![]() 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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