Warrior Queens: Boadicea's Chariot (64 page)

21
Carras (I–21), p. 48; Shoksi (XVII–20), p. 113; Mann, Peggy,
Golda: The Life of Israel’s Prime Minister
(1972); Raju, R. Sundra,
Indira Gandhi: A Short Biography
(New Delhi 1980), pp. 5, 96.

22
Moraes (XVII–18), p. 193; Norman (XVII–19), p. 20.

23
Golda Meir Speaks Out
, edited by Marie Syrkin (1973), p. 73.

24
Mann (XVII–21), p. 231.

25
Meir, Golda,
My Life
(1976 pbk), pp. 321, 329.

26
Herzog, Major-General Chaim,
The War of Atonement October 1973
(Boston 1975), p. 282.

27
Herzog (XVII–26), p. 282.

28
Mann (XVII–21).

29
Fraser,
Cromwell
(VI–22), p. 607.

30
Mrs Thatcher’s acute anxiety not to be seen to encroach upon the Queen’s role has been confirmed to the author from a wide variety of sources.

31
International Herald Tribune
, 5 November 1987.

32
Observer
, 3 January 1988.

33
Sunday Telegraph
, 27 July 1986; Young and Sloman (I–18), pp. 95, 52; Jardine (V–4), p. 233.

34
Cosgrave, Patrick,
Thatcher: The First Term
(1985), pp. 53, 57, 226 note 3; cartoon by Griffin,
Daily Express
, 24 June 1982.

35
Cosgrave (XVII–34), p. 226 note 3; Arnold, Bruce,
Margaret Thatcher: A Study in Power
(1984), p. 144.

36
Campbell, Beatrix,
The Iron Ladies: Why do Women Vote Tory?
(1987), p. 243.

37
Barnett, Anthony,
Iron Britannia: Why Parliament Waged its Falklands War
(1982 pbk), p. 19.

38
Barnett (XVII–37), p. 19; Cosgrave (XVII–34), pp. 209–10.

39
Wapshott and Brock (I–17), p. 251; Lord Lewis quoted in Young and Sloman (I–18), p. 119; author’s conversation with John Keegan;
Sunday Telegraph
, 7 June 1987.

40
Daily Mail
, 6 October 1987.

41
Comus
, ll. 447–50,
The Poetical Works of John Milton
, edited by H. C. Beeching (new edn 1941), p. 60; Young and Sloman (I–18), p. 142.

42
Janet Watts quoting Julian Critchley,
Observer
, 24 April 1988; Cosgrave (XVII–34), p. 4.

43
Author’s conversation with a former member of Mrs Thatcher’s Cabinet.

44
Castle, Barbara,
The Castle Diaries 1974–76
(1980), pp. 518, 330;
The Times
, 27 January 1988;
Evening Standard Magazine
, 5 February 1988.

45
Cosgrave (XVII–34), p. 4;
Spare Rib
, August 1982.

46
Wapshott and Brock (I–17), illustration.

47
The Times
, 12 June 1982.

48
Harris, Kenneth, ‘Margaret Thatcher Talks to the
Observer
’ (April 1979);
Daily Express
, 26 July 1982.

49
New Statesman
, 28 May 1982;
Observer
, 23 May 1982;
Woman’s Own
magazine, 15 June 1985.

Chapter 18: Unbecoming in a Woman?

1
Gildas (X–3), p. 301.

2
Camden (XIII–45), p. 117; Spenser (II–5), I, p. 297.

3
Bonduca
(VII–11), Act I, scene I; Howard (XIV–13).

4
Thomson (XIV–17), pp. 375–6; Clark, J. E. D.,
English Society 1688–1832: Ideology, Social Structure and Political Practice during the Ancien Régime
(Cambridge 1985), pp. 179–80.

5
Hall, Mrs Matthew,
The Queens Before the Conquest
, 2 vols (1854), Vol. I, p. iv.

6
Doughty, Charles M.,
The Dawn in Britain
(1943), pp. 9, 597, 346; Air Commodore Dame Felicity (Hanbury) Peake in conversation with the author, 1986.

7
Cit. Phillips, ‘Woman Ruler’ (XIII–22), p. 220.

8
Huston, Nancy, ‘The Matrix of War: Mothers and Heroes’ in
The Female Body in Western Culture: Contemporary Perspectives
, edited by Susan Rubin Suleiman (1986), pp. 119–38.

9
Mossiker (XIV–9), p. 225; Fuller Ossoli, Margaret,
Women in the Nineteenth Century
, edited by Arthur B. Fuller (Boston 1874), p. 307.

10
Deutsch, Helene,
MD
,
The Psychology of Women: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation
, 2 vols (New York 1944), Vol. I, Ch. 8, pp. 279–324; see Foley, Helene B., ‘The conception of women in Athenian drama’ in Foley (III–5), p. 134.

11
Plutarch (III–20), p. 280.

12
Grant (III–11), p. 84.

13
Marshall, Catherine, Ogden, C. K. and Florence, Mary Sargent,
Militarism versus Feminism
, edited by Margaret Kamester and Jo Vellacott (1987 pbk reprint), pp. 40, 47, 96, 140.

14
Keegan, John,
The Mask of Command
(New York 1987), pp. 345–6, 351.

15
Segal, Lynne,
Is the Future Female? Troubled Thoughts on Contemporary Feminism
(1987 pbk), p. 198; Kelly, Petra,
Fighting for Hope
(1984), p. 104; Herodotus (III–3), p. 123; Boccaccio (I–19), p. 104.

