In times and places where women were captured and forced into marriage/concubinage, did any women ever just flat out kill their new "husbands"?

by ablazejellyfish

I know that kidnapping women to be wives/concubines has been pretty common in history, but I haven't heard much about how said women reacted to their situations. Did any of them ever respond by straight up killing their captors when they got the chance? It seems like there would be a lot of opportunities living in close quarters, even if it meant certain death afterward.

Alternatively, did women resist in other ways? E.g. breaking stuff, stealing, being crap at jobs they were given, refusing to move or do anything, committing infanticide rather than raise their rapists' children, committing suicide, etc.

dandan_noodles

This is mentioned in both Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom and What Remains, two very good introductions to the Taiping Civil War (1851-1864)

A Xiangxiang county, Hunan gazetteer honored Huang Shuhua, a woman who lived in Nanjing (then the capital of a rebellion against the Emperor) with her brothers and her mother. Taught to read and write by her brothers, she was brought up on stories of chastity unto death. When Viceroy Zeng Guofan's brother and top general, Zeng Guoquan, recaptured the city, she initially celebrated the dynasty's victory over the rebels. The day after the fall of the city, soldiers came into her house and killed her two older brothers and ransacked their rooms. When her mother knelt and began weeping, they got angry and killed her mother, her little brother, and her sister in law. She begged them to kill her too, but the soldier laughed and told her he loved her, and would not kill her. They tied her up for transport back along the river into Hunan, and stopped along the way at a hostel, where Huang wrote an essay explaining what happened to her, along with ten poems. Leaving her essay on the wall, she killed her two captors, then hanged herself.