Women and Adversity
WOMEN AND ADVERSITY: BREAK DOWN THE BARRIERS
June 14, 2018I featured Rula Jebreal and her background on this blog in August 2016 (link: https://wp.me/p4szxH-yQ) after reading her semi-autobiographical novel Miral ...
Women and Adversity: Beverly Sills, Opera Singer
May 24, 2018Although Beverly Sills attained world-wide fame for her phenomenal singing ability as a coloratura soprano and opera singer, the tragic part of her life is that her two children had disabilities. ...
Women and Adversity: Louisa May Alcott, Author
May 10, 2018Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel, Little Women, The story of the four March sisters, which she based on her own family, is close to my heart because I have two sisters. My mother had four sis ...
Women and Adversity: Dena and Rebecca Lindgren Fictional sisters in Outside the Limelight, Book 2 in the Ballet Theatre Chronicles series By Terez Mertes Rose
April 12, 2018Somehow this book got into my Kindle, and I couldn’t ignore it. Tutu, plié and barre are about the only ballet terms I knew until I read Outside the Limelight, but this novel’s message ...
MARCH: WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH Women and Adversity: Zora Neale Hurston Anthropologist, Author, Civil Rights Activist
March 22, 2018Crossword puzzle enthusiasts will recognize the name Zora Neale Hurston, although they may not know what her accomplishments are or why she’s to be remembered. She is another example of a wo ...
MARCH: WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH Women and Adversity: Harriet Tubman Famous “Conductor” on Underground Railroad
March 8, 2018Harriet Tubman led hundreds of slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad, that complex system of safe houses to the north. Believing she was to be sold, she escaped slavery in 1849 and cam ...
Women and Adversity: Jane Stanford Co-founder, Stanford University
February 22, 2018Jane Lathrop Stanford experienced heartbreak and tragedy during her lifetime and had a tragic death. Born Jane Elizabeth Lathrop in 1828 in Albany, NY, she received an education, part of whic ...
Women and Adversity: Susan B. Anthony, Suffragist
February 8, 2018In 1874 Susan Brownell Anthony asked the House Judiciary Committee to annul the $100 fine she received for voting in the 1872 presidential election. It was against the law for women to vote then ...
Women and Adversity: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Women’s Activist, Suffragist, Abolitionist
January 25, 2018No Women and Adversity blog post would be complete without one on Elizabeth Cady Stanton, an ally of Lucretia Mott. The two met at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840, where both ...
Women and Adversity: Lucretia Mott Women’s Activist, Abolitionist
January 15, 2018In the second decade of the 21st century on the heels of the 2017 “Me Too” movement, women must be reminded that a host of women activists came before us. One of the earliest in America was ...