FableCroft Publishing is pleased to announce that Cranky Ladies of History will be launched in Canberra on March the 8th, 2015.
The successful Pozible crowd-funding campaign for Cranky Ladies began on March 1 and ran until March 31, coinciding with Women’s History Month.
The anthology examines or celebrates real cranky* ladies from history, with stories from a diverse range of backgrounds, nationalities, and time periods. The anthology is around 125,000 words in total, with original cover art by Kathleen Jennings.
*The definition of “cranky” is rather broad, and stems somewhat more from a tendency to buck societal standards of the era than a true inherent crankiness.
Table of Contents:
| Author | Provisional Title | Cranky Lady | A little detail… |
| Joyce Chng | “Charmed Life” | Leizu | Chinese empress who discovered silk |
| Amanda Pillar | “Neter Nefer” | Hatshepsut | Egyptian ruler |
| Barbara Robson | “Theodora” | Theodora, wife of the Byzantine Emperor, Justinian the first | Wife of the Byzantine Emperor, Justinian the first |
| Lisa Hannett | “Hallgerðr Höskuldsdóttir / For So Great a Misdeed” | Icelandic woman | |
| Garth Nix | “The Company of Women” | Lady Godiva | Anglo-Saxon noblewoman |
| Juliet Marillier | “Hallowed Ground” | Hildegard of Bingen | German writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath |
| LM Myles | “Little Battles” | Eleanor of Aquitaine | French queen & mother of dynasty |
| Foz Meadows | “Bright Moon” | Khutulun | Central Asian warrior |
| Laura Lam | “The lioness and her prey” | Jeanne de Clisson | French pirate |
| Liz Barr | “Queenside” | Mary Tudor (Mary I of England) | Queen of England |
| Deborah Biancotti | “Look How Cold My Hands Are” | Countess Bathory | countess from the renowned Báthory family of nobility in the Kingdom of Hungary. She has been labelled the most prolific female serial killer in history |
| Dirk Flinthart | “The gift of freedom” | Grace O’Malley | Queen of Umaill, chieftain of the Ó Máille clan sometimes known as “The Sea Queen of Connacht” |
| Faith Mudge | “Glorious” | Elizabeth I | Queen of England |
| Havva Murat | “The Pasha, the girl and the dagger: The story of Nora of Kelmendi” | Nora of Kelmendi | Albanian warrior |
| Kirstyn McDermott | “Mary Mary” | Mary Wollstonecroft | English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women’s rights. |
| Thoraiya Dyer | “Vintana” | Queen Ranavalona I of Madagascar, also known as Ranavalona the Cruel | Queen of Madagascar |
| Stephanie Lai | “The dragon, the terror, the sea” | Cheng Shih | Chinese pirate |
| Jane Yolen | SACAGAWEA | SACAGAWEA | Lemhi Shoshone woman, who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition, acting as an interpreter and guide, in their exploration of the Western United States |
| Kaaron Warren | “Another week in the future” | Miss CH Spence | Scottish-born Australian author, teacher, journalist, politician and leading suffragist. |
| Sylvia Kelso | “Due care and attention” | Lilian Cooper | British-born Australian doctor |
| Sandra McDonald | “Cora Crane and The Trouble with Me” | Cora Crane | American businesswoman, nightclub and bordello owner, writer and journalist. |
| Nisi Shawl | “A Beautiful Stream” | Colette | French novelist and performer |
| Liz Argall | “Oodgeroo is Not Yet Your Name” | Oodgeroo Noonuccal | Australian poet, political activist, artist and educator. |
See FableCroft Publishing for more details.