The Gun Moll. The Voodoo Queen. The Black Widow. Why are we so fascinated with archetypally wicked women?
Whether fictionalized or not, we instantly recognize these women in movies, television, plays and books; even if we don't know their names, we know what they were accused of. But who were the real ladies behind these archetypes? THE INFAMOUS WOMEN OF HISTORY ANTHOLOGY, Volume I reveals the truth behind four unconventional, lawbreaking women who become so iconic in our collective memory that we ignore the reality of their lives for the mythology surrounding their exploits.
Bonnie Parker was just another girl next door trying to survive the Depression--but when she met Clyde Barrow, their crime spree across the Midwest solidified her reputation as the ultimate gun moll and gangster girlfriend. While people of color struggled in the South before and after the Civil War, mixed-race Marie Laveau inspired both terror and respect in 19th century New Orleans as the head of the secretive voodoo religion. And, in Renaissance Italy, Lucrezia Borgia was the female face of the notorious Borgia clan--the precursors to the modern Mafia family-as she left a trail of dead husbands and lovers in her wake.
Part biography, part cultural history, THE INFAMOUS WOMEN OF HISTORY ANTHOLOGY, Volume 1 is a collection of nonfiction novellas about the lives of these four renegade women who have been enshrined as "wicked" whether they were actually guilty or not. By examining their portrayals in film and other media, this book examines the continued mythmaking that still surrounds their reputations. Even today, each woman remains an enduring and unique archetype of female misbehavior--legendary for her misdeeds and so bad she is impossible to forget
THE INFAMOUS WOMEN OF HISTORY ANTHOLOGY, Volume 1 contains the following first four ebooks in The Infamous Women of History Series:
THE GUN MOLL: Bonnie Parker
THE VOODOO QUEEN: Marie Laveau
THE BLACK WIDOW: Lucrezia Borgia
Cover design and illustrations by Hampton Lamoureux (https: //www.ts95studios.com/)
