On This Day Sheさんのイラストまとめ

Gertrude's sister, Alice B. Woodward, was also a paleoartist but better known as a children's book illustrator. She exhibited paintings at the 91 Art Club, a club for women artists. Her dinosaur reconstructions appeared in the Illustrated London News. 2/2 https://t.co/5JvMok9wG5

#otd in 1920 Mary Tourtel, artist and author, saw her iconic character, Rupert Bear ("Little Lost Bear") published for the first time in the UK's Daily Express newspaper. Tourtel's works have sold 50 million copies internationally. Happy birthday Rupert!
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#OTD in 1902, Beatrix Potter's 'Tale of Peter Rabbit' was published by Frederick Warne & Co. Her 'tales' have now sold over 250 million copies. A keen conservationist, she purchased most of the land that now makes up the Lake District National Park. https://t.co/LQ3UwpA2au

On Mexico's Independence Day we remember Zazil-Ha, early C16 princess of the Yucatec Maya, who married a shipwrecked Spaniard. Their children were the first mestizos. We found her through this excellent episode of @whatshernamepc - https://t.co/XO4hb7J5zh

16-year-old schoolgirl Lena Mukhina wrote a diary about the WW2 Siege of Leningrad which began #OTD in 1941. She documented her rage and concern, her cheerfulness despite everything, the horror of starvation. The diary runs until May 1942; in June she was evacuated from the city.

In 1820, Frances Currer—"head of all female book collectors in Europe"— published a catalogue of her collection. She was also a philanthropist—Charlotte Brontë's pseudonym 'Currer Bell' might be a homage to the financial help Currer gave the Brontë family. https://t.co/qMQDnzA7oW

In 1892 Charlotte Perkins Gilman published The Yellow Wallpaper in New England Magazine. What seemed a Gothic horror story was in fact a semi-autobiographical account of postpartum psychosis and the failure of the “rest cure” prescribed by her male doctor. https://t.co/X68TIoxhLR

#OTD in the year 973, Ælfthryth was crowned queen of England, as consort to her husband Edgar. Influential in the religious politics of the time, she helped to secure the throne for her son Æthelred, probably by ordering the murder of her stepson Edward. https://t.co/JjzA4sib58

Fidelia Bridges painted 'as though the whole year were springtime', said one critic. Her detailed watercolours of flowers and birds were popular. First female member of the American Watercolor Society, she was also a governess to Mark Twain's children. https://t.co/HRjk1AzNGd

Evelyn Nesbit was the most famous model in the world in the early days of fashion photography; she was also a chorus girl & actress. #OTD in 1904, she married Harry Thaw. Thaw later killed Nesbit's former lover, involving her in the 'trial of the century'.
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