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Showing posts with label women and education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women and education. Show all posts
Friday, July 5, 2019

Francisca de Nebrija, Humanist and Academic

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Francisca de Nebrija/Lebrija (5 July) Francisca de Nebrija was the daughter of the humanist scholar Antonio de Nebrija and Doña Isabel...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

Mary Jones and the Great Library War of Los Angeles

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Mary Letitia Jones (born 29 June 1865) Born on 29 June 1865, Mary Letitia Jones was the daughter of a minister, William R. Jones, and ...
Friday, October 26, 2018

Olympia Morata, Scholar, Teacher, and an "Italian Heretic"

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Olympia Fulvia Morata (died 26 October 1555) Olympia Fulvia Morata was the daughter of the Italian humanist Fulvio Pellegrino Morato . ...
Thursday, September 6, 2018

Frances Wright, Abolitionist and Reformer

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Frances Wright, Social Reformer, Writer, and Lecturer (born 6 September 1795) Frances Wright was born in Dundee, Scotland, the daughter...
Thursday, August 9, 2018

Luisa de Medrano, the First Female Professor?

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Luisa de Medrano (born 9? August 1484) Born in Atienza (Guadalajara), Spain, some time in August 1484--on 9 August, according to some so...
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Thursday, November 2, 2017

Oh, Yay! More Great News for Women! 2017 Edition!

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The World Economic Forum's 2017 Global Gender Gap Report The World Economic Forum has just published its annual Global Gender Gap R...
Saturday, October 29, 2016

More Really Great News on the Gender Pay Gap--This Time on a Global Scale

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The World Economic Forum's 2016 Global Gender Gap Report The World Economic Forum has just published its eleventh annual Global Gen...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Annabella Milbanke Was Not Crazy!

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Annabella Milbanke, Lady Byron (17 May 1792-16 May 1860) I've written before about the seminar in the British Romantics I was enrol...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015

Beatriz Galindo, "La Latina"

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Beatriz Galindo, scholar and tutor (birth of her pupil Catherine of Aragon, 16 December 1485) Today is the anniversary of the birth of C...
Sunday, November 29, 2015

Dhuoda of Uzès: Writing to Save Her Life?

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Dhuoda of Uzès (son William born 29 November 826) Almost everything we know about the ninth-century Frankish noblewoman now known as Dh...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Mary Astell and the Early Modern Debate about Women

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Mary Astell (born 12 November 1666) Mary Astell seems, at first glance, an unlikely participant in the noisy, contentious, and very publ...