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Periodically, I post a list of which ten women's biographies have been the most popular on this site. The figures are now in for the whole year, and I've adjusted the list to reflect 2006's rankings. In listing the top 10 for 2006, I note that there are some interesting changes in who's in and who's out: Read more...
Wednesday January 3, 2007 permalink comments (2)

Lucretia Mott
Lucretia Mott, born January 3, 1793, worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to initiate the first women's rights convention, in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York. Mott was also a key organizer of the 1850 women's rights convention in Rochester, New York, which was less of a local and more of a national meeting. She's typical of many of the early women's rights activists in that her position grew out of her work against slavery. Read more: Lucretia Mott
Wednesday January 3, 2007 permalink comments (0)

Causes of the Witch Craze?
"Why were middle-aged and old women, with a few young maidens, singled out as the special victims of that terrible mania of superstition which for fifteen hundred years lighted lurid flames of burning humanity on innumerable hilltops and inspired a malignity and ingenuity of torture unmatched in the whole realm of cruelty?"Once well-known woman writer Anna Garlin Spencer offers some possible answers to this question that scholars of the European witch craze are still asking today. Here's her 1913 article about the role of women in society after their mothering years are over. Read more...
Tuesday January 2, 2007 permalink comments (0)

Pompey's Wives
Pompey the Great had five wives. From N. S. Gill, About.com's Guide to Ancient History, here are their names and the conditions of the marriages and divorces: Pompey's Wives
Tuesday January 2, 2007 permalink comments (0)

January 1: Betsy Ross Birthday
She sewed the first American flag -- maybe. But she was also an example of an American woman in revolutionary America, a widow and single mother making her way in time of war. managing property and business on her own....About Betsy Ross
Monday January 1, 2007 permalink comments (0)

Notable Women Who Died in 2006
The world lost many important and interesting women in 2006. Here are some month-by-month details about a few of the most notable: Notable Women Who Died in 2006
Wednesday December 27, 2006 permalink comments (0)

Book Review: Eleanor of Aquitaine
From About.com's Guide to Medieval History, Melissa Snell, a review of a recent story of Eleanor of Aquitaine told as historical fiction by Robert Fripp: Review - Eleanor of Aquitaine: Power of a Woman
Also about Eleanor of Aquitaine:
Eleanor of Aquitaine profile
Fashion in the Time of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Tuesday December 26, 2006 permalink comments (0)

Early American Christmas and the Puritans
Alice Morse Earle, writing more than 100 years ago about Christmas in early New England, said "Of the first Pilgrim Christmas we know but little, save that it was spent, as was many a later one, in work." Read more about colonial Christmases: Early American Christmas and the Puritans
Sunday December 24, 2006 permalink comments (0)

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Granny said...
Great post - sorry I haven't been around much lately.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007 9:39:40 AM

SHERHAZADE said...
Blogger just ate my comment. Anyway, I found the list of women whose biographies were popular on the site very interesting. Great post idea.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007 6:54:27 PM

Worried said...
Granny, everyone knows how full your life is right now. We pray for your strength to cope and meet the challenges you and your family face. Shera; Blogger is doing a LOT of no-nos lately, more errors than usual. Blogger disappeared one of my blogs, as it has of so many bloggers who wail on their blogger support group page. I have NOT been able to recover it, and it represented many, many hours of research and work.It is immaterial that it was a personal blog for my own enjoyment; it was MY blog!!Thank you; I am glad you liked it.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007 7:15:29 PM