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Suffragette & writer May Sinclair wrote of Anne Bronte's The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall that 'the slamming of Helen's bedroom door against her husband reverberated throughout Victorian England' #InternationalWomensDay
#HappyBirthday, #ElizabethBarrettBrowning -- feminist, campaigner for better education, reforms to child labour law, Italian independence and the abolition of slavery…and also one of the greatest Victorian poets! ✍️📚
@UWEBristol @UWELibrary #WomensHistoryMonth #FridayThoughts
Portrait of the Artist Painting a Portrait of her Father @state_hermitage
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Baroque painter and printmaker Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665) was one of Bologna's most innovative and influential artists, especially on the women artists of the city. #WomensHistoryMonth
Did you love A Boy Like You by @frankmurphy2009? Be sure to follow @hereweeread on Instagram this Sunday #InternationalWomensDay for the official cover reveal for A Girl Like You, releasing this July! #PictureBook #2020KidLit #sneakpeek https://t.co/eNaWColoRS
Day 5: BLACK CANARY! Dinah Lance was born into a family of crime fighters, her mother was also a vigilante. Dinah is a master in martial arts and possesses the ultrasonic “Canary Cry”. Played by @MzKatieCassidy IN THE Arrowverse and @jurneesmollett for #BOP. #WomensHistoryMonth
Lot 322 'Orange/Black/Blaze (after Cranach 2)' by Virginia Verran
This artwork has been generously donated to our #ArtonaPostcard auction for #InternationalWomensDay to raise money for @HepatitisCTrust - Still just £50!
BID NOW – https://t.co/eMrKQkhFZW
#AOAP #IWD2020
I made this illustration for #InternationalWomensDay2020 but I feel like now is a good time to post it 🧡
Today we are celebrating Marie Tharp, who made the first comprehensive map of the ocean floor. 🌊🌎🗺 #WomensHistoryMonth #BornCurious @mafreeman225 @thewildkat
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Here is my OTHER womens day tee for @bdunkelman... "Flamous last birds"https://t.co/Oa6USZwspc
#WomensHistoryMonth Sophie Blanchard is largely forgotten even though she became the first ever female pilot in history.
Learn more about her in Lighter Than Air by Matthew Clark Smith and illustrated by Matt Tavares
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Hello, #FolkloreThursday! A huge thanks to @MythCrafts who hosted before the break. This is Crystal of @HistoriumU and I’ll be with you for the next 90 minutes to celebrate the folklore of women. Tweet some girl power now! (Image: PubDom) #FolkloreThursday #InternationalWomensDay
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#Women in Folklore for #InternationalWomensDay
Kodama are female spirits in Japanese folklore that inhabit trees, similar to the dryads of Greek mythology. They occasionally speak, and can especially be heard when a person dies.
In Celtic lore, the Queen of the Fairies is represented as beautiful & seductive, but also terrible & deadly Paying a tithe to Hell every 7years, with her mortal lovers as the sacrifice. Even though she may show kindness, she is quick to seek revenge! #FolkloreThursday #WomensDay
In Greek mythology, Terpsichore is one of the nine Muses and goddess of dance. Here is a classic image and images of women she has inspired...
#Ballet
#Dance
#MarthaGraham
#FolkloreThursday for #InternationalWomensDay
Images from Pinterest
Sláinte chuig na fir & go mairfidh na mná go deo
Health to the men & may the women live forever! #InternationalWomensDay Pic1 #Connemara Women by Harry Furniss. Illustrated London News, 31 Jan 1880, p. 116 & Pic2 Clifton R. Adams NatGeographic 1927 #FolkloreThursday #SnaG20
Narset, Enlightened Master (and bonus sketch) for #MTGSecretLair 💕 #InternationalWomensDay
#MTG #mtgart #narset
“The Romans and Greeks used to call her a Dryad; but we don’t understand that: out in the sailors’ quarter we have a better name for her; there she’s called Elder Tree Mother...' A tale from Hans Christian Andersen #FolkloreThursday #InternationalWomensDay https://t.co/X1YGHycMdi
In #Norse #mythology, a valkyrie from Old Norse valkyrja "chooser of the slain") is one of a host of female figures who choose those who may die in battle and those who may live.
Here are some beautiful images from Pinterest:
#FolkloreThursday for #InternationalWomensDay
Time to sow herbs:
“In March & in April from morning to night
In sowing & setting good housewives delight,
To have in a garden or other like plot
To physic their house, or to furnish their pot.”
(Good husbandry 1753,🎨Waterhouse)
#FolkloreThursday #InternationalWomensDay #herbs
A favourite poet's simple lines for children:
‘Bread and milk for breakfast,
And woollen frocks to wear,
And a crumb for robin redbreast,
On the cold days of the year.’
(🖊️Christina Rossetti 🎨 Walter Crane) #InternationalWomensDay #FolkloreThursday