Sophie Munro Laura Bullion, 1876 – 1961 Laura was born in Texas in 1876 to a Native American father Henry Bullion and German mother Fredy Byler. Her father was an outlaw and acquainted with William Carver and Ben Kilpatrick…
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Josephine Baker, 1906 – 1975
Portrait of American singer, dancer, and actress Josephine Baker (1906 – 1925) in a military uniform, 1944. (Photo by John D. Kisch/Separate Cinema Archive/Getty Images) Sophie Munro Josephine was born as Freda in St. Louis, Missouri. Although publicly…
The Fruitful Body: Gender and Image
Annual Workshop of the Women’s Studies Group, 1558–1837 The Fruitful Body: Gender and Image The Foundling Museum, London, 6 May 2017 The Women’s Studies Group, 1558–1837 annual workshop takes place every spring at The Foundling Museum in London. A distinguished…
Real Women of Vikings
Sophie Munro Lagertha : The Viking Shieldmaiden Lagertha, wife of Ragnar Lodbrok” by artist Morris Meredith Williams, it appeared in “The Northmen in Britain” by Eleanor Means Hull in 1913. Lagertha, c. 12th Century According to the ancient…
Symposium on Mata Hari
The Legacy of Mata Hari: Women and Transgression A one-day symposium City, University of London 28 October, 2017 In October 1917, the woman known throughout the globe as Mata Hari was executed on espionage charges by a firing squad at…
ORLANDO: WOMEN’S WRITING IN THE BRITISH ISLES
NOTICE Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present” will again be free during March, Women’s History Month, at orlando.cambridge.org/. Username womenshistory17 Pword orlando17 Since last March we have added 2 new entries,…
Anne Bonny c.1690-c.1778
Sophie Munro The Pirate Anne Bonny – engraving from “A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates” written under the pseudonym Captain Charles Johnson in 1724. Anne was born around 1690 in Cork, Ireland.…
Andrée Peel, 1905 – 2010
Andrée Peel, 1905 – 2010:: First in a series of short biographies by Sophie Munro Andrée was born in France on 3rd February 1905. At the outbreak of World War II she owned a beauty salon in the port of Brest…
Security update and other changes for womenshistorynetwork.org
The womenshistorynetwork.org website has been updated to use the secure HTTPS protocol throughout the site to enhance the overall site security and to preserve members privacy when using the site. In general you should not notice any changes to the…