Women's History

First Pioneers: Louisa Martindale (1872-1966) FRCOG 1933 – Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Heritage Blog (rcogheritage.wordpress.com)

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First Enheduanna: The world's first named author - BBC Culture (www.bbc.com)

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First How Masako Katsura Became The 'First Lady Of Billiards' (allthatsinteresting.com)

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First The lesbian first lady of the USA! (www.washingtonpost.com)

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First Frances Gertrude McGill | The Canadian Encyclopedia (www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)

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First Woman of Firsts: Marie Clark Taylor (www.womeninhorticulture.com)

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First Rosemary Radford Ruether, a founding mother of feminist theology, dies at age 85 (www.npr.org)

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First “The Rainbow for their Guide”: Mary Gartside’s New Theory of Colours (1808) (publicdomainreview.org)

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First Women’s suffrage | National Museum of Australia (www.nma.gov.au)

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First The trials and triumphs of a trailblazing scientist - Museums Victoria (museumsvictoria.com.au)

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First Alexis 'Scrappy' Hopkins drafted by Atlantic League team (www.mlb.com)

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First Edith Cowan | National Museum of Australia (www.nma.gov.au)

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First Janet Sobel: The woman written out of history - BBC Culture (www.bbc.com)

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First How Ethel Smyth's March of The Women became the anthem of women’s suffrage - Classical Music (www.classical-music.com)

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First Overlooked No More: Julia Tuttle, the ‘Mother of Miami’ - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)

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First Luisa Moreno, (1907-1992), Labor Organizer (americacomesalive.com)

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First Madam CJ Walker, Self-Made Millionaire - HISTORY (www.history.com)

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First The first woman to earn an academic degree

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First Two botanists: Norma Etta Pfeiffer & Alice Eastwood (www.sciencenews.org)

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First Famous Female Firsts: Aretha Franklin and 57 Trailblazing Women Who Made History (www.rd.com)

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First The Tale of Genji: The world’s first novel? (www.bbc.com)

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First Before Vaccines, Variolation Was Seriously Trendy | JSTOR Daily (daily.jstor.org)

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First Odin's wife: Mother Earth in Germanic Mythology

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First The Feminist History of “Child Allowances” | JSTOR Daily (daily.jstor.org)

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First Caterina van Hemessen: An unknown visual pioneer - BBC Culture (www.bbc.com)

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