Line #86 Main/LadyOfAdventure


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12	[[caption-width-right:236:[-[[Literature/{{Dracula}} Mina Murray]] and [[Literature/KingSolomonsMines Allan Quatermain]] are [[ChewBubblegum here to drink tea and kick ass]] and ''[[Film/TheyLive they're all out of tea.]]-]'']]
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14	->''"Miss Vesper Holly has the digestive talents of a goat and the mind of a chess master. She is familiar with half a dozen languages and can swear fluently in all of them. She understands the use of a slide rule but prefers doing calculations in her head. She does not hesitate to risk life and limb — mine as well as her own. No doubt she has other qualities yet undiscovered. I hope not."''
15	-->-- The very first lines of '''''The Illyrian Adventure''''' by Creator/LloydAlexander
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17	She is a [[{{Ojou}} high-class]] [[BlueBlood lady]] (though usually not [[RoyalBlood a member of royalty]]), self-sufficient, but not willing to get tied down in marriage (though she may find love in her travels, she will always [[InHarmsWay choose adventure]] over love — not even [[DefrostingIceQueen defrosting]] will help). Sometimes, her BigFancyHouse will contain mementos of past adventures. At home, she may be a ProperLady but as a rule, crosses over into SpiritedYoungLady; quite frankly, her activities would frighten her more domestic counterparts.
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19	For you see, she doesn't just find excitement — she specifically seeks it out. She thinks nothing of beating up {{pirates}} off the coast of [[UsefulNotes/UnitedArabEmirates the Trucial States]] or outwitting remnant tribes of {{Mayincatec}} [[ImAHumanitarian humanitarians]].
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21	Most often, she will have no powers of her own to speak of (though she may have some small degree of [[ActionGirl physical prowess]]) but will surround herself with a [[TrueCompanions band of friends]] that will help her on her travails. She will almost certainly live to become a CoolOldLady.
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23	Usually filled to the brim with BritishStuffiness and almost always wears GorgeousPeriodDress (while still fitting for the high seas and hot sun). Often found in TheEdwardianEra.
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25	Compare and contrast LadyOfBlackMagic and LadyOfWar. The DistaffCounterpart and likely wife of the GentlemanAdventurer. Often wears a ladylike AdventurerOutfit.
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28	!!Examples:
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31	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
32	* The ''Manga/DarkGathering'' character Eiko is a modern example. Although she's a brilliant hacker/day trader, those occupations are largely to fund her ''real'' passion: studying murderous ghosts. Apparently the adrenaline rush of almost dying gets her [[{{Fetish}} hot]].
33	* ''Anime/SecretOfCeruleanSand'': After hearing the news that her brother, George, was allegedly [[spoiler: [[ShotAtDawn shot for treason]]]] while on a desert expedition, [[{{Ojou}} Jane Buxton]] decides to learn the truth of what happened for herself. So she sets off on a grand adventure across the globe though her butler Chambellin insists on going with her. [[PluckyGirl She's only 14]], after all.
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37	* Charlotte "Charley" Pollard in the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' audios, who (originating in the actual Edwardian era) frequently describes herself as "Edwardian adventuress". She has many amazing adventures with the Doctor, a Time Lord who can travel ''anywhere'' in space and time.
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41	* The writers tend to forget this, but Comicbook/CaptainBritain and his sister Psylocke are members of a [[Fiction500 fabulously wealthy family]]. While Captain Britain sometimes resents his calling, Psylocke fits this to a 'T', even after her {{Stripperiffic}} ninja makeover.
42	* Lady Johanna Constantine of ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' and ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989''. She was an 18th and 19th century aristocrat and adventurer, and an ancestor of John Constantine. She was the daughter of Lord and Lady Constantine, orphaned at a young age when her parents were hanged for treason. Stripped of her title, she was forced to live in poverty. Her luck turned in 1785 when King George III asked her to retrieve Pandora's Box. If she succeeded, her title would be reinstated, and she would be given an estate.
43	* Mina Murray from ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'': a British adventurer turned immortal, a former music teacher and agent for the British Secret Service.
