Women's History

First Lisa Lane might have been the inspiration for Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit: A former chess phenom who died in February, age 90. (slate.com)

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First The little-known story of Australia’s convict women - Australian Geographic #WomensHistoryMonfh (www.australiangeographic.com.au)

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First Sailor Cole Brauer makes history as the first American woman to race solo around the world (www.nbcnews.com)

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First BBC Witness History podcast: The first lesbian couple to marry (www.bbc.co.uk)

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First Black Mermaid: ‘I was always the only black person on the boat’

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First Jane Anger, Her Protection for Women (1589) (digital.library.upenn.edu)

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First Franca Viola: The First Italian Woman Who Publicly Refused Marrying Her Rapist (medium.com)

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First These highly trained scientists and doctors were making history. Reporters kept asking them sexist questions (www.cnn.com)

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First Meet the American who unlocked the science of gender, Nettie Stevens, female research pioneer | Fox News (www.foxnews.com)

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First Queen Camilla first ever divorced woman to be crowned?

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First The forgotten history of America’s first public women’s prison in Indiana (19thnews.org)

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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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