When fourteen-year-old Pulisena Margherita Nelli crossed the threshold of the Dominican convent at Piazza San Marco…
Kategoria: Forgotten Women
Sutayta al-Mahamali: 10th-Century Math Pioneer
While European rulers of the 10th century struggled to sign their own names, mathematics was a…
Ruth Bourne and the Women Who Broke Nazi Codes
In December 2025, one of the last surviving operators of the legendary codebreaking machines that broke…
Alice Fletcher: Pioneer of American Anthropology
Alice Cunningham Fletcher spent nearly half a century studying the cultures of Native North Americans. Her…
Sarah Winnemucca: Voice of Native American Rights
She was called an Indian princess, though she never accepted that title herself. Sarah Winnemucca’s journey…
Frances Wright: Radical Voice for Women’s Rights
When Frances Wright took the stage in New York in 1828, she broke an unwritten rule…
Qiu Jin: China’s Martyr of Feminism
In July 1907, when three hundred imperial soldiers surrounded a sports school in Zhejiang province, its…
Frances Hodgson Burnett: Queen of Children’s Literature
The daughter of an ironmonger from Manchester became one of the most influential writers of the…
Jane Digby: The Scandalous Life of a Victorian Rebel
In an era when aristocratic women were expected to adorn men’s careers, Jane Digby decided to…
Eleanor Marx: Daughter of Karl, Feminist Icon
In a cramped two-room apartment on Dean Street in London’s Soho, a woman was born who…