Today in Women�s History

Women's History - February 20th

1874 - Today, Mary Garden was born in Aberdeen, Scotland.   Her parents immigrated to the U.S. (Illinois) when she was, some say six years old and others say nine-years-old. She went on to become a famous soprano opera singer. She had a long association with the Chicago Grand Opera, being their leading soprano (and being their prima donna in the lyric repertoire) for twenty years. She sang all her roles in French.

Source: http://www.cantabile-subito.de/Sopranos/Garden__Mary/hauptteil_garden__mary.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Garden

Women's History - February 22nd

1892 - Today, Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine (USA). She went on to become one of the most popular poets and playwrights of her era. She was admired for her youthful and bohemian lifestyle as much as for her verses. She wrote satiric sketches (for Vanity Fair) under the pseudonym, Nancy Boyd. She was an acknowledged bisexual (expressed in some of her work and films).

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_St._Vincent_Millay



Edited by morticia - 22-Feb-2007 at 16:07

Women's History - February 24th

1887 - Today, Mary Ellen Chase was born in Blue Hill, Maine (USA). She went on to become one of the leading writers of her era. She wrote eleven best-selling novels, five books on the Bible, several biographies, thirteen short stories, dozens of essays and numerous magazine articles.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ellen_Chase

Women's History - February 26th

1987 - Today, the General Synod of the Church of England voted to support the ordination of women priests.

Here�s the story:

http://womenshistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=womenshistory&cdn=education&tm=26&gps=133_371_766_513&f=22&su=p284.5.420.ip_&tt=2&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/26/newsid_2516000/2516299.stm

Women's History - February 28th

1797 - Today, Mary Lyon was born in Buckland, MA (USA). She went on to become an American educator and founder of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary and an important model for the education of women. Establishing a large financial endowment for the female seminary was one of her most significant contributions.

Source:   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lyon
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/marylyon/

Women's History - March 2nd

1949 - Sarojini Naidu died today in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh , India. She was the first woman to become governor of a state in India. She was also the first woman in India to become president of the Indian National Congress.

Source: http://www.ceeby.com/people/sarojininaidu.cfm

Women's History - March 4th

1913 - Today, Marguerite Taos Amrouche was born in Tunis. She went on to become the first Algerian woman writer. Her first autobiographical novel was published in 1947. She wrote in French and, while she wrote, she sang in Kabyle. She also became a singer and her first album �Chants berberes de Kabylie, made its debut in 1939 and were a compilation of traditional Kabyle songs, translated to French by her elder brother, Jean Amrouche. An activist in Berber issues, she was one of the founders of Academie berbere in 1966.

Source: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taos_Amrouche
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taos_Amrouche

Women's History - March 6th

1937 - Today, Valentina Tereshkova was born in Yaroslavl Region of Russia. She went on to become a cosmonaut and the first woman to travel in space in 1963 when she was launched aboard the �Vostok6", making 48 orbits of Earth, and spending nearly three days in space. Subsequently, she became a representative of the Soviet government and communist party and never went back in space again.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentina_Tereshkova

Women's History - March 8th

TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

1857 - Today, women workers in New York City strike for higher wages, shorter hours, and better working conditions. In commemoration of same, International Women�s Day has since been celebrated on March 8th all around the world. Fifty years later on the same day (March 8, 1908) thousands of women marched again, demanding better pay, abolishment of child labor, better conditions, voting rights, etc. Women are still fighting for equal rights and the same benefits afforded to men, and hopefully will keep on fighting until same has been accomplished!

Source: http://www.saidit.org/archives/mar00/mar_rememberthis.html

Women's History - March 10th

1876 - Today, Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA). She developed an interest in animals from her father, who was a professor of Paleontology at Harvard. She studied sculpture and went on to become a famous artist with sculptures consisting of animals made in bronze, like these :







Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Hyatt_Huntington