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Adelia Sarah Gates (October 24, 1825 - September 21, 1912) was an American illustrator of botanical specimens. [1] [2] After several years working as an elementary schoolteacher and amateur decorative painter and watercolorist, she began to expand into scientific illustration, especially of plants and flowers. She traveled, collecting and ...
The New Woman was to be a politically, socially and economically independent woman. The Freewoman did not reject the domestic life that most women during the twentieth century lived, but rather used the domestic life of a woman as a tool to show women that they could take an active role in protecting their interests.
Ellen Pitfield (c. 1857 – August 1912) was a British midwife, nurse, suffragette and member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). Life Pitfield joined the suffragette movement in 1908 and became involved with militant action for women’s enfranchisement. This caused her to get arrested twice throughout that same year. Pitfield went on hunger strike whilst in prison. After being ...
She developed an idea which would benefit the funds of London hospitals through the sale of artificial wild roses, which were to be made by young women and girls with disabilities at the John Groom Industrial Training Home. The day was to be called "Alexandra Rose Day". The first event raised £32,000, equivalent to £4,001,853 in 2023.
Katie Gliddon was the model for In an Alcove (1902) by her relative and fellow-suffragette Helen Margaret Spanton. Gliddon was born in Twickenham in Middlesex in 1883, the daughter of Margaret Martha née Lelean (1860–1941) and Aurelius James Louis Gliddon (1857–1929), a minister for the United Reformed Church (1882–84) and a homeopathist. [1]
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