
Madeleine Smith’s trial for the murder of her lover, Emile L’Angelier, in 1857, combined those twin Victorian obsessions, sex and death, in a way that not only led to questions about womanhood in general, but about the whole fabric of society.
Charlotte Marsh
One of the first suffragettes to go on hunger strike, she was one of the most effective, professional organisers of the Women’s Social and Political Union working at various moments in Yorkshire (1909), Oxford (1910), Portsmouth and Southampton (1911-12).