16
Fuller Ossoli (XVIII–9), p. 307; Gloria Steinem quoted in Attallah, Naim,
Women
(1987), p. 543.

17
Dinnerstein, Dorothy,
The Rocking of the Cradle and the Ruling of the World
(1987 pbk), p. 214, 191, 28, 164, 177.

18
Prescott (XII–12), p. 240.

19
Février (VIII–2), p. 36.

20
Tacitus (III–1), p. 330.

21
Lebra-Chapman (XVI–7), p. 128; Strickland (X–15), p. 204.

22
Anglo-Saxon Poetry
(X–8), p. 326; Abbott, ‘Women’ (VIII–8), p. 262.

23
Gibbon (I–9), I, p. 302; Breisach (I–21), p. 130.

Index

Abbott, Nabia,
Ref 1

Abeokuta,
Ref 1

Achilles,
Ref 1

Actium, Battle of, 30
BC
,
Ref 1

Actresses’ Franchise League,
Ref 1

Adad-nirari III, Assyrian King,
Ref 1

Adams, Simon,
Ref 1

Adela of Blois (daughter of William the Conqueror),
Ref 1
,
Ref 2

Adeliza of Louvain, Queen of Henry I of England,
Ref 1

Aeneas,
Ref 1
;
see also
, Virgil

Aethelflaed (Ethelfleda), Lady of the Mercians,
Ref 2

Aethelred, Earlderman of Mercia,
Ref 1

Africa,
Ref 1
;
see also
Jinga, Queen

Agnes, Empress,
Ref 1

Agrippa, Marcus, Governor of Jerusalem,
Ref 1

Agricola,
Ref 1
,
Ref 2
,
Ref 3
,
Ref 4
,
Ref 5
;
see also
Tacitus

Ahenobarbus,
Ref 1

Aife (Irish woman warrior),
Ref 1

Ailill, King,
Ref 1

Aishah, wife of Muhammad the Prophet,
Ref 1

Albert, Prince Consort,
Ref 1
,
Ref 2

Alexander, Roman Emperor,
Ref 1

Alexander II, Pope
(formerly
Anselm of Lucca),
Ref 1
,
Ref 2
,
Ref 3
,
Ref 4

Alexander VI, Pope,
Ref 1
,
Ref 2

Alexander I, Tsar of Russia,
Ref 1
,
Ref 2
,
Ref 3

Alexander Helios (son of Cleopatra),
Ref 1

Alexandria, Donations of,
Ref 1

Alexios Comnenos, Byzantine Emperor,
Ref 1

Alfonso (the Battler), King of Aragon,
Ref 1

Alfonso V, King of Portugal,
Ref 1
,
Ref 2

Alfred, King of the West Saxons,
Ref 1

Allectus,
Ref 1

Allon, Yigel,
Ref 1

Al-Rahbani, Assi and Mansour,
Ref 1

Amazons: historical evidence for,
Ref 1
; reputation,
Ref 2
; in Spenser,
Ref 3
; ‘unnaturalness’,
Ref 4

Ameinias,
Ref 1

Amina, Queen of Katsina,
Ref 1

Ammianus Marcellinus,
Ref 1

Anarchy, the (twelfth-century England),
Ref 1
,
Ref 2
,
Ref 3

Anchises,
Ref 1

Andate (Andarta; goddess),
Ref 1
,
Ref 2

Andraste (Andaste; goddess),
Ref 1
,
Ref 2
,
Ref 3
,
Ref 4

Andrew, Grand Prince of Suzdal,
Ref 1

Andronicus i, Byzantine Emperor,
Ref 1

Anglesey (Mona),
Ref 1
,
Ref 2
,
Ref 3

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
,
Ref 1
,
Ref 2

Angola,
Ref 1
,
Ref 2
,
Ref 3
,
Ref 4
;
see also
Jinga, Queen

Annales Cambriae
,
Ref 1

Anne, Queen of Great Britain,
Ref 1
,
Ref 2

Anne Boleyn, Queen of Henry VIII,
Ref 1

Anselm of Lucca
see
Alexander II, Pope

Antioch: Synod of (268),
Ref 1

Antony, Mark,
Ref 1

Anu (goddess),
Ref 1

Apollo Sarpedonius, Seleucia (oracle),
Ref 1

Appendage Syndrome: in Warrior Queens,
Ref 1
,
Ref 2
,
Ref 3
,
Ref 4
,
Ref 5
; Maud and,
Ref 6
; Queen Elizabeth and,
Ref 7
,
Ref 8
,
Ref 9
,
Ref 10
,
Ref 11
; and female political leaders,
Ref 12
; and motherhood,
Ref 13

Aquino, Battle of, 1066,
Ref 1

Aquino, Mrs Corazon,
Ref 1

Arab–Israeli War, 1973,
Ref 1

Aragon,
Ref 1
,
Ref 2
;
see also
Ferdinand, King of Aragon

Arc, Joan of,
Ref 1
,
Ref 2
,
Ref 3

Ardabil, Emir of,
Ref 1

Arduino della Paluda, General,
Ref 1
,
Ref 2

Aristotle,
Ref 1

Armed Saint
see
Holy Figurehead

Armida,
Ref 1

Arnold, Bruce,
Ref 1

Arnulf, Bishop of Lisieux,
Ref 1

Arsinoe (sister of Cleopatra),
Ref 1
,
Ref 2

Artemisia, Queen Regent of Halicarnassus,
Ref 1
,
Ref 2