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Championess
Championess | Tarun Shanker, Kelly Zekas
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Based on a true story, in eighteenth century London, Elizabeth Wilkinson struggles to make ends meet for her and her sister Tess while facing the fiercest female bare-knuckle boxers of her day.
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Soscha
Championess | Tarun Shanker, Kelly Zekas
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An excellent read. Great art, some heartbreaking situations as this is based on real Georgian England with Black & Indian Englishmen that can never, will never be considered nor treated like real Englishmen.

Racism, duplicity, winning when life has little else to offer you.

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LibrarianRyan
Championess | Tarun Shanker, Kelly Zekas
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3.5 ⭐
I wasn‘t sure what to make of this book by the title and cover alone. It‘s about women‘s boxing in the Victorian era. It wasn‘t something that was done. But for a “half-bread” Indian (from India) that may be the only way she can raise enough money to get her and her sister out of the Mist and keep them away from debtors prison. This graphic novel started out quite slow. I almost DNFed it, but am happy that I read to completion.

LibrarianRyan Once the story starts to build it moves pretty quick. It shows how prejudice was alive and well other places than just America. This book was about so much more than boxing, but the boxing is what makes it so intriguing and worth the read. 3y
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