Damesnetさんのイラストまとめ

'... one act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world' - Ann Radcliffe, BOTD 1764, pioneer of Gothic fiction & author of The Mysteries of Udolfo, dubbed the 'mighty enchantress' by her contemporaries @feministlibrary @goodreads

Respect to Charlotte Scott, pioneering mathematician BOTD in 1858 - so many firsts: 1st maths dept. head at @BrynMawrCollege, 1st woman to join NY Maths Soc & author of 1st US maths paper to gain wide recognition in Europe @WomenInSTEM20 @womeninmaths @GirtonCollege #Algebra

Medical dames #5: here comes legendary Agnodice, credited as 1st female midwife in ancient Athens. Studied and worked as a physician disguised as a man. Acquitted on charges of practising illegally/seducing patients @deadladiesshow @WomenInMeds @WikiWomenInRed #NHSheroes #NHS

Damesnet daily dance track: is there anything more galvanising than the opening blast of 'Johnny B. Goode'? https://t.co/yGz1JiNRWO #dancedancedance

OTD 1921, 99 yrs ago, paleobotanist Marie Stopes opened Britain's first birth control clinic at 61 Marlborough Road, Upper Holloway. Wrote and campaigned for women's rights to conctraception @WomeninSTEM @deadladiesshow @WikiWomenInRed @WomensHistoryFB @F_yeah_history

Remembering suffragette, editor & philosopher of language Dora Marsden, BOTD 1878. She founded The Freewoman magazine for dissenting voices in suffrage movement & went on to champion new writing by Ezra Pound, TS Eliot, Amy Lowell & others #WorldBookDay @feministlibrary @WEP_UK

'While Ireland is not free I remain a rebel, unconverted and unconvertible' Saluting Constance Markievicz, BOTD 1868, Irish politician, revolutionary & suffragist who became the 1st woman elected to the Commons & the 1st cabinet minister in Europe @UK_Feminista @F_yeah_history

Remembering Estella Canziani (1887-1964) Painter of portraits, landscapes, illustrator and decorator. Painted scientific water colours in hospitals and author of 'Costume, Traditions and Songs of Savoy', and other works about Italian folklore.@royalacademy @WikiWomenInRed

' . . . the extraordinary nurse of enchantment' : Scottish/San Francisco poet, collagist and photographer Helen Adam, BOTD in 1909. The world of her ballads and collages is a dark phantasmagoria of hidden desires and fears @BoutsofHysteria #womensart @F_yeah_history

'If they kill me . . . I'll reach out my arms out through my tomb & I'll be even stronger' Minerva Mirabal, 1 of 3 sisters assassinated OTD in 1960 for opposing Trujillo's dictatorship in Dominican Republic. UN nominated today #IDEVAW in their honour @WEP_UK @deadladiesshow