Warrior Queens: Boadicea's Chariot (71 page)

Verrio, Antonio,
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Verulamium (St Albans),
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Viaggio (Venetian minister),
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Victor, Pope,
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Victoria, Queen: Boadicea as,
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; dismisses failure,
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; Agnes Strickland dedicates book to,
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; John Knox and,
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n; abhors Women’s Rights,
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; and Shame Syndrome,
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; biography of Louise dedicated to,
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; accession,
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; attitude to war,
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; and Rani of Jhansi,
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; and Begum of Bhopal,
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; and Begum of Oudh,
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; and Indian Mutiny,
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; death,
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; letter from Empress Tz’u-Hsi,
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; imperialism,
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Victorinus, Gallic Emperor,
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Vietnam,
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Vigée Le Brun, Madame,
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Virgil:
Aeneid
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Visconti-Sforza, Bianca,
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Vitruvia (or Victoria),
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Vives, Joannes Ludovicus,
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Vivian, Katherine,
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Voada (daughter of Boadicea),
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Voadicia (daughter of Boadicea),
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Voltaire, François Arouet de: and Catherine the Great,
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Semiramis
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Voracity Syndrome (sexual): in Warrior Queens,
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; in Medb,
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; in Cleopatra,
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; and Cartimandua,
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; and Matilda,
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; and Tamara,
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; and Caterina Sforza,
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; and Rani of Jhansi,
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Voss, Sophie Marie, Countess von,
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Walpole, Horace,
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Warner, Marina,
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Warrior Queens: defined,
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; supposed sexual licence,
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; characteristics and syndromes,
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; as war goddesses,
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; and matriarchal society,
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; voices,
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; and modern political women leaders,
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; feminist principles and unbecoming conduct,
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; and exercise of authority,
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; uniforms,
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; and motherhood,
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; and transcendent patriotism,
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Watts, Isaac,
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Welf V of Bavaria (Countess Matilda’s second husband),
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Wheeler, Sir Mortimer,
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White Ship,
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Wilcox, Toyah,
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William I (the Conqueror), King of England,
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William II (Rufus), King of England,
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William III (of Orange), King of England, Scotland and Ireland,
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William, King of Prussia,
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William, Prince (son of Henry I of England),
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William Clito,
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William of Malmesbury,
see
Malmesbury, William of

Wilson, Robert,
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Winchilsea, Daniel Finch, 6th Earl of,
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Woman’s Own
(magazine),
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Worms, Council of, 1076,
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Xerxes, Persian King,
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Ximenes, Cardinal (Francisco de Cisneros),
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Xiphilinus of Trapezus,
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Yarfe (Moorish champion),
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Young, Hugo and Sloman, Anne:
The Thatcher Phenomenon
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Young, Janet, Baroness,
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Zabdas, Palmyran General,
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Zabibi, Queen,
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Zagal, El,
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Zainab (sister of Zebbâ),
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Zamora,
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Zebbâ (al-Zabbà; az-Zabbà; legendary figure),
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Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra: as Warrior Queen,
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; voice,
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; captivity,
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; compared to Boadicea,
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; life and background,
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; described,
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; ‘chastity’,
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; reign,
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; conquests,
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; declares independence from Rome,
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; consults oracles,
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; war with Aurelian,
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; seeks Persian help,
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; retirement in Rome,
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, and legend,
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Zenobius, Bishop of Florence,
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Zosimus,
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Illustrations

The bronze statue of Boadicea and her daughters, in a scythe-wheeled chariot, sculpted by Thomas Thornycroft between 1856 and 1885, and finally erected by the London County Council in 1902. The lines of William Cowper are inscribed upon the plinth:

Regions Caesar never knew

Thy Posterity shall sway.

A
crater
of 460
BC
showing Sthenelus, a companion of Heracles, in his war against the Amazon women; encounters with Amazons were often used in Greek art to symbolize the Greeks’ victories over their male enemies.

Ptolemaic votive plaque believed to depict Cleopatra as a goddess.

The voluptuous European conception of Cleopatra; an engraving by J. Chapman of 1804.

Silver coin of Cleopatra (with Antony on the obverse) issued in Syria
c
. 34
BC.

Judith beheads Holofernes in a nineteenth-century engraving by Schnorr von Carolsfeld.