44	* ''ComicBook/{{Nightwing}}'' foe Lady Vic is a villainous version of this trope. Lady Elaine Marsh-Morton is descended from a long line of British soldiers and mercenaries, and a genuine English aristocrat. The money she earns from her secret career an assassin, bounty hunter, and mercenary helps prevent foreclosure on her impoverished family estate. She uses the vast collection of weaponry from the world accumulated by her ancestors as her personal arsenal.
45	* Emma Bishop of ''ComicBook/{{Ruse}}'' is described as "A fetching beauty whose spirit craves adventure." Her day job is as the assistant to a danger-prone InsufferableGenius Victorian detective ([[Franchise/SherlockHolmes sound familiar?]]), compensating for his lack of social and linguistics skills. [[spoiler: Not mentioned: mysterious time-stopping powers, which she's not supposed to reveal under any circumstances...]]
46	* Jane Porter of ''Franchise/{{Tarzan}}'' gets this characterization in her Creator/DynamiteComics appearances, most notably in the ''Swords of Sorrow'' crossover.
47	* Dejah Thoris in ''ComicBook/WarlordOfMars'' is also like this, especially in her prequel series where she takes all kinds of crazy adventures that rival those of her husband John Carter like visiting other worlds, fighting vampires, finding lost civilizations and fending off alien invasions. What makes it impressive is that she is a BadassNormal instead of a HeavyWorlder like Carter.
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51	* Kit Bennett, [=PhD=]., ''alias'' [[spoiler:Kathy Watson]] in ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfTime'': a BadassBookworm from a respectable family, born in VictorianLondon. By chance (we think), she's also a [[Series/DoctorWho Time Lady]]. She is a physicist, she is a century old by UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, and she's been all over Time and Space with the Doctor. (Yes, she's a River Song {{Expy}}.)
52	* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, marginal canonical character Miss Alice Band is this. Daughter of an archbishop and now a senior tutor at the Assassins' Guild School, the elegant and ladylike Alice combines taking on ''interesting'' Guild contracts, relaxes with a little recreational [[Franchise/TombRaider Stealth Archaeology]], and then passes her skills and knowledge to the student Assassins she teaches.
53	* ''Fanfic/VoyagesOfTheWildSeaHorse'':
54	** Kodachi Kuno is an aristocratic heiress who has taken to the life of a pirate like a duck to water, considering sailing the [[DeathWorld Grand Line]] and regularly battling {{Sea Monster}}s, marines and rival pirates to be the greatest fun in her life.
55	** Penelope [=laFloo=] is the HappilyAdopted daughter of a wealthy merchant from the East Blue nation of Frauce. She's also an AdventurerArchaeologist who was willing to explore the uncharted DeathWorld that is the Grand Line, both for the sake of finding lost ruins and [[GeneHunting to seek out her lost people]].
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59	* A senior witch in ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'' flies past Kiki to greet her while Kiki flies towards a new city. You can tell by the senior witch's prim and proper voice as well as expensive jewelry that she comes from a luxurious life style. She also talks about returning home from various adventures regarding fortune telling.
60	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'': Jane Porter, a well-off English gentlewoman is happy to explore the depths of the African jungle with her scientist father. In fact, she enjoys the jungle so much she decides to stay there permanently, lives in a treehouse, and even learns tree-surfing and vine-swinging from her husband. The spin-off TV series ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTarzan'' has her involved in all manner of adventures involving such things as rogue elephants, leopard men, and escaped fugitives. One episode even involves some of her old friends from the aristocracy coming for a visit, and whilst initially Jane attempts to show she can still be a proper uppercrust gentlewoman, she ultimately admits that such airs are pointless in the jungle and could get them all killed.
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64	* In ''{{Film/Cracks}}'', Miss G. pretends to be this to impress her students.
65	%%* Adèle Blanc-Sec from ''Film/TheExtraordinaryAdventuresOfAdeleBlancSec'', as well as the comics upon which the film is based.
66	* Lara Croft in the ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaider'' films, crossed with a lot of ActionGirl. She even has the BigFancyHouse!
