Just like the title says. I am interested in fascinating women throughout history, and bonus if they are obscure or (nearly) lost to time. It doesn’t matter if they are heroes, villains, victims, models, pop stars, groundbreakers, etc. I just want to learn about cool and interesting women.
by mrsmedeiros_says_hi
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Two badass Victorian women who traveled alone and wrote memoirs of their adventures–
A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird
A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy by Ida Laura Pfeiffer
[The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17802875) (a Korean crown princess from the 18th century)
“The Diamond Eye” by Kate Quinn
“Angels of the Resistance” by Noelle Salazar
Both are more historical fiction than non-fiction or biographical, but are based on true life people/events
Not really obscure, but also I wouldn’t say she’s super famous either: **Ten Days in a Madhouse** by Nellie Bly is a wonderful piece of investigative journalism, written in 1887 – before investigative journalism was really a thing, and definitely before women as journalists were a thing. Bly pretended to suffer from an acute mental health issue in order to be admitted undercover to a notorious insane asylum. She wrote this book about her experience inside, as well as her difficulties leaving, as no one would believe she had been faking her condition. It’s one of the first inside looks at the reality of life for those hidden from public view because they were “crazy.”
A good biography of Bly and her groundbreaking reporting (and overall bad-assery), check out **Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist** by Brooke Kroeger.