An inimitable collection of outrageous and unforgettable twentieth-century lives. From the self-styled 'Queen of Soho' who was given to removing her clothes in public and who sued an airline, claiming to have been bitten on the bottom by a flea, to the intrepid traveller who shot a crocodile, founded a girls' boarding school and arrived at her eightieth birthday party in a sidecar, dressed as Boadicea, this is a celebration of the women who refused to fulfil society's expectations.