67	%%* Evelyn "Evie" Carnahan-O'Connell from ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy'' becomes one of these.
68	* In ''Film/OutOfAfrica'', Karen goes to Africa specifically to be this. By the time she leads a caravan of cattle across the desert to an Allied army, she's definitely succeeded.
69	%%* Elizabeth Swann in ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean''.
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73	!!!'''In General:'''
74	* OlderThanPrint: The [[DamselErrant Damsels Errant]] found in knightly romances (the lovely mysterious young ladies who guide and advise the knight on his adventures) are an early form of this trope.
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76	!!!'''By Work:'''
77	%%* Grace Cahill in ''Literature/The39Clues''
78	%%* Lady Sharrow of ''Literature/AgainstADarkBackground'' is a [[{{Pun}} dark]] take on this.
79	* Kate De Vries from the ''Literature/{{Airborn}}'' trilogy fits this reasonably well, although she's probably quite a bit younger than most of the other examples. In the second and third books in particular she's right on board with going on dangerous adventures.
80	%%* Literature/AmeliaPeabody
81	* Evadne Stephens from ''Literature/TheExtraordinaires'' is a version of this in her late teens. She is from an extremely wealthy family, but she has run away from home because of the restrictions placed upon her ambitions. She is highly intelligent, [[GadgeteerGenius hugely inventive]] and she is also a fine juggler with an arresting stage presence.
82	%%* Jane in Creator/EdwardEager's ''Half Magic'' and ''Magic by the Lake'', when she grows up.
83	%%* Vesper Holly in Creator/LloydAlexander's ''Adventure'' books, starting with ''Literature/TheIllyrianAdventure''.
84	* In Geoph Essex's ''Jackrabbit Messiah'', old [[CoolOldLady Maggie Calloway]] is obviously a Lady Adventurer from an earlier time, with her AdventurerOutfit and unsubtle similarity to classic fiery Creator/KatharineHepburn characters.
85	* The eponymous Lady Trent from ''Literature/AMemoirByLadyTrent'' series, a naturalist who travels the world to study dragons and become famous in her field, [[StayInTheKitchen societal expectations]], CultureClash, deadly environments, and international politics be damned.
86	* Europe from the ''Literature/MonsterBloodTattoo'' series combines this trope, LadyOfWar, and LadyOfBlackMagic to create a refined, dignified monster hunter with [[ActionFashionista cool clothes]] and [[ShockAndAwe an electric presence]].
87	* ''Literature/TheParasolProtectorate'': Alexia Tarabotti, later Lady [[spoiler:Maccon]], is an upper-class [[TheSoulless preternatural]] with a fondness for tea and beating up her enemies with her ParasolOfPain who frequently finds herself dealing with unruly humans and supernaturals of all sorts. This is to the point that [[spoiler:she's appointed muhjah, the preternatural member of the Shadow Council of Britain]].
88	* ''Literature/PhryneFisher'': The Honourable Phryne Fisher from ''Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries''. Upper-class (and titled) lady in 1920's Australia with a liberal attitude towards love and many globe-trotting adventures under her belt. Competent pilot and motorcycle rider. Solves mysteries. Most other members of The Adventuress' Club also qualify.
89	* Isabel in ''Literature/ThePortraitOfALady'' wishes she could be one. She enjoys travelling very much, travels from her home America to England, then travels in Europe, visits Paris and chooses to settle in Italy.
90	* ''Literature/SallyLockhart'' in the Creator/PhilipPullman novels involving her. She is a young woman who develops a passion for solving mysteries after her father's death. "Uncommonly pretty" and works as a financial consultant.
91	%%* Marguerite St Just, Lady Blakeney, from ''Literature/TheScarletPimpernel''.
92	* ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'': Irene Adler is a globetrotter known for seducing high-ranking political targets for pay and pleasure.
93	* ''Literature/SkiesUnbroken'' has Verica Chantil, the [[GentlemanAndAScholar scholarly]] [[ForScience biologist]] who has just a bit of ShipTease with Kor. Technically a passenger, but contributes as much as she can.
