In 1922, a young woman from provincial Georgia took the New York stage as the winner…
Kategoria: Forgotten Women
Emma Paterson: Founding Women’s Trade Unions
In Victorian England, where working-class women performed the toughest jobs for a fraction of male wages,…
Melpomeni Dina Gianopoulou. Unsung Greek Heroines of the Holocaust
In 2019, at Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem, a long-awaited reunion took place after more than seven decades.…
Gertrude Tuckwell: London’s First Woman Judge
When the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act came into force in the UK on December 24, 1919,…
Plautilla Nelli: Florence’s Forgotten Renaissance Artist
In sixteenth-century Florence, where art was a male domain, a fourteen-year-old girl from a wealthy merchant…
Laura Bassi: Europe’s First Female Physics Professor
When Laura Bassi entered the Bologna city hall in 1732 to defend her doctoral thesis, crowds…
Margaret Cavendish: The Remarkable 17th-Century Pioneer
When Margaret Cavendish entered the Royal Society of London in 1667, she caused quite a stir.…
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard: France’s Forgotten Art Pioneer
In 18th-century France, women were officially considered incapable of receiving artistic education on par with men.…
Elena Cornaro Piscopia. The First Female Doctorate
In 17th-century Europe, women never crossed university gates as students. Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia not only…
Maria Kirch: The Woman Who Discovered a Comet
In 1702, a woman in Berlin was the first to spot an unknown comet through a…