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 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 submitted by Rose Robbins. Highsmith was born in 1921, and both her parents were artists and her mother told her once that she’d tried to abort her by drinking turpentine. Highsmith cultivated a love of books from a young age, and in 1950 her first novel Strangers on …
This weeks Illustrated Women in History was submitted by Ramya Ramakrishnan for the Illustrated Women in History exhibition in April 2017 Swindon Central Library. Savitribai Phule: (1831 – 1897) Savitribai was an Indian social reformer, standing up for the injustices against women. She worked along with her husband, Jyotirao Phule. From child marriage, to the …
This weeks Illustrated Women in History was submitted by Sade John @sadiesavestheday for the Illustrated Women in History exhibition in April 2017 at Swindon Central Library. Banana Yoshimoto is the pen name of Japanese writer Mahoko Yoshimoto. She has achieved worldwide popularity for her unusual stories and characters. Yoshimoto began writing while at the College …
Lorraine Hansberry was an American playwright, civil rights activist and writer. Her groundbreaking play, A Raisin In The Sun was the first to be performed on Broadway written by a black woman and performed by a black cast. Hansberry was born in 1930 in Chicago, Illinois to politically active parents. Eight years later, after her …
Tove Jansson was a Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author best known as the creator of the Moomins. She received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1966 for her writing. Jansson was born in 1914 in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland which was then an autonomous part of the Russian Empire. Her …
Carrie Fisher: A Tribute “When someone famous dies, no matter how well you feel you know them, it’s near impossible to do justice to their memory. You might’ve seen every Star Wars movie a hundred times over; you might’ve memorised Carrie’s lines in When Harry Met Sally; Carrie’s characters might feel like old friends. Nonetheless, …
This weeks Illustrated Woman in History was illustrated and written by @ladieswhodraw. It is featured in the second issue of the Illustrated Women in History zine which you can order here. “A handful of truly exceptional writers helped give birth to the genre of confessional poetry, but to me, this genre’s true mother is …
Wanda Gág was an American artist, author, translator and illustrator. She wrote and illustrated the children’s book Millions of Cats, which won both a Newbery Honor Award and the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award. It is the oldest American picture book still in print. Gág was born in 1893 in New Ulm, Minnesota. Her parents, Elisabeth …