ENORMOUS CHANGES AT THE LAST MINUTE WOMEN, TRUMP & BREXIT A seminar series on women’s rights, challenges, perspectives, hopes and empowerment Baroness Joyce Gould, WWAFE Patron, chairs our 2017 series: Enormous Changes at the Last Minute – Women,…
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Laura Bullion, 1876 – 1961 and Pearl Hart, c1871- unknown
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…
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…
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…
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…
Third Annual Commemoration for Brave British Women in Medical Missions in Serbia and other fronts during the Great War
Zvezdana Popovik has provided information on two events. The first was the subject of the WHN Blog on 22nd March. However, as a reminder: Since 2017 marks the centenary of Dr Elsie Inglis’s death, Guest speaker, Alan Cumming, Scottish Women’s Hospitals…
WRITING ART: WOMEN AS ART CRITICS IN THE LONG EIGTHTEENTH CENTURY
Conference: Writing Art: Women Writers as Art Critics in the Long Eighteenth Century Saturday 25th February 2017 Venue: Chawton House Library Long thought to be the domain of wealthy men, art criticism and connoisseurship underwent a transformation in the…