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may 2022

‘Deadly Women’ in Fiction and Myth

12th April 20236th November 2025 / historicallywoman / Leave a comment

An outline of several 'deadly women' for May 2022's theme, femme fatales.

Femme Fatales: Mata Hari

29th May 202210th January 2023 / historicallywoman / Leave a comment

She is remembered as one of history’s greatest femme fatales, a cunning, double-crossing spy who was responsible for the deaths of up to 50,000 men. But was Mata Hari really that deadly, or was she instead just the scapegoat France needed at the time?

Femme Fatales – Lucrezia Borgia

15th May 202210th January 2023 / historicallywoman / 1 Comment

Murderous temptress or weak pawn? These are the two enduring images of Lucrezia Borgia, but are either at all true? Evidence suggests not.

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