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Jessica Garretson Finch. Brand new article: Suffragette. Founded Finch College. There is an irony in that she wanted to educate women for careers, but Finch turned into a finishing school for debutantes. I think the citation on her honorary doctorate from NYU is a hoot (so condescending). So, if someone understands the DKY process... Or would look at it - I'm no expert on Women's History. Thanks.E.M.Gregory (talk) 10:43, 20 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
List approved Women's History DYKs here for inclusion in our Portal some day.
... that Lilian Helen Alexander was one of the first five women to study medicine at the University of Melbourne and the first female student admitted to an Australian residential college?" (appeared 30 May 2014)
... that the pioneering series of self-portraits by Bauhaus artist Gertrud Arndt have been described as "ranging from severe to absurd to playful"?" (19 March 2013)
... that Amie MacRuari was divorced by the first Lord of the Isles despite giving him no grounds for doing so? (appeared 4 May 2011)
... that Chen Yumei (pictured) retired from acting soon after being crowned the "Movie Queen"?" (appeared 8 March 2014)
... that a US-born ex-hippieMalati Dasi, despite fierce opposition, in 1998 became the first international female leader of the Hare Krishna movement? (appeared 8 March 2011)
... that Jane Dieulafoy(pictured) received special permission from the French government to wear men's clothing in public? (appeared 13 September 2011)
... that Nelle Richmond Eberhart wrote the first opera commissioned for American radio? (appeared 30 July 2013)
... that Anastasia Gosteva's fantastic tale Большой взрыв и черепахи (2006), translated by Boris Meshcheryakov as Big Bang and Turtles, has been published by UNESCO online? (1 March 2015)
... that Ellen Hayes was not only a rare 19th-century female mathematics professor but was also the first woman to run for statewide office in Massachusetts? (appeared 15 Feb. 2011)
... that Mary Wigman said that Dore Hoyer was "Europe's last great modern dancer"?" (appeared 18 March 2014)
... that 19th-century female climber Jeanne Immink once wrote, "I challenge the male mountaineers to follow in my steps"?" (appeared 20 April 2014)
... that Mount Jobe in Canada was renamed in honor of Mary Jobe Akeley to acknowledge her exploration efforts in the Rocky Mountains? (appeared 9 Feb. 2011)
... that literature theoretician Paulina Lebl-Albala was co-founder and president of the Yugoslav Association of University-Educated Women? (appeared 15 March 2014)
... that Erna Lendvai-Dircksen produced heroic photographs of autobahn construction workers under the Nazis on a commission from Fritz Todt? (appeared 20 May 2012)
... that from 1859 to 1931, the Lucy Cobb InstituteinAthens, Georgia, taught "orthodox southern moral and racial values" to young Southern women? (appeared 18 Feb. 2011)
... that in her quest to find a cure for leprosy, nurse Kate Marsden travelled some 11,000 miles (18,000 km) across Russia? (appeared 20 March 2014)
... that the autobiography of Renaissance medical practitioner Grace Mildmay is one of the earliest written by an English woman? (appeared 8 March 2011)
... that Anna Murray(pictured) helped her future husband, Frederick Douglass, escape slavery by giving him sailor's clothes and a part of her savings? (appeared 8 March 2011)
... that, after losing a child, journalist and author Mrs. C. S. Peel abandoned writing to sell hats, but started up again after ill health forced her to close her shop? (appeared 13 March 2014)
... that pathologist Frieda Robscheit-Robbins did not share her male research partner's 1934 Nobel Prize, but he shared the prize money with her? (appeared 19 March 2014)
... that Lola Sanchez was a spy during the American Civil War who provided information to the Confederate Army, which led them to a victory over the Union Forces in the "Battle of Horse Landing"? (5 June 2011)
... that sopranoCesira Ferrani originated two of the most iconic roles in opera history, Mimì %28pictured%29 in the world premiere of Puccini's La bohème and the title role in the premiere of Puccini's Manon Lescaut appeared 2 November 2008)
... that an Edinburgh judge and Member of Parliament had his wife, Lady Grange, kidnapped and effectively imprisoned for 13 years in remote parts of western Scotland? (appeared 24 May 2010)
... that Jane Edna Hunter, an African American social worker in Cleveland, Ohio, was born on the Woodburn Plantation in Pendleton, South Carolina?" (appeared 15 May 2009)
...that American feminist author and journalist Inez Haynes Irwin estimated that between 500,000 and 750,000 women were killed in World War I? (appeared 10 September 2010)
...that Margaret Roper, daughter of Thomas More, purchased his head after his execution and preserved it in spices until her own death? (appeared 10 August 2005)
... that Indian women's activist Moturu Udayam is said to have been the first woman to ride a bicycle in the state of Andhra Pradesh? (appeared 28 June 2009)
...that UkrainianwriterLesya Ukrainka learned to read at the age of four and was able to read nine languages in addition to her native Ukrainian? (appeared 22 December 2004)
