Princess Alix And Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna Of Russia Preparing For A Ball, 1888.

Princess Alix and Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia preparing for a ball, 1888.

…In any case I have something for you.

 Queen Nzinga of Ndongo (Angola)

Why she kicks ass:

Nzingha a Mbande (also known as Ana de Sousa Nzingha Mbande) was a 17th century queen (muchino a muhatu) of the Ndongo and Matamba Kingdoms of the Mbundu people in southwestern Africa.

She has been called the “greatest military strategist that ever confronted the armed forces of Portugal.” Her military campaigns kept the Portuguese in Africa at bay for more than four decades. 

Her objective was nothing less than the complete and total destruction of the African slave trade. 

She sent ambassadors throughout West and Central Africa with the intent of enlisting a huge coalition of African armies to eject the Portuguese. 

Queen Nzingha died fighting for her people in 1663 at the ripe old age of eighty-one. Africa has known no greater patriot.

Nzinga left an impression after making a fool of Portuguese Governor, Correa de Souza. 

chapter five: anne boleyn in nineteenth-century historical fiction

[citation: rosemary sweet, antiquaries: the discovery of the past in eighteenth-century britain (london: hambledon and london, 2004), 2]

[citation: elizabeth fay, romantic medievalism: history and the romantic literary ideal (basingstoke: palgrave macmillan, 2002), 2]

[citation: stephen bann, romanticism and the rise of history (new york: trayne publishers, 1995), 4; 5]

[citation: thea tomaini, the corpse as text: disinterment and antiquarian enquiry, 1700-1900 (woodbridge: the boydell press, 2017), 12]

[additional citation: peter mandler, “revisiting the olden time: popular tudorism in the time of victoria,” in tudorism: historical imagination and the appropriation of the sixteenth century, ed. tatiana c. string and marcus bull (oxford: oxford university press, 2011)]

History Meme: List of Favorite Women throughout History–Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France & England (c. 1122 – April 1, 1204)

Although Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen of France and later England, lived at a time when women as individuals had few significant rights, she was nevertheless the key political figure of the 12th century. At the age of fifteen she inherited one-quarter of modern-day France, but since women were thought unfit to rule, her land as well as her person were delegated to the custody of men. Her whole life thereafter became a struggle for the independence & political power that circumstances had denied her, although few of her contemporaries could realized this.

Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography by Marion Meade

Jane was also an expert needlewoman and well over a hundred years after her death, her embroidery work was still preserved in the royal collection. In 1647, during the reign of Charles I, the king passed a number of items connected to the Seymour family back to William Seymour, Marquis of Hertford, including 'a bed of needlework with a chair and cushions, said to be wrought by the queen, Lady Jane Seymour.'

Elizabeth Norton