Today’s Illustrated Women in History was illustrated by Sophia Parsons Cope @soufexdraws and the biography was written by Melaina Leung. It will be included in the next Illustrated Women in History zine! Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston is a Japanese-American writer, best known for Farewell to Manzanar, her autobiographical novel about life in a Japanese internment camp during …
This weeks Illustrated Women in History was submitted by Bethany Weatherill and will be featured in the next Illustrated Women in History zine. The biography has been posted previously, here Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer. She is best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: …
Today’s Illustrated Women in History was submitted by Amy Kovac @kovvac and will be included in the next Illustrated Women in History zine! Charlotte Brontë 1816-1855 “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.” – Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë Charlotte Brontë has become one of …
This weeks Illustrated Women in History was submitted by Hannah Powell and will be included in the next Illustrated Women in History zine! Margaret of Austria Margaret was born in 1480, her father was the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian I who ruled over large swathes of western Europe, including Austria and the Netherlands. Her mother, …
The illustration for this weeks Illustrated Women in History was submitted by Philip Mole. The biography was submitted by Anna Sanderson. Diana, Princess of Wales, once a member of the British royal family, was a humanitarian who worked tirelessly to raise awareness of previously overlooked issues, such as homelessness, landmines and HIV. Diana Spencer was …
This weeks biography of a woman in history was submitted by Claire Healey Marie Stopes – Sex Advisor Extraordinaire Marie Stopes began her career as a scientist, studying botany and geology. She excelled in academia (despite the fact that she was initially not allowed to attend lectures, and after taking, and passing the same examinations as …
Danica Roem is an American journalist and politician of the Democratic Party from Northern Virginia. In the 2017 elections, she was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates. She will become the first openly transgender person to both be elected to a U.S. state’s legislature and serve her term. Roem was born in Prince William …
This weeks Illustrated Women in History was submitted by Elisa Braga “It seemed to her such nonsense – inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.” Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was a British Modernist writer and one of the first women to write openly about gender and sexuality in her time. Her stories …
This weeks Illustrated Women in History was illustrated by Nadia Linek Pina Bausch was a German performer of modern dance, choreographer, dance teacher and ballet director. She broke down the boundaries between ballet and theatre with her choreographed works incorporating dance, speech, music, and fantastical sets. Bausch was born in Solingen to August and Anita …
This weeks Illustrated Women in History was submitted by Taylor Anne Mordoh Mary Anning was a British Paleontologist and Geologist who was named in 2010 by the Royal Society as one of the ten most influential British women in scientific history. Born in 1799 Mary Anning first became known as a teenager as a fossil …