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Fannie Eleanor Williams 12/10 (DYK that
Fannie Eleanor Williams created blood storage techniques used in the first Australian blood bank?)
Vine Colby 6/10 (DYK that a 1912 party hosted by
Vine Colby made the news for its originality?)
Bernice C. Downing 5/10 (DYK that twin sisters Bertha and
Bernice C. Downing became owners and publishers of the Santa Clara Journal when they were 17 years old?)
Cynthia Clarey 4/10 (DYK hat when operatic soprano Cynthia Clarey's voice lowered with age, she took up cabaret singing instead?)
Orfa Jean Shontz 4/10 (DYK that Judge
Orfa Jean Shontz created an all female
juvenile court with a homelike setting?)
Mab Copland Lineman 3/10 (DYK that the lack of breakfast pushed
Mab Copland Lineman to fight against a
labor union ?)
Jane Frances Winn 02/10 (DYK that
Jane Frances Winn was one of the first female journalists to cover women's
golf events?)
Caroline B. Winslow 01/10 (DYK that
Caroline B. Winslow opened the Homeopathic Free Dispensary, the first facility in
Washington, D.C. where women doctors could practice side-by-side with their male colleagues?)
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Aeta Lamb Suffragette 1911
Suffragette Gladice Keevil
Suffragette Edith Gray Wheelwright
Suffragettes Edith Wheelwright and Lilias Ashworth Hallett
Cedrus Deodara 1911 by Emmeline Pankhurst
Suffragette
Elsie Howey 1909.
Suffragette
Jessie Kenney 1909.
Suffragettes Lady
Constance Lytton and
Annie Kenney 1910
Millicent Browne planting tree with Mary Phillips, Vera Wentworth, Elsie Howey and Annie K
Sevasti Qiriazi , Albanian educator, w husband
Christo Dako
Dora Ohlfsen-Bagge , Australian artist in Italy, she is buried with her companion Russian Baroness Hélène de Kuegelgen
1 of 2 known pix of
Ada Lovelace
Isabel Bowen Heyward , patron of arts, prob. suicide when companion left her
Isabel Bateman , American actress, manager of Lyceum Theatre, who became a nun
Irma Theoda Jones , pioneer resident of Lansing, Michigan
Irene Williams Coit , 1st woman passing the Yale College entrance exam
Irene Welch Grissom , 1923 poet laureate of Idaho
Winifred M. Hausam , one of the most creative educators in S. California
Wilma Frances Minor , involved in "one of the most notorious journalistic forgeries ..."
Zed Eye , Nigerian fashion designer
Helen Zughaib US artist from Lebanon
Virginia Sarpy Peugnet , one of the original grand dames of St. Louis, Missouri
Teresita Sandoval , among the founders of Pueblo, Colorado
for
Virginia Donaghe McClurg , The Mesa Verde National Park has been called the "Women's Park"
Virginia Cleaver Bacon , Oregon State Librarian
Virgie McFarland , top left, established 1st Aberdeen Women's Exchange
Primrose Rupp Hinton , society editor for the Aberdeen Daily World
Harriet Calista Clark McCabe , wrote the constitution of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Susan Bowen Jordan, wife of Stanford 1st president
David Starr Jordan , & mother of
Edith Jordan Gardner
Caroline Haven Ober , founded the Department of Romance Languages at Washington Uni
Violet Richardson Ward , introduced physical education into Berkeley schools
Sara Groenevelt , writer and musician
Rebecca N. Hazard , president of the American Woman's Suffrage Association (1826)
Gerhard Sisters , among the first women commercial photographers
Fanny J. Bayrhoffer Thelen , San Diego County Woman's Board of the State and National Defense
Caroline Elizabeth Newcomb , pioneer squatter with Anne Drysdale, from whom Drysdale, Victoria, is named.
Bernice Orpha Redington , home economics expert and journalist
Eva Frederica French LeFevre , lawyer, one of the first pioneers of Denver
Idora M. Plowman , American author, "one of the first Alabama writers to recognize the pecuniary aspects of local-color writing."
Geraldine Fenn , founded the Montanans for Children, Youth and Families and framed the 1972 Montana State Constitution setting forth rights for children
Fanny G. Hazlett , one of the oldest pioneer women of Nevada
Eda Hurd Lord , Victorian real estate businesswoman
New or upgraded articles: November 2017
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Mechthild Georg - 27 November
Fatma Hikmet İşmen - 15 November
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New or upgraded articles: December 2017
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Rena Mason TW
Veronica Schanoes TW
Isabel Grimes Richey TW
Margaret Bright Lucas - upg, plus 2 imgs
Ann Elizabeth Isham TW
Alice Lee (civic leader) TW
Lurana W. Sheldon TW
Laura H. Carnell - upg, just added image
Johnnie Phelps (my 400th article for WiR!
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Helen Francis Hood - upg, just added image
Elizabeth Curnow (QC) TW
Anna Cotton
Anne Docwra
Else Züblin-Spiller TW
Adela de Torrebiarte TW
Nina Christesen
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Ernestina Cravello
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Helen Herrman
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Gisela Kaplan
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Catharine Lumby
TW
Catherine Fox (journalist)
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Helen Trinca
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Giselle Tavera
TW
Mrs Willie James née Evelyn Elizabeth Forbes - upg, added image
TW
Grace Gallatin Seton Thompson - upg, added image
Kym Ragusa
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Amy Busby TW
Myra Belle Martin TW
Adele Starr
Antoinette Hendrika Nijhoff-Wind
Noël Haskins Murphy
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Eva Carrington - upg, just added image
Myra Kelly - upg, just added image
Demetra Kenneth Brown - upg, just added image
Mary Meriam
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Helen Lowell - upg, inc image
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Marie Bonfanti - upg, just added image
Hope Booth - upg, added image, ref
Angelica Fraser TW
Alice Mary Coleridge TW
Amy Wright (activist)
Cynthia Eloise Cleveland TW
Emma Churchman Hewitt TW
Lillie Devereux Blake - upg
Emily Wakeman Hartley TW
Meri Toppelius TW
Annie Adams - upg and image
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Hilda Keenan TW
We Said Enough
Euphemia Wilson Pitblado TW
Abortion Rights (organisation) upgrade TW
Alice Jenkins TE
Elina Berglund
Elizabeth Brice (performer) - upg, just added image
Maude Eburne - upg, added image, ref, quote
Sweet Hope
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Maialen Lujanbio
TW
Ella Holmes White
Lola May - upgrade including image
TW
Dodici Azpadu
TW
Eva Kotchever TW
Alice Locke Park
Nellie Showalter
TW
Helena Stjernholm
Anne Asquith
Hiranya Peiris TW, PIN
Kemiyondo Coutinho TW, PIN
Alice Ann Cornwell TW, PIN
Nicola Tiggeler
Aunt Priscilla
TW
Bayonne Whipple - PIN, TW
Mary Bucci Bush
TW
Anna Laughlin - PIN, TW
Nellie Peters Black - upg, just added image
TW , PIN
Emily Verdery Battey - upg, just added image, PIN
Ramize Erer
Lucy Drexel Dahlgren House - upg, just added image, PIN
Mary Jeune, Baroness St Helier - upg, just added image, PIN
Amelia Summerville - upg, just added image, PIN
Mathilde Bauermeister - upg, just added image
Teddy Getty Gaston
Antoinette Hale
Martha Alf
Mary Agnes Snively - upgraded with image
Alpha Phi - upg, just added image
Ayla Kalkandelen
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Dita Hopkins Kinney TW
Laura Ainsworth TW
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