This weeks Illustrated Women in History was submitted by Kristina A. Boylan, with the biography in both English and Spanish. Jovita Valdovinos Medina led soldiers in Mexico’s Cristero rebellion, an insurrection against the 1926 implementation of the anticlerical provisions of the Mexican Constitution of 1917 (the name derives from their battle cry “Viva Cristo Rey”/“Long …
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Tereza de Benguela
This weeks Illustrated Women in History was written by Manu Escrita, and illustrated by Cecília Silveira. It will be featured in the Illustrated Women in History zine #5 which will be available in February. Tereza de Benguela, also known as Queen Tereza, is one of the most important figures in Afro-Brazilian history and the inspiration …
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
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 …
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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: …
Charlotte Brontë
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 …
Margaret of Austria
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, …
Diana, Princess of Wales
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 …
Marie Stopes
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
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 …
Virginia Woolf
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 …