Virago

A man-like, vigorous, and heroic woman; a female warrior; an amazon.

//"She spent all the next day going from house to house, the invitation list in her hand, in a house dress and a shawl and one of the Coldfield negroes (they were both women) following her, perhaps for protection, perhaps just sucked along like a leaf in the wake of that grim **virago** fury of female affront.." (AA 42).//

–Megan Mitchell