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Footnotes
5. Khayzuran – ?–AD 789
1. Hello there! If you don’t know what this means, please refer to the Old People Glossary, which I have included at the back of this volume for your convenience.
7. Hildegard von Bingen – 1098–1179
2. Parents would often give away their girls in order to avoid paying their dowries if and when they got married. If you had loads of girls, paying a dowry for each one would be incredibly expensive, so it was off to the convent with them instead. Of course parents could also save money by spending less in posh coffee shops, couldn’t they? Some people.
8. Margery Kempe – c. 1373–1438
3. Lol.
9. Artemisia I of Caria – 5th century BC
4. If you must insist on learning things, Salamis is actually the name of a Greek island, and the battle took place in the straits between Salamis and the Greek mainland. It was the first time that humans discovered the joys of ramming into each other with ships on a mass scale, and so is remembered as the first recorded giant naval battle in history.
11. Ælfthryth – c. AD 945–c. 1000
5. Pointy hats were more of a Victorian interpretation of medieval fashion than actual medieval fashion, but it’s a good image, so we’ll let it stand.
6. I am told by someone who knows better that the idea of an affair with a court jester is an anachronistic one. I’m pretty sure he’s just jealous though, so again, we’ll let it stand.
12. Zenobia – c. AD 240–274
7. For those not familiar with Squarespace, it’s what ancient Romans used to build beautiful, custom websites.
17. Empress Wu – AD 624–705
8. Hello, gentlemen readers! I’m so glad you could join us. Just wanted to let you know it’s best not to test this theory, ever, with anyone. This is just an innocent joke, and not meant to be taken as a guide of any shape or form. Thank you, and enjoy!
9. Hi again, gents! Just another friendly piece of advice while I have you: This is ALSO not a great argument to make in the modern world, at any time, to anyone, ever! Don’t try it! Trust me! OK carry on.
20. Hypatia – c. AD 355–415
10. Hello Amazon, in exchange for this joke can I please have an unlimited supply of Kindle chargers, I keep losing mine, thx.
29. Annie Jump Cannon – 1863–1941
11. JUST A QUICK FOOTNOTE TO SAY THAT HARVARD DIDN’T GRANT DEGREES TO FEMALE STUDENTS UNTIL THE 1960s, AND DID NOT REACH A PARITY OF MALE AND FEMALE STUDENTS UNTIL
TWO THOUSAND AND FUCKING SEVEN, JESUS CHRIST.
12. I didn’t bother looking up how he actually died, so who’s to say it wasn’t by tripping over a box of buttons?
13. Presumably.
30. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin – 1900–1979
14. This is not a true statement, but rather a joke carried on from the previous chapter, which you would have recognised if you were reading things in order like an adult.
40. Nellie Bly – 1864–1922
15. What an amazing coincidence that his name was Pulitzer and he was a journalist!
42. Jovita Idár – 1885–1946
16. It hasn’t.
17. They’re not.
44. Beatrice Potter Webb – 1858–1943
18. Mum and boyfriend, please don’t read anything into this.
49. Mary Wollstonecraft – 1759–1797
19. Greetings, future Earthlings. If this sentence left you wondering what a Pokéstop is, please understand that for a very short time in the summer of 2016, there was a game called Pokémon Go that many people cared about very much. In this game, a Pokéstop was a location where you could gather items for your quest to capture creatures called Pokémon, in an augmented reality superimposed on the world. After a few months, however, human beings tired of this game, as they tire of all things, and abandoned their Pokémon in the empty void of cyberspace where all faddish apps go to die. In the now cold and desolate wasteland of the Pokémon universe, millions of lost creatures languish and expire, deserted by their once devoted masters. Disused Pokéstops now mark this dead universe like so many tombstones, and Mary Wollstonecraft’s former school is one of them. She was pretty goth though so I feel like she’d be into it.
20. OK technically she wasn’t goth in the sense of gothic literature, which can be seen as a reaction to exactly the kind of ~reason~ that old Mary was famous for. But she was definitely emo.
51. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper – 1825–1911
21. By the way, Frances believed strongly in the prohibition of alcohol, and was a prominent member of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. So please set aside your cold, refreshing brewski for the remainder of this chapter, should you so happen to be enjoying one at this moment, as I am.
56. Pancho Barnes – 1901–1975
22. We need to bring back the word ‘razz’. Can everyone make an effort to drop this word into conversations at least once a week please? Thank you.
58. Lilian Bland – 1878–1971
23. Unless this is actually something you know how to do. If so, amazing! Well done. Be my friend.
78. Nell Gwynn – 1650–1687
24. Absolutely unrelated side note: here are some actual names that Puritans gave their children, as collected by Nell Gwynn’s biographer and descendant Charles Beauclerk: Abstinence, Forsaken, Tribulation, Ashes, Lamentation, Fear-not, Weep-not, Kill-sin and Fly-fornication. Imagine it! ‘Fly-fornication, if you’ve finished your prayers you must help Tribulation with his!’ These are the people that had such a hard time with witches in the US. Maybe they should have focused their attentions on their incredibly shit names instead. OK side note over.
88. Noor Inayat Khan – 1914–1944
25. The correct answer is milk first when AND ONLY WHEN you’re brewing the tea in a pot, but second when you’re making it with a teabag directly in the cup.
93. Policarpa Salavarrieta – 1795–1817
26. Fun fact from my pal Laura: When the Colombian government replaced all the money with new designs (of both men and women celebs, some goodies and some baddies) the new bills didn’t fit in the cash machines and they had to redo them all, lol.
95. Alexandra Kollontai – 1872–1952
27. He did. It was with another prominent Bolshevik woman, Inessa Armand, and the Bolsheviks were so embarrassed by the whole thing that when Lenin died they tried their darndest to erase her from history. Yet here we are, having a dalliance with the sexy past in a footnote.
97. Rosa Luxemburg – 1871–1919
28. According to my clever friend Trevor, she would wear giant hats so that people could see where she was.
29. I am told by historians that historians actually love to do this, even though it’s naughty. Or perhaps because it’s naughty.
98. Constance Markievicz – 1868–1927
30. Good news, ladies! This is not a figment of my wild imagination but a real pen you can buy.
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