Unbecoming a Lady

Quick, snarky and informative mini bios of assorted 19th and early 20th century unconventional women. Readers might already be somewhat familiar with several of the subjects, such as crusading Black journalist Ida B. Wells or evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. But the more interesting chapters chronicle the lives of truly obscure women, including the sisters who garnered a lot of press (most of it bad) for being the worst vaudeville act in the world, and the Mormon woman who defeated her own polygamous husband to become Utah's first female state senator. Can be read cover to cover in less than an hour; would make a good hostess gift for a feminist friend.