Francesca Caccini (1587-1646): The First Woman to Compose an Opera
(The featured image above is from the 2018 performance of Caccini’s La Liberazioine at the...
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May Sarton: Leaping the Waterfalls (1912-1995 American Woman Writer)
Spending summer 2021 in New Hampshire, I drive through Nelson quite often these days. Each time I...
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Hannah Davis: Early Woman Entrepreneur Extraordinaire
On an excursion to visit novelist Willa Cather’s gravesite in Jaffrey, New Hampshire last month,...
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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women – And Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura (2021)
On January 23, 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell was awarded a medical degree. She was the first woman in...
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Willa Cather’s My Ántonia: An Unusually Beautiful Read
I thoroughly enjoyed my recent reading of Willa Cather’s 1918 novel My Ántonia. There is something...
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Happy 100th Birthday to Betty Friedan!
On February 4, 2021, Betty Friedan would have turned 100 years old. Although she passed away 15...
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Justice Ginsburg Day: Honoring the ‘Judicial Giant’
Monday, March 15 would have been Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s 88th birthday....
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Sovereign Self by Acharya Shunya (2020)
After listening to Acharya Shunya discuss her latest book Sovereign Self: Claim Your Inner Joy and...
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Carol Ruckdeschel: “Tireless defender of sea turtles” (American Woman Writer and Researcher b. 1941)
I happened to catch a January 13, 2021 For the Wild podcast titled Carol Ruckdeschel on Keeping...
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