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#OnThisDay, 30 May 2012, Madeline Miller wins the Orange Prize (now the Baileys Prize) with her debut novel The Song of Achilles. It is a retelling of the Iliad from the perspective of Patroclus.
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#OnThisDay, 27 April 1925, Edna Ferber wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel 'So Big'.
She donates the prize money to the Authors League to support sick and elderly authors.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #ReadMoreWomen #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1988, Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
#ReadMoreWomen #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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Happy Minna Canth day, Finland!
Born #OnThisDay, 19 Mar 1844, Minna Canth was a Finnish playwright and social activist. Public buildings will fly the national flag to celebrate.
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#OnThisDay, 14 Jan 1963, Sylvia Plath's only novel, 'The Bell Jar' is published in the UK under the name Victoria Lucas. It’s republished in her own name in 1967.
Bonus article on some of the, er, curious cover choices. You can probably date yourself by which cover you recognise.
https://lithub.com/15-covers-for-the-bell-jar-ranked-from-most-to-least-sexist/#LiteraryWomen #ReadMoreWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 1 Jan 1818, Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' was published anonymously. Her gothic novel was also one of the first science-fiction novels.
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#OnThisDay, 23 Dec 1815, the much-anticipated fourth novel “by the author of Pride and Prejudice”, Emma, is published.
Jane Austen died 18 months later, never seeing her work published under her name. This wasn't that unusual at the time: women who wrote would obscure their identity on their work, even if their authorship of it was common knowledge.
We're rather fond of the 2020 adaptation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmcJEeeT-us
#WomenInHistory #OTD #WomensHistory #ReadMoreWomen #BritishHistory #Histodons
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"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge."
#OnThisDay, 7 Dec 1993, Toni Morrison gives her Nobel lecture, part of her acceptance of the Nobel prize in literature.
Watch her speech here: https://nobel-videocdn01.azureedge.net/video/lecture_1993_lit_morrison_98_496.mp4
#ReadMoreWomen #NobelWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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“To make something good of the future, you have to look the present in the face.”
#OnThisDay, 6 Dec 1954, Simone de Beauvoir wins the Prix Goncourt with her novel ‘The Mandarins’.
She was the third woman to win the Goncourt since it was founded in 1903. Only 14 of the 113 winners have been women.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #ReadMoreWomen #FrenchHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 7 Nov 2000, Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood wins the Booker Prize for fiction for the first time, having previously been nominated 3 times (including for the Handmaid's Tale in 1986).
She wins again in 2019, jointly sharing the prize with Bernardine Evaristo.
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#OnThisDay, 30 May 1899, Pearl Hart (and Joe Boot) hold up a stagecoach in Arizona: it's one of just two recorded instances of a woman holding up a coach in the US.
#AmericanHistory #ArizonaHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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We missed one of our favourites yesterday...
On 1 April 1983, around 200 women dressed as teddy bears or Easter bunnies break into the Greenham Common airbase in the UK to stage a protest picnic against nuclear warfare. Greenham was due to house US nuclear missiles.
A further 40,000 protestors, men and women, form a human chain linking Greenham to #Aldermaston and Burghfield.
#WomenInHistory #PeaceProtests #BritishHistory #GreenhamCommon #History #Hisotodons
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We missed one of our favourites yesterday...
On 1 April 1983, around 200 women dressed as teddy bears or Easter bunnies break into the Greenham Common airbase in the UK to stage a protest picnic against nuclear warfare. Greenham was due to house US nuclear missiles.
A further 40,000 protestors, men and women, form a human chain linking Greenham to #Aldermaston and Burghfield.
#WomenInHistory #PeaceProtests #BritishHistory #GreenhamCommon #History #Hisotodons
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We missed one of our favourites yesterday...
On 1 April 1983, around 200 women dressed as teddy bears or Easter bunnies break into the Greenham Common airbase in the UK to stage a protest picnic against nuclear warfare. Greenham was due to house US nuclear missiles.
A further 40,000 protestors, men and women, form a human chain linking Greenham to #Aldermaston and Burghfield.
#WomenInHistory #PeaceProtests #BritishHistory #GreenhamCommon #History #Hisotodons
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#OnThisDay, 25 Jan 1890, American journalist Nellie Bly arrives back in New York, becoming the first person to circumnavigate the world in less than 80 days (she took 72). In France she had met Jules Verne, whose fictional story inspired her trip. She was so popular in the US there was a board game of her journey.
Bly had already caused a stir after her undercover reporting from an asylum.
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#OnThisDay, 5 Jan 1925, Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated as Wyoming's governor. She is the first woman in the USA to govern a State. She went on to be the first woman to run the US Mint.