94	* Lady Sylvia in ''Literature/SorceryAndCecelia'' has the most amazing widowhood in all Regency England, involving international travel, politics, and spying.
95	* Olive Nolan in ''Literature/{{Tranquilium}}''. She is well-acquainted with many interesting people including [[ColonelBadass Chri Williams]], is very good with handguns, and has had run-ins with pirates even before the beginning of the novel.
96	* ''Literature/WagonsWest'': Teddy Montague is very much this, as we see her excel in dealing with the natives in Brazil and the Philippines.
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100	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
101	** Romana ([[TheNthDoctor both of her]]), an actual Time Lady who travelled with the Fourth Doctor.
102	** Lady Christina de Souza in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E15PlanetOfTheDead "Planet of the Dead"]] combines this with ClassyCatBurglar, as she steals for the risk rather than the reward. The Doctor's parting gift to her is a ''flying double-decker bus'' so that probably won't be a problem anymore.
103	** River Song can be this ''or'' the ClassyCatBurglar, depending at which point on her personal timeline the Doctor catches her.
104	--->"Careful? Tried that once. Ever so dull."
105	** Sarah-Jane Smith to a small extent in ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures''. She's not blue-blooded, but she is a grown-up former companion with an alien supercomputer in her attic, who now mentors several young adventurers.
106	--->"Maria, there are two types of people in the world. Those who panic, and then there's us. Got it?"
107	* What Arya ends up being during the series finale when she travels outside of Westeros, in ''Series/GameOfThrones''.
108	* The Honourable Phryne Fisher from ''Series/MissFishersMurderMysteries''. Upper-class (and titled) lady in 1920's Australia with a liberal attitude towards love and many globe-trotting adventures under her belt. Competent pilot and motorcycle rider. Solves mysteries.
109	* Miss Ruby Ogden from ''Series/MurdochMysteries'' (set in late Victorian/early Edwardian Canada). She comes from an upper-middle-class family (her father and her ''sister'' are medical doctors). She pursues travelling, becomes a journalist and aspires to be a writer. We hear for example that she's in South America.
110	* ''Series/{{QI}}'': Ronni Ancona [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPyuuUelnr4 did a lengthy impression]] of one of these (and read an actual journal entry from one) in the "Dictionary" episode.
111	%%* Dr. Helen Magnus in ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}''.
112	* Marguerite Krux in ''Series/SirArthurConanDoylesTheLostWorld''. Although she has a shadier past than is usual for this trope, she still manages to pull off the typical attitudes and mannerisms.
113	%%* The female H.G. Wells in ''Series/{{Warehouse 13}}''.
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117	* Lady Alexandra Faversham, mother of ''[[Radio/ThePennyDreadfulsPresent The Brothers Faversham]]'' and "UsefulNotes/TheBritishEmpire's greatest, sexiest and [[PregnantBadass most pregnant]] spy". We never actually see much of her own adventures as she's always the HeroOfAnotherStory, but her sons are invariably born slap-bang in the middle of them.
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121	* Several of the Seven Sisters in the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' setting ''Forgotten Realms''. Blessed by the goddess of magic to be her chosen servants, they are all powerful mages and almost immortal. Laeral, Dove, and Storm are all well known to have spent a lot of time digging through ancient ruins, but they also have very great reputations and are filthy rich.
122	* Despite it being the 1930s in ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'' lady adventurers are not uncommon. Exposure to alien cultures and a massive societal shift can cause that. The US Rocket Rangers even allows women into their ranks, though they are the only branch of the armed forces to do so.
123	* ''TabletopGame/{{Space 1889}}'' The main book makes this a career for female player characters. Since this is in Victorian times she is theoretically the loyal companion or servant of a male adventurer. This is just social camouflage, though.
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127	* ''VideoGame/TheAllianceAlive'' has Vivian von Esmerode, who is one of the Daemons who rule over all humanity but also a self-taught scholar who has just a lovely time fighting frontier beasts and clambering down factory ladders. (Her BattleButler is less enthused.) She gets involved in the plot because she's helping a famous scientist do field research.
