Women’s History Month

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March is Women’s History Month. So here are a few fabulous ladies from history to celebrate.

Harriet Tubman was an American hero, a powerful abolitionist & activist.
Harriet Tubman was an American hero, a powerful abolitionist & activist.
Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer and poet.
Louisa May Alcott was an American novelist, short story writer and poet.
Sojourner Truth was a powerful abolitionist and women's rights activist.
Sojourner Truth was an American hero, abolitionist and activist.
Jane Austen was an English novelist known for her charming romantic novels. The plots explored the dependence of women on marriage which provided social standing and economic security in England at the end of the 18th century.
Jane Austen was an English writer known for her charming romantic novels.
Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the wealthiest & most powerful women in Europe during the Middle Ages
Emily Bronte, English Romantic era novelist and poet.
Emily Bronte was the English novelist who wrote Wuthering Heights.
Clara Schumann is one of the greatest German, Romantic era musicians and composers.
Clara Schumann is one of the greatest German, Romantic era musicians and composers.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English writer born in 1797. While staying at Lord Byron's home in Switzerland with Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley she was inspired to write Frankenstein during a storm
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was the English writer who wrote Frankenstein .
George Sand Amantin Lucile Aurore Dupin, pseudonym George Sand, French novelist, memoirist. She had close relationships with Frederic Chopin and the writer Alfred de Musset.
George Sand was a French novelist and memoirist.
Artemisia Gentileschi was an Italian painter, one of the finest in the post Caravaggio era. She was the first female member of a Florence artistic academy and had an international clientele. Her paintings showed strong woman.
Artemisia Gentileschi was one of Italian painters in the post Caravaggio era.
Emily Dickinson was a revered American poet (1830-1886)
Emily Dickinson was a revered American poet.
George Eliot, born Mary Ann Evans; (1819-1880) was a beloved English novelist, poet, journalist, translator. She was a Victorian era leading writer.
George Eliot was a beloved English novelist, poet, journalist and translator.

All these wonderful women are available on Amazon as T-shirts.

These women made the world we live in today richer and more beautiful. They are often under represented in our history.

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Kathleen is a digital & watercolor artist, a graphic designer, and an amateur historian.

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