Introduction: Bad, mad, or thoroughly rotten
Delilah (circa 110 BCE), a mere snip of a girl
Jezebel (9th century BCE), a perfectly bad queen
Cleopatra (69-30 BCE), the queen of denial
Salome (circa 14-71 CE), a little strip of a girl
Anne Boleyn (circa 1500-1536), she lost her head for love
Bloody Mary (1516-1558), a woman of burning faith
Elisabeth Bathory (1560-1614), Countess Bloodbath
Moll Cutpurse (circa 1584-1659), high directress of the Black Dogs
Tituba (circa 1670s-?), one witchy woman
Anne Bonney (late 1600s-1720s) and Mary Read, pirates in petticoats
Peggy Shippen Arnold (1760-1804), bride of treason
Catherine the Great (1729-1796), queen of coups
Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1817-1864), the rebel rose
Belle Starr (1848-1889), belle of the bad-boy ball
Calamity Jane (circa 1852-1903), courtin' calamity
Lizzie Bordon (1860-1927), one whacky woman
Madame Alexe Popova (1850-1909), she popped over three hundred
Pearl Hart (circa 1871-1925), mama's wild child
Typhoid Mary (1869-1938), a cook without a conscience
Mata Hari (1876-1917), the spy who loved everyone
Ma Barker (circa 1873-1935), mother knows worst
Beulah Annan (circa 1901-1928) and Belva Gaertner (circa 1885-1965), Chicago's merry murderesses
Bonnie Parker (1910-1934), Clyde's girl
Virginia Hill (1916-1966), gangster girlfriend
Conclusion: Modern times and changing gender roles.