128	* Nalia De'Arnise in ''[[VideoGame/BaldursGate Baldur's Gate II]]'' is actually a noble, but has decided to [[NonIdleRich actually do something]] instead of just sitting around at her families castle. Though she's not exactly very good at that before she joins the players group.
129	* Phoebe from ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'' is a rich heiress who happens to be an inventor and adventurer.
130	* ''Videogame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'' has Lady Aurelia Hammerlock, an EgomaniacHunter who comes from a wealthy family of upper-crust British stereotypes who travels the galaxy seeking dangerous game to hunt in order to alleviate the boredom that comes with being an exorbitantly wealthy heiress. As far as she's concerned, vault hunting on Elpis is simply a safari that gives her the chance to shoot lots of things.
131	* Madeleine from ''VideoGame/BugFables'' is a rich cicada killer wasp lady who goes around exploring dangerous corners of Bugaria with her [[TheJeeves butler]] Seb, requiring Team Snakemouth to help them out of various scraps. She even has a pith-colored summer hat, a leaf parasol, and dress-like color patterns on her skin that give her the stereotypical "19th-century aristocratic Englishwoman" look.
132	* Leliana in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' first appears to be a kind of nun and later a pious thief who found refuge in a monastery. However, she really is a professional spy and assassin who worked for the high society of her home country. She occasionally complains that even though traveling on the road and fighting the undead horde is fun, she really misses the fine clothes and art of her country and the company of other more sophisticated people.
133	* After the events of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', Lady [[note]]an honorary title given to Yuna for her service to the people of Spira[[/note]] Yuna donned a skirt and twin pistols to hunt artifacts with a RagtagBunchOfMisfits. Unlike most examples of the trope, Yuna had a rather repressed childhood, so she's more making up for lost time than pursuing a lifelong career.
134	-->"We fly all over Spira... I'm really enjoying myself."
135	* Estellise in ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia''--even though Flynn constantly tells her she should get back to the castle.
136	* Lady Jane and Lady Jayne from the ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters'' series. (They might be the same woman- it's hard to tell with the difference in graphics between games.)
137	* Lara Croft in the ''Franchise/TombRaider'' games.
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141	* In ''Webcomic/{{Darken}}'', [[TheBaroness Duchess]] Jill d'Avron is quite happy to feather her nest as a serial BlackWidow, but happily joins Gort's group of {{Villain Protagonist}}s -- first for the hefty reward for harvesting a rare monster's eye, and then because collecting [[ArtifactOfDoom Artifacts of Doom]] for a [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils Duke of Hell]] in an infernal power play helps one cultivate all ''sorts'' of contacts.
142	* ''Webcomic/DelilahDirk'' is this to a tee. Her dad was an ambassador, she adventures constantly, and has an appropriate outfit.
143	* Jade English of ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'': Adoptive granddaughter of [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Betty Crocker]] and [[CaptainErsatz Colonel]] [[Creator/MarkTwain Sassacre]], something of a GadgeteerGenius, and a counterrevolutionary who maintains a secret base on a tropical island filled with fantastic beasts.
144	%%* Vesper Grey from ''Webcomic/{{Plume}}.''
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148	* Eleonora from ''Literature/GreekNinja''. Sasha and Electra somewhat qualify, but adventure found them rather than them seeking it out. Eleonora was quick to hop in on the adventure when the opportunity presented itself.
149	%%* Lady Potts from ''Theatre/TheLeagueOfSTEAM''.
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153	* Goldie of ''WesternAnimation/GoldieGoldAndActionJack''. Goldie is part of an OldMoney family, but they still have a history of members being adventurers.
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156	[[folder:Real Life]]
157	* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Sanford_Legendre Gertrude Sanford Legendre]] (1902-2000) was an American socialite who served as a spy during World War II. She was also a noted explorer, big-game hunter, environmentalist, and owner of Medway plantation in South Carolina. She spent 1923 to 1929 travelling the world as a big-game hunter in South Africa, Canada, and Alaska. Shortly after exploring Abyssinia for the American Museum of Natural History as part of the Sanford-Legendre Abyssinia Expedition, Gertrude Sanford married the expedition's co-leader Sidney J. Legendre on 17 September 1929. During WWII, Legendre worked for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), essentially as a spy. She was the first American woman captured on the western front in France by the Germans. Legendre was held as a prisoner of war for six months and then escaped into Switzerland. She lived to be 97 and wrote two autobiographies, one in 1948 and another in 1987. She once said, "I don't contemplate life. I live it."
