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Login with Patreon History Thats More Than 2-Dimensional. Book 2 Now on Sale!StoriesPrincessesMapCollectionsBlogBooksBook 1Book 2Behind the ScenesAboutFAQContactAbout the AuthorNew ReadersSearchLogin with PatreonComics Nancy Wake (1912-2011) The Spy With The 5 Million Franc Bounty This most-wanted WW2 spy rescued Jews and POWs, blew up Nazi trains, and used an X-rated radio rhyme to identify herself to Britain. Well-behaved women seldom make history.Rejected Princesses celebrates those who did. Part art project, part standup routine, part book report, this site imagines what if we made animated musicals about the women of history and myth who refused to behave.New Reader? Click here!Volume Two Now On SaleA Lavishly-Illustrated Book Celebrating History's Toughest MomsAlready own a book? Click here for Behind the Scenes content!Comics Luisa Capetillo (1879-1922) The Activist Arrested For Wearing Pants In 1915, this rowdy Puerto Rican activist was arrested for wearing pants in public. It wouldn't be the last time she wore pants, or got arrested. From the blog > Whered You Go? ‘Sade’, A Pitch About An African Princess, Sells To Disney Inge Ginsberg: Death Metal Grandma Mary Ellis: One of the Last Female WW2 Pilots In Nairobi’s Largest Slum, These Young Ballerinas Dream Big Comics Mkabayi kaJama (c.1750-c.1843) Power Behind the Zulu Throne One of the most powerful women in Zulu history, this cursed princess did what was necessary to protect the realm. Comics Timoclea (4th century BCE) The Woman Who Threw Her Rapist in a Well When a soldier raped her, this woman tossed him in a well and threw rocks at him until he died. Comics Vitka Kempner (1920-2012) Avenger of the Holocaust Spy, smuggler, saboteur, partisan: this Jewish woman refused to go like a lamb to the slaughter, and fought the Nazis tooth and nail... even after the war, when she, alongside others, poisoned thousands of Nazi POWs in a revenge plot. Collection: Defenders > Mariya OktyabrskayaWhen her husband was killed in WW2, she sold all their belongings, bought a tank, named it Fighting Girlfriend, and started killing Nazis. TomyrisWhen the most powerful man in the world made plans on her country, she: turned down his marriage proposal, destroyed his armies, and defiled his head so famously that she became legend for centuries thereafter. Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones)This leader of the labor movement suffered imprisonment, defamation, and untold misery to battle against forces that most of us just take for granted.Comics Cornelia Sorabji (1866-1954) Protector. Reformer. Lawyer. One of the first Indian women to practice law, she fought against -- and inside of -- a system that held no room for her. Comics Sarah Biffin (1784-1850) The Artist Who Painted With Her Mouth Born without arms or legs, this artist learned to write, sew, and paint with her mouth - and came to work for kings and queens. Comics Toregene Khatun (?-1246) Empress of the Mongols Although her tribe was destroyed and she was forced into an unwanted marriage, this indomitable woman came to run the world's largest empire - with a woman as her companion. Collection: Saints > Mai BhagoThis Sikh warrior saint led 40 deserters back into battle and in so doing, possibly saved her entire religion from extinction. Tamar of GeorgiaSaint, sovereign, and fiercely independent woman, she quashed two rebellions from her ex-husband, expanded her nation's borders, and ushered in a golden age. Joan of ArcThe infamous teen girl who helped end the Hundred Years War and save France but do you know how she got to such prominence? This book has an answer, and it involves another powerful woman, operating behind the scenesComics Alakhai Beki (c.1191-[post 1230]) Princess Who Runs the State This Mongol stood up to the most fearsome man in the world and in so doing, prevented a genocide. Comics Anne Farquharson-Mackintosh (1723-1787) The Lady Who Became a Colonel When the true king of the Scots came to reclaim the throne, this spirited woman went up against her husband to back her chosen sovereign. Well-behaved women seldom make history.Rejected Princesses celebrates those who did. Part art project, part standup routine, part book report, this site imagines what if we made animated musicals about the women of history and myth who refused to behave.New Reader? Click here!Volume Two Now On SaleA Lavishly-Illustrated Book Celebrating History's Toughest MomsAlready own a book?Click here for Behind the Scenes content! Modern-Day Women Inge GinsbergAs a Holocaust survivor, her poetry was too dark for some, but it was perfect for death metal. Mary EllisAt age 101, this woman was one of the last surviving female pilots from WW2, and older than the Royal Air Force by one year - she died today. Jess WadeShe wrote 270 Wikipedia articles in a single year -- “I had a target for doing one a day, but sometimes I get too excited and do three.” Miriam O’Brien UnderhillMen? Mountaineer Miriam O'Brien Underhill Don't Need No Stinkin' Men - She pioneered and argued for "manless" climbing in a DeDe PhillipsShe was attacked while putting up a “Women who behave rarely make history” bumper sticker on her truck. No, seriously. Mary Ann Shadd CaryShe was the first black woman in North America to edit and publish a newspaper, one of the first black female lawyers in the United States and an advocate for granting women the right to vote. Pinar ToprakShe’s the first female composer to score a major superhero movie, with the female-led Captain Marvel. Piera AielloForced to marry a mobster, she escaped, ran for parliament and won -- while obscuring her face. But now, she's showing it freely. 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