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The population of women increased by two thirds between 1890 and 1920 and the literacy rate jumped to 94% in 1920. Both of these demographic shifts increased the audience for women's magazines. The most popular women's magazine, Ladies' Home Journal, had 25,000 readers by the end of its first year. The reach of these women's magazines meant ...
Paula Modersohn-Becker begins a series of nude portraits of herself and of other women and children in Paris. Juan Gris, Amedeo Modigliani and Gino Severini all arrive in Paris. Walter Sickert paints music hall scenes in London and Paris. Ferdinand Preiss opens his workshop in Berlin. Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest) completed.
Ethel Weed, promoter of women's rights in Japan (died 1975) Richard Arvin Overton, American war veteran (WWII) ( died 2018) May 12 – Maurice Ewing, geophysicist and oceanographer (died 1974) May 19 – Bruce Bennett, athlete and actor (died 2007) [4] May 23 – Allan Scott, screenwriter (died 1995) May 28 – Phil Regan, actor (died 1996)
This famine was directly caused by the 1906 China floods (April–October 1906), which hit the Huai River particularly hard and destroyed both the summer and autumn harvest. The 1908 Messina earthquake caused 75,000–82,000 deaths. First-wave feminism made advances, with universities being opened for women in Japan, Bulgaria, Cuba, Russia, and ...
Grace Mae Brown (March 20, 1886 – July 11, 1906) [1] was an American woman who was murdered by her boyfriend, Chester Gillette, on Big Moose Lake, New York, after she told him she was pregnant. [2] The murder, and the subsequent trial of the suspect, attracted national newspaper attention.
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Not from the actual human body, of course, but from the anatomical diagrams that purported to represent it. Goss was the esteemed editor of the 25th edition of the seminal classic Gray’s Anatomy . Internationally lauded as the authority on all things anatomical, Gray’s Anatomy had been considered essential for any would-be physician to own ...
From 1903 to 1908, Stieglitz exhibited Brigman's photos many times, and her photos were printed in three issues of Stieglitz's journal Camera Work. During this same period, she often exhibited and corresponded under the name “Annie Brigman,” but in 1911, she dropped the “i” and was known from then on as “Anne.”