158	* [[Film/OutOfAfrica Karen Blixen]]. The RealLife one.
159	* Among her many pursuits [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Boothe_Luce Clare Boothe Luce]] who was an IntrepidReporter during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.
160	* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Mitford Jessica Mitford,]] who was born into the upper class but rejected her UpperClassTwit family because of their far-right political leanings and became a political activist (notably involved with the Communist Party and civil rights activism) and an investigative journalist.
161	* Legendary British traveler and authoress [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Bird Isabella Bird.]] A condensed list of the places she visited and wrote about: Australia, Hawaii, [[TheWildWest Colorado,]] Japan, Manchuria, Indochina, India, Tibet, Persia, Kurdistan, Turkey, and Morocco. Small wonder she was the first woman inducted into the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Geographical_Society Royal Geographical Society.]]
162	* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Digby Lady Jane Digby,]] aristocratic beauty and adventurer, she ditched her husband the Earl of Ellenborough to elope with her lover, the Austrian statesman Felix zu Schwarzenberg. Felix abandoned her in Paris, but Jane soon found a lover of means -- King Ludwig I of Bavaria. She wed another nobleman, Baron Karl von Venningen, and had a son with him, only to fall madly in love with Spyridon Theotokis. Her husband challenged Spyridon to a duel; although Karl wounded her lover, he agreed to release Jane from her marriage and astonishingly enough continued to be her friend. Her marriage to Spyridon survived her affair with King Otto I of Greece, but after their only son died tragically, he and Jane divorced. She took up with an Albanian brigand named Hristodoulos Hadzipetros, fighting alongside his men and living in caves, only to walk out on him after catching him with another woman. At forty-six, Jane Digby traveled to Damascus and enchanted Sheik Abdul Medjuel el Mezrab, twenty years her junior. She refused to marry him unless he sent his other wives back to their fathers, which he did. They were happily married for the rest of her life. Jane Digby died at 74, after a lifetime of passion and adventure.
163	* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Bell Gertrude Bell]] (1868 – 1926), was a RealLife AdventureArchaeologist who served as a spy and diplomat in the Middle East during World War I, was a mentor to the famous Film/LawrenceOfArabia, and played a major role in reshaping the Middle East after the fall of the Ottoman Empire following the war. She founded the Iraqi Archaeological Museum ([[WhyWeCantHaveNiceThings which was sadly extensively looted during the 2003 invasion]]) and is still remembered with fondness among the people of the region, no small accomplishment for both a foreigner and a woman.
164	* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Baker Lady Florence Baker,]] wife of explorer Samuel Baker. When Baker first met her she was a white slave destined for the [[RoyalHarem harem]] of an Ottoman noble. Baker fell in love with her, and first tried to purchase her freedom. When that failed he bribed the guards and ran away with her. Then they fell in love and married and she followed him on his expeditions into the most unknown and dangerous parts of Africa. This story is so [[{{Melodrama}} melodramatic]] few writers today would use but [[RealityIsUnrealistic it really did happen]].
165	* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly Nellie Bly,]] one of the first investigative reporters in the world and almost certainly the first female investigative reporter. Her adventures included [[Literature/AroundTheWorldInSeventyTwoDays a race to travel around the world in fewer than 80 days]]; she sent telegrams to her publisher from every country she visited as a means of tracking her progress. She also once faked insanity in order to be admitted to an asylum and write about conditions on the inside, which prompted severe changes to the inhumane system for treating the mentally ill. That said, she bucked part of the tradition by being born and raised dirt-poor and making her own advantages.
166	* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginny_Fiennes Ginny Fiennes]] (AKA Lady Virginia Frances Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes), late wife of explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes and, amongst other achievements, the first woman to receive the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polar_Medal Polar Medal.]]
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