Mind Blowing Female Daredevils!
Helen Gibson: Hazards of Helen, 1915-1917, Image via jgodsey
There’s no more stirring a spectacle than women performing hair-raising feats of daring, endeavour and endurance, while the audience looks on, awestruck. Meanwhile, from the performer’s point of view there can surely be little as empowering – a show of virtuoso prowess to leave the gapers agape.
Bird Millman: Walking tall above NYC.
Ethel Dare (perfect name eh?)
