For #LGBTHistoryMonth I will be posting a #womaninhistory every day. Today is Anne Lister an English landowner, business woman, intrepid traveller, mountaineer and diarist from Halifax, West Yorkshire who is sometimes described as ‘the first modern lesbian’. Lister was renowned for only dressing in dark clothing and rebelling against the strict gender stereotypes of her …
Alix Kates Shulman is a feminist, political activist and writer of fiction, memoirs, and essays. Shulman was one of the early radical activists of second-wave feminism and In 1967 she joined the new Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM), becoming a member of the early groups New York Radical Women, Redstockings, WITCH, and New York Radical Feminists. …
This weeks Illustrated Woman in History was submitted by Sofia Lesage. It is featured in the Women’s History Month 2019 zine.
This weeks Illustrated Woman in History was submitted by Daniela Villarreal. It is featured in the Women’s History Month 2019 zine. Click here to buy. Gabriela Mistral was the first female Latin American poet to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. She received it in 1945. The Nobel citation read: “for her lyric poetry which, inspired …
This weeks Illustrated Woman in History was written by Jen Green & illustrated by Becca Lewis. It is featured in the Women’s History Month 2019 zine. Click here to buy Nan Shepherd was a writer, mountaineer and lecturer.She is best known for her novels, poetry and non-fiction and was pioneering in her writing about the Cairngorms, …
Enid Blyton submitted by Rachel Nesbitt (www.rachelnesbitt.com) for the Women’s History Month 2019 zine which will be available in March. Submissions are still open! Enid Blyton was an English author. She was born on August 11, 1897 in London. She produced many stories, poems, articles and educational books for children. Her first piece of …
Ntozake Shange was an American playwright and poet best known for the Obie Award-winning play for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf. She was a self-proclaimed black feminist, and her work frequently addressed race and feminism. Shange was born Paulette L. Williams in 1948 in Trenton, New Jersey, where …
Dora Montefiore was a women’s suffragist, socialist, poet and writer. Montefiore was born at Kenley Manor near Coulsdon, Surrey. She was educated at home, before being sent to Mrs Creswell’s school in Brighton. In 1874, she travelled to Sydney where she met and married George Barrow Montefiore. They had two children before he was tragically …
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: …