each chapter, where you can add the names and details of the women who really mean something to you—be they big names from history, or current affairs, or people from your own life who have inspired and amazed you. Make this book your own.
Caitlin Doyle
June 2016
CONTENTS
SAPPHO
MURASAKI SHIKIBU
SAINT HILDEGARD OF BINGEN
THE MONA LISA
ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI
APHRA BEHN
COUNTESS D’AULNOY
FAIRY TALES
JUANA INÉS DE LA CRUZ
JULIA MARGARET CAMERON
BEATRIX POTTER
VIRGINIA WOOLF
COCO CHANEL
MA RAINEY
GEORGIA O’KEEFFE
DOROTHEA LANGE
ANNI ALBERS
FEATURE: WOMEN IN PHOTOGRAPHY
MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
JOSEPHINE BAKER
KATHARINE HEPBURN
FRIDA KAHLO
GINGER ROGERS
FEATURE: FUNNY WOMEN
LUCILLE BALL
SISTER ROSETTA THARPE
BILLIE HOLIDAY
ÉDITH PIAF
ELLA FITZGERALD
PHYLLIS DILLER
MARGOT FONTEYN
MARIA CALLAS
MARILYN MONROE
MAIJA ISOLA
YAYOI KUSAMA
AUDREY HEPBURN
DELIA DERBYSHIRE
FEATURE: WOMEN IN MUSIC
DOLLY PARTON
MERYL STREEP
ANNA WINTOUR
FEATURE: FEMALE FASHION-SETTERS
OPRAH WINFREY
MADONNA
EVELYN GLENNIE
J.K. ROWLING
FEATURE: WOMEN OF LETTERS
THE NIGHTINGALES
BEYONCÉ
MISTY COPELAND
SAPPHO ONE OF THE GREATEST POETS OF ANTIQUITY
FULL NAME: Sappho
BORN: C. 620 B.C., LESBOS, GREECE
DIED: 550 B.C., LESBOS, GREECE
NATIONALITY: ANCIENT GREEK
A poetess, believed to be Sappho, from an ancient Roman fresco
“Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.”
SAPPHO
