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Claire Bretécher
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Nise da Silveira
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Madeleine Sophie Arnould
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Ghenia Avril de Sainte Croix
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Susan B. Anthony
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German author
Born 11 February 1780 in Karlsruhe
Died 26 July in Winkel in Rheingau
200th anniversary of death on 26 July 2006
Karoline, the oldest of six siblings, came from a cultivated but impoverished aristocratic family. In 1797 she entered a residence for noblewomen in Frankfurt, an institution in which poor unmarried aristocratic ladies were cared for and could live respectably while still keeping an eye out for a suitable marriage partner. Karoline was described as beautiful, gentle and shy. She and her friend Lisette Mettingh discussed society’s discrimination against women. One way to escape such limitations was education, which Karoline acquired by indefatigable reading. She was soon as knowledgeable as the best-educated of her time. Karoline concerned herself with literature, philosophy, far-eastern and Norse mythology, chemistry, geography, history of religion, physiognomy, Latin and prosody. She also wrote dramas, poetry, and above all letters—the letter established itself during the Romantic period as a literary genre in its own right. Letters were a demonstration of intellectual…read more
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Judith Leyster
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Nina Hamnett
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Susan Brownmiller
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Born December 15, 1913 in New York
Died February 12, 1980 in New York
US-American poet and author
Muriel Rukeyser inspired many readers and writers of our time with her passionate, life-affirming poems and courageous, lifelong advocacy for social justice. Two important anthologies of the U.S. women's movement have lines from her work as their titles: No More Masks! (1973 ed. by Ellen Bass and Florence Howe) and The World Split Open (1974, ed. by Louise Bernikow). In her 50-year career, this enormously prolific woman published 16 volumes of poetry, three biographies, two novels, a volume of essays, translations, and six children's books. Rukeyser saw her mission as transforming herself and others through the poetic struggle to communicate, thereby making new realities possible.
Muriel Rukeyser was the first daughter of a wealthy Jewish-American family and experienced a privileged, sheltered childhood. She studied at Vassar College for two years, but quit when her father went bankrupt during the Great Depression and began writing. Because of her reporting and poetry on…read more
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Louisa Catherine Adams
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