#WomenInPolitics #AmericanHistory
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#OnThisDay, 3 Jan 1933, Minnie Craig is elected speaker for North Dakota's House of Representatives.
She is the first woman to be speaker in a State legislature in the USA.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInPolitics #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.“
#OnThisDay, 7 Dec 1993, Toni Morrison gives her Nobel lecture, part of her acceptance of the Nobel prize in literature.
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#OnThisDay, 21 June 1913, Georgia 'Tiny' Broadwick becomes the first woman to parachute from an airplane. She goes on to complete the first known premeditated freefall by anyone at all whilst training WW1 pilots on how to jump from planes.
Read more, and see one of her parachutes, at the Air and Space Museum. https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/georgia-%E2%80%9Ctiny%E2%80%9D-broadwicks-parachute
#WomenInHistory #Histodons #HistoryOfFlight #Parachutes @histodons
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#OnThisDay, 7 Mar 1838, Jenny Lind makes her stage debut in Sweden. She became a global star, but no recordings seem to survive.
A fictional version of Lind appears in The Greatest Showman musical. -
#OnThisDay, 1 April 1983, around 200 women dressed as teddy bears or Easter bunnies break into the Greenham Common airbase in the UK to stage a protest picnic against nuclear warfare. Greenham was due to house US nuclear missiles.
A further 40,000 protestors, men and women, form a human chain linking Greenham to #Aldermaston and Burghfield.
#WomenInHistory #PeaceProtests #BritishHistory #GreenhamCommon #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 24 Aug 1896, an unknown woman cyclist has a beer at the bar in New Jersey - making headlines in the New York Times.
Chapeau!
#WomenInHistory #Histodons #Cycling #WomenCycling #AmericanHistory #ThrowbackThursday
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#OnThisDay, 19 Jan 1953, American actress Lucille Ball gets more viewers for an episode of her sitcom, I Love Lucy, than watch the inauguration of the US President Eisenhower the following day.
‘Lucy Goes to the Hospital' got a 71.9% audience share with 44 million viewers. Eisenhower's inauguration got 29 million.
#WomenInHistory #AmericanHistory #History #TelevisionHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 19 Jan 1953, American actress Lucille Ball gets more viewers for an episode of her sitcom, I Love Lucy, than watch the inauguration of the US President Eisenhower the following day.
‘Lucy Goes to the Hospital' got a 71.9% audience share with 44 million viewers. Eisenhower's inauguration got 29 million.
#WomenInHistory #AmericanHistory #History #TelevisionHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 14 Jun 1939, Ethel Waters stars in The Ethel Waters Show on NBC, becoming the first black person to have their own show on US TV. The one-hour variety show was a test of the tech.
[photo is from her radio show around the same time]
#WomenInHistory #Histodons #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #TelevisionHistory
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#OnThisDay, 19 Jan 1953, American actress Lucille Ball gets more viewers for an episode of her sitcom, I Love Lucy, than watch the inauguration of the US President Eisenhower the following day.
‘Lucy Goes to the Hospital', an episode in which her character gives birth, got a 71.9% audience share.
#WomenInHistory #AmericanHistory #History #TelevisionHistory
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#OnThisDay, 1 Apr 1792, former spy Etta Palm-Aelders speaks to the revolutionary French parliament.
Her demands?
The right for women to be admitted to civilian and military positions.
The education of girls to be based on the same principles as those of boys.
That women could become adults at the age of 21, and could get divorced.
Her demands were refused.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #FrenchHistory #LibertéÉgalitéFraternité #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 1 Apr 1792, former spy Etta Palm-Aelders speaks to the revolutionary French parliament, demanding the right for women to be admitted to civilian and military positions, that the education of girls be based on the same principles as those of boys, that women could become adults at the age of 21, and could get divorced.
Her demands are refused.
#WomenInHistory #FrenchHistory #Histodons #LibertéÉgalitéFraternité
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#OnThisDay, 1 Jan 1983, 44 women climb the fence of Greenham Common airbase and dance on the missile silos.
The women-led Peace Camps at Greenham ran for nearly 20 years, protesting the siting of US nuclear missiles on UK soil. https://greenhamwomeneverywhere.co.uk/
Photo by Raissa Page.
#PeaceActivism #BritishHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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#OnThisDay, 1 Jan 1983, 44 women climb the fence of Greenham Common airbase and dance on the missile silos.
The women-led Peace Camps at Greenham ran for nearly 20 years, protesting the siting of US nuclear missiles on UK soil. https://greenhamwomeneverywhere.co.uk/
Photo by Raissa Page.
#PeaceActivism #BritishHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons