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Female biography was identified and named by Mary Hays (1759–1843) as a discrete empirical category of knowledge production and analysis while researching figures for the first Enlightenment prosopography of women, Female Biography; Or, memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of all Ages and Countries (R. Phillips, 1803) in six volumes.
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Anne McDowell was the first American woman to publish a newspaper completely run by women; it was circulated weekly and titled, "Women's Advocate". [24] [25] Emeline Roberts Jones was the first woman to practice dentistry in the United States. [26] She married the dentist Daniel Jones when she was a teenager, and became his assistant in 1855. [27]
SAWNET: The South Asian Women's NETwork Bookshelf; Victorian Women Writers Project; Voices from the Gaps: Women Artists & Writers of Color; The Women Writers Archive: Early Modern Women Writers Online; SOPHIE: a digital library of works by German-speaking women; REBRA: a list of women writers from Brazil. Biographies in Portuguese, English and ...
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The book sold very well, remaining on The New York Times Best Seller list for more than three months. [6] [8] Michelle Obama's memoir Becoming was published in 2018. She received over $60 million in advance of publication, and the book had sold over 11.5 million copies as of November 2019.
This table compares six eighteenth-century collections of notable women: George Ballard's Memoirs of several ladies of Great Britain (1752), [2] John Duncombe's The Feminead (1754), [3] the Biographium Faemineum (Anon., 1766), [4] Mary Scott's The Female Advocate (1775), [5] Richard Polwhele's The Unsex'd Females [6] (1798), and Mary Hay's ...
Nana Asma'u (1793–1864), Fulani poet and pioneer of women's education in Sokoto Caliphate; Mah Laqa Bai (1768–1824), Urdu poet and philanthropist; Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825), English poet, essayist, literary critic and children's author; Margaret Bingham (1740–1814), English poet and painter; Susanna Blamire (1747–1794 ...