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Ellen Church was the first female flight attendant in America; she suggested the idea of female nurses on board to Boeing Air Transport, claiming that if people felt safer they would fly more. [86] 1931 Jane Addams was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize; she shared the prize with Nicholas Murray Butler. [87] [88] 1932
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:18th-century American people. It includes American people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. See also: Category:18th-century American men
1837: The first American convention held to advocate women's rights was the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women held in 1837. [4] [5] 1837: Oberlin College becomes the first American college to admit women. 1840: The first petition for a law granting married women the right to own property was established in 1840. [6]
Corazon Aquino. Corazon Aquino was President of the Philippines from 1986-1992 under some extraordinary circumstances.She was a Senator's wife and became a political leader in the People Power ...
The first English people to arrive in America were the members of the Roanoke Colony who came to North Carolina in July 1587, with 17 women, 91 men, and 9 boys as the founding colonists. On August 18, 1587, Virginia Dare was born in the colony; she was the first English child born in the territory of the United States.
Early American proponent of female equality and author of On the Equality of the Sexes [40] 1700–1799: John Neal: United States: 1793: 1876: Writer, critic, and first American women's rights lecturer [41] [42] 1700–1799: Sarah Ponsonby: Ireland: 1755: 1831: One of the Ladies of Llangollen [28] 1700–1799: Mary Shelley: United Kingdom: 1797 ...
Woman's Record: Or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women, from" the Beginning" Till AD 1850. Arranged in Four Eras. With Selections from Female Writers of Every Age (Harper & brothers, 1876) online; Kirkpatrick, Melanie (2021). Lady Editor: Sarah Josepha Hale and the Making of the Modern American Woman. Encounter Books. ISBN 978-1641771788.
Ann Eliza Bleecker (1752–1783), American poet and correspondent; Martha Wadsworth Brewster (1710 – c. 1757), American poet and writer; first American-born woman to publish in own name; Magdalene Sophie Buchholm (1758–1825), Norwegian poet; Anna Bunina (1774–1829), Russian poet; Sophia Burrell (1753–1802), English poet and dramatist