1.1: Sei Shonagon by Uemura Shoen (, 1875-1949). Courtesy of Kyoto Journal.
2.1: Margaret Catchpole. Courtesy of Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service.
2.2: Margaret attempting her escape. Courtesy of Suffolk Record Office.
2.3: Notice of Margaret Catchpole’s escape from prison, c.1790, photographed for the Government Printing Office. Courtesy of Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales.
3.1: Perilous situation of whalemen, 1861. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
4.1: Portrait of Harriet Jacobs courtesy of Jean Fagan Yellin.
4.2: $100 reward poster published in American Beacon, Norfolk Virginia, July 4, 1835.
5.1: Isabella Beeton (1836-65).
5.2: Cover image of Beeton’s Book of Household Management: Comprising information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, Cook, Kitchen-Maid, Butler, Footman, Coachman, Valet, Upper and Under House-Maids, Maid-of-all-Work, Laundry-Maid, Nurse and Nurse-Maid, Monthly Wet and Sick Nurses, etc. etc. Also Sanitary, Media, & Legal Memoranda: with a History of the Origin, Properties, and Uses of all Things Connected with Home Life and Comfort, published in 1861.
6.1: Mary Kingsley © Royal Geographical Society. Courtesy of RGS Picture Library.
7.1: Nellie Bly © H.J. Myers, 1890. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
8.1: Daisy Ashford. Courtesy of Mary Evans Picture Library.
9.1: Ada Blackjack. Courtesy of Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College.
9.2: Ada Blackjack. Courtesy of Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College.
10.1: Dang Thuy Tram. Courtesy of Kim Tram Dang.
11.1: Doris Pilkington Garimara. Courtesy of University of Queensland Press.