A Warrior of the People (2016) St Martin’s Press New York. Joe Starita Although a dedicated kindle reader, I picked up this biography and immediately felt the pleasure of holding a well published book. This one is comfortable to…
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From battered wife to major writer: Madame de Graffigny and her tell-all Correspondance
From battered wife to major writer: Madame de Graffigny and her tell-all Correspondance Posted on 6 March 2015 by voltairefoundation For International Women’s Day on 8 March we want to celebrate Madame de Graffigny, an exceptional eighteenth-century woman who overcame…
Françoise de Graffigny, gouvernante et observatrice de l’éducation des femmes
Republished from the Voltaire Foundation blog with the permission of Pippa Faucheux. WHN Admin. Posted on 8 March 2017 by voltairefoundation Françoise de Graffigny by Pierre-Augustin Clavareau. Lunéville, musée du château des Lumières. Photo: T. Franz, Conseil départemental 54. Pour…
Women doctors in WW1: fighting to do their bit
Katrina Kirkwood’s ‘Women doctors in WW1: fighting to do their bit’, could be read in conjunction with the information provided by Zvezdana Popovic and recently publicised in the WHN blog (Deeds Not Words). A ‘Taster ‘ from Kirkwood’s book, The Mystery of Isabella and…
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…
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…