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Monday, July 22, 2019

Polish researcher identified possible grave of Slavic warrior woman in Denmark

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From  Science in Poland :  Militant Viking women have been popularised in recent years in mass culture by the popular TV series Vikings. Dr....
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How the society controls a woman’s sexual, matrimonial and reproductive choices

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From  Daily O :  Honour Killings .... Each case is telling of the severe violence and hate that emanates when a woman exercises her choice i...
Friday, July 5, 2019

Sor Juana, Founding Mother of Mexican Literature

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From  JSTOR Daily : From a convent in New Spain, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz became one of the leading lights of the Spanish Baroque’s golden ...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

How Irish was Iris? The life and times of the first Irish-born Booker Prize-winner

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From the  I rish Times :  Iris Murdoch: ‘Being a woman is like being Irish’, one of her characters said. The first Irish-born writer to win ...

Merit-Ptah, the world's first known female physician from Egypt

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Face2Face Africa :  Centuries before some areas in Europe would consider women in the medical field, Africa already had female medical pract...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Is this Welsh princess the first British woman author?

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From  The Independent :  Britain's earliest known woman writer is identified as a 12th century Welsh princess who died fighting the Norm...
Sunday, June 2, 2019

The 15th Century Royal Mistress Forced to Walk London’s Streets in her Underwear | Ancient Origins

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From  Ancient Origins :  Elizabeth ‘Jane’ Shore was an Englishwoman who lived between the 15th and 16th centuries. She is best remembered as...

Henry VIII 'may have divorced Anne of Cleves because she already had a baby with someone else'

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From  The Telegraph :  Henry VIII may have set aside his fourth wife Anne of Cleves because she had already conceived a baby with someone el...
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The Lioness of Brittany and her Black Fleet of Pirates

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From  Ancient Origins :  In the midst of the Hundred Years War between England and France, an enraged French woman named Jeanne de Clisson t...