Thanks to anyone who has attended my exhibition of Illustrated Women in History this weekend, and thanks to @fanclubzine for coming to play #riotgrrrl and sell zines (many of which contain Illustrated Women in History) which are available online here Selected framed prints of illustrations are currently up at HOURS Space in Bristol until the …
Author: Julie
Zelda Fitzgerald
Zelda Fitzgerald was an American novelist and socialite known as “the first American Flapper”. She was a huge influence on the work of her husband, author F. Scott Fitzgerald, who plagiarised her letters and diary to use in his own work and based many of his literary characters on her and her personal experiences. Fitzgerald …
Annie Turnbo Malone
Annie Turnbo Malone was an American businesswoman, inventor and philanthropist. She was the first female African-American millionaire, and made her fortune founding and developing a cosmetics business to provide products for, and educate and enable African-American women to become financially independent. Malone was born in 1869 in Metropolis, Illinois. She briefly attended public school in …
Shahla Sherkat
Shahla Sherkat is a journalist, prominent Persian feminist author, and one of the pioneers of the Women’s rights movement in Iran. Sherkat was born in 1956 in Isfahan, Iran. When she was 11, her family moved to Tehran. After finishing school, Sherkat continued her education at Tehran University where she earned a Bachelor’s degree in …
Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid was an Iraqi-British architect who became the first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize and the first woman to be awarded the RIBA Gold Medal in her own right. Hadid was born in 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. She attended boarding schools in England and Switzerland before continuing her education at the American …
Christine Jorgensen
Christine Jorgensen was an American trans woman who was the first person to become widely known in the United States for having gender reassignment surgery. Jorgensen was born in 1927 in the Bronx, New York City. From an early age, she knew that she identified as female and hated having to wear traditionally male clothes, …
Fabiola Gianotti
Fabiola Gianotti is an Italian particle physicist and the first woman to hold the position of Director-General of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN). Gianotti was born in 1960 in Rome, Italy. From a young age, she showed remarkable powers of concentration and developed talents in cooking, music and art at home, and Greek, …
Concepción Arenal
Concepción Arenal was a Spanish feminist writer and activist who founded the feminist movement in Spain. Arenal was born in 1820 in Ferrol, Galicia. In 1829, she and her family moved to Armaño following the death of her father. Arenal witnesses the social inequalities of the time, including the gender inequality imposed by the patriarchal …
Jenny Holzer
Jenny Holzer is an American installation and conceptual feminist artist who is best known for her use of original or borrowed text to create public works of art using LED signs and light projections. Holler was born in 1950 in Gallipolis, Ohio. She intended to become an abstract painter, and studied art at Duke University …
Rosa Luxemburg
This post is in collaboration with Sheroes of History who researched and wrote the biography of Rosa Luxemburg. Rosa Luxemburg died when she was just 47 years old, and was described as a small, frail woman. But in those 47 years she managed to pack enough in for two lifetimes and leave a huge impression …