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#OnThisDayInWomensHistory in 1908, Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first intercollegiate historically African American sorority was founded by a group of sixteen students led by Ethel Hedgeman Lyle.
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#OnThisDayInWomensHistory in 1879 painter Vanessa Bell was born.
In 1943 she painted ’The Memoir Club’ which depicts the Bloomsbury Group which she was a member.
According to poet Dorothy Parker they ‘Lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles’
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‘Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience’
#OnThisDayInWomensHistory in 1759 English Writer, philosopher and advocate of women’s education, Mary Wollstonecraft was born in Spitalfields, London.
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#OnThisDayInWomensHistory in 1893 author Beatrix Potter wrote a letter to 5yr old Noel Moore who was ill in bed, the letter was about a naughty rabbit called Peter.
"My dear Noel, I don't know what to write to you so I shall tell you a story about four little rabbits..." #OTD