'Being a brief account of certain famous women, each of them richly endowed with some quality that drives men mad, omitting no pertinent and unbelievable fact and based on a stupendous amount of first-hand and second-hand research, some of it in books.' A humorous look at history's most famous women: Eve ('An Inquisitive Woman'); Delilah ('A Deceitful Woman'); Helen Of Troy ('A Too-Beautiful Woman'); Lady Godiva ('An Exhibitionist'); Elizabeth I ('A Headstrong Woman'); Lucrezia Borgia ('A Woman With Unpleasant Relatives'); Marie Antoinette ('A Frivolous Woman') and many more. Illustrated by Campbell Grant.