The Monstrous Regiment of Women

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Showing posts with label women and business. Show all posts

Monday, October 8, 2018

Mary Beale and the Business of Painting

Mary Craddock Beale (died 8 October 1699) Although the date of her birth is not recorded, Mary Craddock was baptized on 26 March 1633 b...

Thursday, November 10, 2016

A Black British Nurse in the Crimea--and Twenty-First Century Outrage

Mary Grant Seacole, a "Pioneer Nurse" (1805-1881, married 10 November 1836) On 30 June of this year (2016), after a twelve-ye...

Sunday, April 3, 2016

Sybilla Masters, American Inventor

Sybilla Righton Masters (died 23 August 1720) I just ran across a reference to the colonial woman Sybilla Righton Masters, an inventor...

Friday, November 13, 2015

Elizabeth Keckley, "Thirty Years a Slave"

Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (manumission from slavery, 13 November 1855) Born as a slave in Virginia some time between 1818 and 1824, Eliza...

Monday, June 22, 2015

Lucrezia Tornabuoni: Business Woman, Political Adviser, Poet

Lucrezia Tornabuoni Medici (born 22 June 1425) Lucrezia Tornabuoni, c. 1475, portrait by Domenico Ghirlandaio A member of one infl...

Monday, May 25, 2015

Madam C. J. Walker, American Entrepreneur

Sarah Breedlove, "Madam C. J. Walker" (died 25 May 1919) Born in Louisiana on 23 December 1867, Sarah Breedlove was the first ...

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