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Source, Women's History

Black History Month: History in Fiction

WHN / October 12, 2011

Black history continues to discover new knowledge and generate new understanding. But today I want to celebrate a different kind of history, that which makes no bones about its invented characters, invented situations, invented scenes, yet which succeeds in telling…

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General, Women's History

Black History Month: What is Black?

WHN / October 5, 2011

What is Black? Searching for that word within the Cultural Formation tag in the Orlando digital history of women’s writing brings up, of course, a number of writers with unmixed African descent: from Phillis Wheatley and Mary Prince through Zora…

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Biography, Women's History

Women’s History Month: Ethel Smyth

WHN / March 31, 2011

On 11 March 1903 Ethel Smyth became the first woman composer to have her work performed at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, when the Met put on her second opera, Der Wald. Music, like literature, has historically been divided…

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Biography, Women's History

Women’s History Month: Mary Wortley Montagu

WHN / March 26, 2011

On 26 March 1716 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s satirical mock-eclogues “Monday”, “Thursday”, and “Friday” were illicitly printed by the notorious Edmund Curll under the title of Court Poems. This therefore seems as good a day as any for remembering Montagu,…

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Biography, Women's History

Women’s History Month: Eunice Guthrie Murray

WHN / March 24, 2011

On 26 March 1960 the Scottish activist for women’s rights Eunice Guthrie Murray died of a stroke. She was eighty-two, and her historical links reached back through her American mother to the campaign for the abolition of slavery. Her mother…

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Biography, Women's History

Women’s History Month: Marie Stopes

WHN / March 17, 2011

On 17 March 1921 Marie Stopes and her husband of three years, Humphrey Verdon Roe, founded the Mothers’ Clinic for Constructive Birth Control at 61 Marlborough Road, Holloway, North London; it was the first birth control clinic in England. For…

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Biography, Women's History

Women’s History Month: Pandita Ramabai

WHN / March 11, 2011

On 11 March 1889 the Indian activist known as Pandita Ramabai opened her Sharada Sadan (or Home for Learning) in Chowpatty, an area of Mumbai (which was then, under the British Raj, known as Bombay). She designed this institution to…

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Biography, Women's History

Women’s History Month: Caroline Herschel

WHN / March 5, 2011

On 5 March 1777 Caroline Herschel made her first appearance as a professional singer (her brother William conducting), at the Upper Assembly Rooms at Bath in Handel’s oratorio Judas Maccabeus.This information comes from Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles…

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Biography, Source, Women's History

Black History Month: Mary Prince

WHN / October 31, 2010

In September 1831 the Anti-Slavery Society in London published The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Related by herself. Prince, who was illiterate, had dictated her story, at her own suggestion, to a young abolitionist named Susanna Strickland…

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