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Literature and Writing Calling all historians! Please help me preserve this little piece of 19th century women's history (Rosina Bulwer Lytton)

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Literature and Writing Meet Mary Astell, England's "First Feminist" Who Challenged John Locke (allthatsinteresting.com)

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Literature and Writing First wave feminists against the prostitution of women and children? Trying to find resources!

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Literature and Writing The World of Adrienne Rich - Dissent Magazine (www.dissentmagazine.org)

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Literature and Writing Daphne du Maurier (13 May 1907 - 19 April 1989) (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Literature and Writing Trina Robbins, Creator and Historian of Comic Books, Dies at 85 - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)

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Literature and Writing John Shakespeare’s “Spiritual Testament” Is Not John Shakespeare’s | Shakespeare Quarterly | Oxford Academic (academic.oup.com)

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Literature and Writing How Medieval Women Expressed Their 'Forbidden' Emotions (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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Literature and Writing Writer, Woman, Playwright, Spy: How Espionage Influenced Aphra Behn’s Writing ‹ Literary Hub (lithub.com)

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Literature and Writing Instead of remarrying, in 1389 a 25 year old young widow became the first woman in medieval France to make a living as a writer (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Literature and Writing Women’s sex lives were a mystery to men. Then along came Shere Hite | Yvonne Roberts | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

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Literature and Writing Fierce, Fearless and Fun: How Maggie Higgins Broke New Ground For Women in Journalism (lithub.com)

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Literature and Writing Alice Elizabeth Kober the woman whose work helped decipher the long lost Ancient Greek Writing System Linear B!

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Literature and Writing Vale Dr Dale Spender AM: Brisbane’s brilliantly controversial writer, teacher, feminist [Obituary] (archive.md)

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Literature and Writing How Balzac created the myth of the spinster (theconversation.com)

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Literature and Writing Women's writing began much earlier than supposed, finds academic (www.theguardian.com)

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Literature and Writing Margaret Cavendish: meet the mother of science fiction (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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Literature and Writing The Only Woman on the Beach at Normandy (news.wgcu.org)

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Literature and Writing The Alexiad by Anna Comnena (digitalcommons.lasalle.edu)

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Literature and Writing How to be a Classical scholar – and a woman – in the fifteenth century – Antigone (antigonejournal.com)

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Literature and Writing SFE: Hamilton, Cicely (sf-encyclopedia.com)

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Literature and Writing Rediscovering Pearl Buck, America’s Chinese Writer | Literary Tourism - Asia (jamesweitz.com)

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Literature and Writing Out of John Locke’s shadow: Damaris Masham and her philosophy | Aeon Essays (aeon.co)

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Literature and Writing The Enchanting Ann Radcliffe | WPHP (womensprinthistoryproject.com)

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Literature and Writing Her Left Hand, The Darkness | Alison Smith | Granta (granta.com)

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