Today’s Illustrated Woman in History was illustrated by Rebecca Warren and written by Christie Brewster @spawnartisticdirections. Kate Bush, classic and influential musical artist, is many things to many people. A sophisticated pop composer whose gift for melody, chords and arrangement ranks with the best of her contemporaries. Writer and performer of hits that still stand out on …
Today’s Illustrated Woman in History was drawn by Lily Grace Stewart and submitted for inclusion in the next Illustrated Women in History zine. Second Lieutenant Elsie S. Ott was a pioneer in air evacuation of military casualties and the first woman to receive the United States Air Medal. Ott was born in 1913 in Smithtown, …
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 …
Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist and United States Navy Rear Admiral. She was a pioneer in computer technology, and invented the first compiler for a computer programming language, which led to the widely used COBOL language. Hopper was born in 1906 in New York City. As a child, she became interested in how …
Doria Shafik was a feminist and founder of the Bint al-Nil Union who became one of the leaders of the women’s liberation movement in Egypt in the mid-1940s. Her efforts led to Egyptian women being granted the right to to vote by the Egyptian constitution. Shafik was born in 1908 in Tanta, in the Nile …
Annemarie Schwarzenbach was a Swiss writer, journalist, photographer and traveler who produced more than 300 articles and 5,000 photographs from her journeys across Europe, the United States, the Middle East and Africa. Schwarzenbach was born in 1908 in Horgen near Zurich, Switzerland to one of the richest families in Switzerland at the time. From an …
Today’s Illustrated Women in History is a written submission by Hollie Peck. HATSHEPSUT was the longest reigning female pharaoh in Ancient Egypt during the 18th dynasty. Her reign lasted for nearly two decades from 1479 to 1458 BC. Daughter to King Tuthmoses I and Queen Ahmose, she had two younger brothers who both died in …
Today’s Illustrated Women in History is a written submission by James Purvis. Caroline Herschel 1750 – 1848 Caroline Herschel was an astronomer and singer, and was the first woman to be paid for her contribution to science. At the age of 22 Herschel, who had received training in music against the wishes of her mother, …
Constance Markievicz, known as Countess Markievicz was an Irish Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil politician, revolutionary nationalist, suffragette and socialist. She was both the first woman elected to the British Parliament and the only woman to serve in the first Dáil Éireann (Irish Assembly). Markievicz was born in 1868 and grew up at Lissadell, her …
Charlotte Forten Grimké was an African-American teacher and one of the most influential anti-slavery activists of her time. She wrote extensive diaries covering the Civil War and post-war years which give an insight into the life of a free black woman in the North in the antebellum years. Grimké was born in 1837 in Philadelphia, …