Girls Rule

Danielle Brown MBE is a double Paralympic gold medallist and five-time World Champion in archery. She was World Number 1 for her entire career and made history when she became the first disabled person to represent England and win gold as an able-bodied athlete at the Commonwealth Games. Danielle now works as a professional speaker and trainer, specialising in self-development and success skills. She has worked in the education sector for over a decade, inspiring over 30,000 students through her programmes and has co-authored a GCSE Study Skills guide. She is the co-author of the book Be Your Best Self (shortlisted for The Telegraph Children’s Sports Book of the Year 2020) and the author of Run Like A Girl (winner of the children’s category of The Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2022. Danielle is based in Shropshire, West Midlands. www.daniellebrown.co.ukFollow on Instagram: @daniellebrownmbe Follow on Twitter: @danibrownmbe

As well as being a source of information for each particular woman, the book as a whole shines a light proudly on the feminist movement, on the shifts within the whole landscape of women in society over many, many years across the entire world. Girls Rule is a brilliant , captivating and awe-inspiring collection of extraordinary role models.

• Introduction 6Frida Kahlo 8 Hypatia 10 Christine De Pizan 12Amelia Earhart 14Beyonce 16Nellie Bly 18Rosa Parks 20Libby Kosmala 22Boudicca 24Mary Anning 26 Marie Curie 28 Tuaiwa ‘Eva’ Rickard 30 Ching Shih 32Vigdis Finnbogadottir 34George Eliot 36 Malala Yousafzai 38 Ruth Bader Ginsburg 40 Artemisia I of Caria 42 Jane Goodall 44Alicia Alonso 46 Wangari Maathai 48 Helen Keller 50 Susana Rodriguez Gacio 52 Lise Meitner 54 Madam C. J. Walker 56 Florence Nightingale 58 Greta Thunberg 60 Zaha Hadid 62Mary Patten 64Emma Watson 66Andree De Jongh 68 Jane Fonda 70 Cleopatra 72 Jacinda Ardern 74Samantha Cristoforetti 76 Mary Wollstonecraft 78 Dorothy Arzner 80 Mary Kom 82 Amal Clooney 84 Rosalind Franklin 86 Madeline Stuart 88Sophia Duleep Singh 90 Anna Politkovskaya 92 Shelley-Ann Fraser-Pryce 94 Zheng Zhenxiang 96 Maya Angelou 98 Aud The Deep-Minded 100 Sonita Alizadeh 102 Ada Lovelace 104 Maria Montessori 106 About the Author 108 Index 110