Women's History

First 'I've been ignored all my life': Britain's first black female Olympian Anita Neil tells her story (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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First Meet LegoLand Boston's Master Builder - The Only Female Master Builder in America - News - Baystate Parent - Worcester, MA (www.baystateparent.com)

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First Homemaker to undertaker: Canada’s first female mortician (www.thewhig.com)

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First Remembering Miss Fury – the world's first great superheroine (www.bbc.com)

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

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

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

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

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First Meet the Woman Who Trekked a 1,200-Mile Ice Age Trail in the Dead of Winter - Atlas Obscura (www.atlasobscura.com)

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First Before Vaccines, Variolation Was Seriously Trendy | 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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First The woman who discovered global warming — in 1856! - David Suzuki Foundation (davidsuzuki.org)

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

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

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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 211 Years Later, The First Woman To Earn A Patent Continues To Shape Easter Celebrations (www.forbes.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 Rainbow for their Guide”: Mary Gartside’s New Theory of Colours (1808) (publicdomainreview.org)

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

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

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First Hidden women of history: Hélisenne de Crenne, the first French novelist to tell her own story (theconversation.com)

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