an important list

[holli]

The Doctor Who fanzine that’s theoretically in the works really needs to contain a list entitled ‘Ten Historically Awesome Women Ace McShane Should Have Flirted With.’

So far we have:

-the historical Mulan
-Ada Lovelace
-Julie D’Aubigny
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
-Malalai of Maiwand
-Mary Bowser

Tumblr has suggested Anne Bonney, Mata Hari, and Josephine Baker. Any other ideas? I wish my knowledge of non-Western history was better.

Comments

[derryderrydown]

Selina Cooper
Gertrude Bell
Rani Rashmoni
Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi

[coyotegestalt]

Not non-Western, but has potential to be fun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwenllian_ferch_Gruffydd

(Ran across her while looking for something else the other day, as so often happens with Wikipedia)

[pandarus]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatshepsuti. <---- excellent pharoah lady

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mochizuki_Chiyome. <---- kickass ninja boss

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Shih. <---- ultimate BAMF pirate queen /empress

[skygiants]

Empress Wu! Sei Shonagon!

[melannen]

...this requires there being historical women that Ace McShane *shouldn't* have flirted with, and I can't think of any!