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Remembering German #painter & illustrator Jeanne Mammen, #BOTD 1890. The Nazis condemned her work as 'too Jewish' and closed down many of the journals she worked for. After the war she gathered the detritus from the devastated streets of Berlin to make reliefs #WomensArt #LBGTQ

'In this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.' Radclyffe Hall #poet, #author #BOTD 1880. 'The Well of Loneliness', subject of an obscenity trial in the UK, resulted in an order for the destruction of all copies of the book https://t.co/l1IL5O0wLx @WomenRead

Famous for documentation of butterfly #metamorphosis, scientific illustration: Maria Sibylla Merian, #BOTD 1647, naturalist and illustrator, engraver contributor to field of #Entomology @4womeninscience @CarveHerName @davidattenburro @WomenArtists1 @Herstory_Club @WomenRead

'...despite all that beauty of Gower, it was industry which attracted me' Remembering Welsh artist Valerie Ganz on St David's Day: she focused on painting people at work, and spent several days a week down 14 pits to paint miners #womensart #Mining #MiningNews #StDavidsDay #work

'I never painted for the glory of war, but to portray its pathos and heroism'. Elizabeth Thompson, BOTD 1846, specialised in #painting scenes from military campaigns and battles, including Crimean and Napoleonic Wars @womensart1 @SWAinfo #WomensArt @NoteArtHerstory @liber8women

Only one week left to catch the entrancing Sophie Taeuber-Arp exhibition @Tate modern: painter, weaver, #architect, woodturner, #sculptor, interior designer, embroiderer... her craft skills were as miraculous
as her imagination @ralphharrington #WomensArt @craftsmagazine

'a triumph of individual distinction': that's how the NY Times critic described suffragist Sophie Treadwell's play Machinal, premiered #OTD 1928. This expressionist #drama was part of a varied output of #journalism, plays & #fiction @WomenRead @NationalTheatre @WomenInTheatre

'I broke all the rules of decent behaviour' - but thankfully artist Kathleen Hale, #BOTD in 1898, still found time to create beloved children's character Orlando the Marmalade Cat, writing & illustrating 19 books about him #childrensbook @PuffinBooks @WomenRead #illustration

Her 'summary of outmoded laws pertaining to women' and campaigning for women's rights ensured #artist & co-founder of the English Woman's Journal Barbara Bodichon, #BOTD 1827, a place in the pantheon of English #feminists #womensart @ralphharrington @feministlibrary @royalacademy

'Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful' - Astrid Lindgren, who began writing the Pippi Longstocking stories #OTD in 1944 to amuse her daughter #ChildrensBooks @WomenRead #literacy @Booktrust #translation #childhood #childhoodmemories #readingforpleasure