Scandalous Women

Scandalous Women

(The Lives and Loves of History’s Most Notorious Women)

by Elizabeth Kerri Mahon

Scandalous Women is a delightful book containing the biographies of some of the most fascinating women of history. Keeping true to the title and subtitle, the stories within this book’s pages kept me entertained for hours.

As soon as I flipped open the book and read the table of contents, I was immediately intrigued. The book is divided into seven categories:

Warrior Queens

Wayward Wives

Scintillating Seductresses

Crusading Ladies

Wild Women of the West

Amorous Artists

Amazing Adventuresses

The chapter titles alone beckoned me to read further. And I was not disappointed. Within each of these chapters, the bios of 35 different women were beautifully written - full of detail, not too long, and told in a quippy voice that kept me entertained from start to finish. Her use of humour is what made these bios stand out from the realm of other similar books on the market. Some women, like Cleopatra and Eleanor of Aquitaine, I was well acquainted with. But there were numerous others, lesser known female heroines in the annals of history, whose lives were revealed to me for the very first time like Lady Caroline Lamb, Rose Greenhow, and Frida Kahlo.

Each biography gave a full and detailed accounting of their lives without being tedious or boring to read. In fact, the opposite is true. The more I read, the more I wanted to learn about the next woman, and the next woman, and the woman after that. It is evident that Elizabeth Kerri Mahon knows her topic well and spent a great deal of time researching each life. In this way, she was able to bring lesser known details about their lives to the forefront.

For those of you who are avid bloggers and blog followers, you might be already well familiar with Elizabeth’s work. She is the owner of the blog: http://scandalouswomen.blogspot.com/. Her blog has delighted me for years now and I’m an avid reader, as I know she is of my blog too.

This book is one I highly recommend. Present it as a gift to a fascinating woman in your life for Mother’s Day, an upcoming birthday, or Christmas.