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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]
Marian Fowler (née Little; October 15, 1929 – June 12, 2020) was a Canadian literary scholar and biographer who was best known for writing women's biographies.
De Mulieribus Claris or De Claris Mulieribus (Latin for "Concerning Famous Women") is a collection of biographies of historical and mythological women by the Florentine author Giovanni Boccaccio, composed in Latin prose in 1361–1362. It is the first collection devoted exclusively to biographies of women in post-ancient Western literature. [2]
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 ...
Collective Biographies of Women by Alison Booth, covering thousands of women of all kinds and eras; Cyclopedia of Female Biography, Henry Gardiner Adams, 1857; Female Biography; Wikipedia list of redlinks; Dictionary of African Christian Biography curated database produced since 1995 by the Overseas Ministries Study Center in New Haven ...
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