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Literature and Writing
Instead of remarrying, in 1389 a 25 year old young widow became the first woman in medieval France to make a living as a writer
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Barbara Ehrenreich: "delusion is always a mistake. There are no safe delusions."
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Beatrix Potter's Greatest Work Was a Secret, Coded Journal She Kept as a Teen
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Favorite female philosophers?
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The Only Woman on the Beach at Normandy
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Alice Elizabeth Kober the woman whose work helped decipher the long lost Ancient Greek Writing System Linear B!
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Women's writing began much earlier than supposed, finds academic
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Daphne du Maurier (13 May 1907 - 19 April 1989)
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Rediscovering Pearl Buck, America’s Chinese Writer | Literary Tourism - Asia
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35 Brilliant Women from the History of Philosophy | by Maks Sipowicz | Medium
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How Medieval Women Expressed Their 'Forbidden' Emotions
(www.smithsonianmag.com)
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The Banquet of Life: Some of the Finest Advice on Growing Old, Growing Young, and Becoming Your Fullest Self – The Marginalian
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‘Woman’ and ‘Female’ Didn’t Start as Words About Men - The New York Times
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Calling all historians! Please help me preserve this little piece of 19th century women's history (Rosina Bulwer Lytton)
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Margaret Cavendish: meet the mother of science fiction
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Her Left Hand, The Darkness | Alison Smith | Granta
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Start a Riot (and a Zine), Grrrl - JSTOR Daily
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Women’s sex lives were a mystery to men. Then along came Shere Hite | Yvonne Roberts | The Guardian
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Hrotsvitha the first female writer from the Germanosphere, the first female historian, the first person since the Fall of the Roman Empire to write theatrical pieces in the Latin West, and the first German female poet...
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Forgotten verses give voice to humour of 19th century women
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“To Eat This Big Universe as Her Oyster”: Margaret Fuller and the First Major Work of American Feminism — The Public Domain Review
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Meet Mary Astell, England's "First Feminist" Who Challenged John Locke
(allthatsinteresting.com)
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Vale Dr Dale Spender AM: Brisbane’s brilliantly controversial writer, teacher, feminist [Obituary]
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Trina Robbins, Creator and Historian of Comic Books, Dies at 85 - The New York Times
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How Balzac created the myth of the spinster
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