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Author: Elina Shatkin

Elina Shatkin is a journalist, radio producer and filmmaker who lives in Los Angeles. She was previously a senior editor at Los Angeles magazine, a restaurant critic for LA Weekly and an arts writer for the Los Angeles Times. Her work has appeared in California Sunday, The Believer, Bitch, Smashd, the Jewish Journal and other publications as well as on the radio at KCRW and KPCC. She is the founder of Guzzle & Nosh.

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Marianne Faithfull’s “Broken English” — an excoriation of all ideologies?

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Toto Koopman

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A gamine beauty with a fearless personality.

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Freya Stark

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She loved waking up, quite alone, in a strange town.

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Annie Smith Peck

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She scaled mountains wearing forbidden trousers.

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Isabella Lucy Bird

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She developed a pathological aversion to her native England.

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Mary Kingsley

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An astute proto-ethnologist attired in full Victorian garb.

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Louise Arner Boyd

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“Ice does eerie things,” she said.

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Gertrude Bell

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She was as complicated as the country she helped to found.

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Katia Krafft

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The two things she loved most: her husband and an exploding volcano.

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Jane Digby

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“A woman whose life’s poetry never sank to prose.”

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Osa Helen Johnson

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She married adventure, but made it her own.

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Hester Lucy Stanhope

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“I am the sun, the star, the earl, the lion, the light from heaven and the Queen.”

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Neta Snook

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The aviatrix who taught Amelia Earhart how to fly.

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A tattooed, cigar-chomping, cross-dressing, knife-collecting speed demon.

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