Dorothea Lange (L) in 1936 and her photo (R), titled Migrant Mother. / Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain (L), Dorothea Lange, Getty Images (R) I think that even teenagers or adults should read picture books or childrens books more often. They usually focus on very important topics and explain them in such an easy and fun way; we can learn so much from picture books though and with all these beautiful illustrations it’s even more fun to spend some time reading them. This one has such an important message and no matter how old someone is, this is a must read.

A secret agency, the Special Operations Executive (SOE), whose spies were specially trained for war. Chisala also talks about self-love and self-care. Something on the journey of doing for myself. She also mentioned not putting a man before yourself. Something I often see way more than I should.After that, she went to Harvard and Columbia Law Schools, before eventually becoming one of the first female law professors in America. TR: Yes, the delicate combination of colour and fabric in the Sonia Delaunay volume is stunning. She had such a fresh, innovative approach to fashion in the Jazz age, and her geometric designs are far from the typical flapper girl aesthetic you might associate with the era. The rare inscribed copy of Mary Gartside’s first book was also a great discovery. She was the first woman in the Western world to publish a book on colour and discuss colour theory, but until recently, she had almost disappeared from history. Her work predates that of more recognised and quoted male colour theorists, such as James Sowerby and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Mary Seacole was a natural born healer. Though she’s often referred to as the first nurse practitioner, she had no formal training in nursing—because she lived in a time where no formal institutions for such education existed. Even if they had, it’s doubtful that Seacole, who was born in Jamaica in 1805, would have been welcome; as the daughter of a Jamaican mother and a Scottish father, Seacole dealt with prejudice throughout her life because of her mixed race. But that didn’t stop her from offering a hand when she could. Virginia Apgar’s career was full of firsts: In 1937, she became the first female board-certified anesthesiologist and the first woman to achieve the rank of professor at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, where she was the first professor of anesthesiology. In 1952, she presented a five-step system for assessing the condition of newborn babies within a minute of birth and periodically after that. Prior to the development of the test—in which nurses or other delivery room staff assess a baby’s skin color, heart rate, reflexes, muscle tone, and breathing—babies weren’t typically given much attention after birth, which could lead to problems being missed until it was too late.

There are some real landmarks included like Charlotte Lennox's work of Shakespeare criticism, which comes from the library of the first known major female book collector in the UK, Mary Richardson Currer (95), but also Nancy Cunard's Negro Anthology from 1934 (44), Mary Butt's Armed with Madness from 1928 making her one of the most important modernist authors of the interwar years (35) and one of the most recent works included, Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I Am No Longer Talking to White People About Race, an annotated copy from 2017 (56). How did you go about choosing them for the catalogue? De când am devenit mamă, am înțeles câtă responsabilitate cade pe umerii noștri în educația celor mici. Mai ales acest lucru se face simțibil în cazul în care avem fete pe care trebuie să le educăm. Nu este nici o urmă de sexism în afirmația mea, deoarece realitățile istorice, traumele pe care le purtăm prin generații, ne-au făcut vulnerabile, predispuse să cedăm în fața presiunii externe. Totuși, în ultimele secole, femeile s-au „scuturat” de toate stereotipurile și au înțeles că rolul de femeie este mult mai vast și se întinde dincolo de limitele de a fi amfitrioana casei și mașina de făcut copii. Pornind din dorința de a educa femei libere de greșelile trecutului, tot mai mulți autori decid să le reamintească despre exemplele minunate și demne de urmat. Cu atât mai mult este salutabilă această inițiativă dacă vine prin intermediul literaturii destinate copiilor. Vice President Kamala Harris has gotten closest to the Oval Office, but Victoria Claflin Woodhull tried to make it there almost a century and a half earlier. Before she became the first woman to run for president in 1872, Woodhull divorced her cheating, alcoholic husband and had a successful, eclectic career alongside her sister, Tennessee. Together, they served as Cornelius Vanderbilt’s personal clairvoyants, became the first women to found and run a Wall Street brokerage firm, and established a leftist newspaper, Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly, which was the first to publish an American English translation of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s Communist Manifesto. She then became the presidential candidate for the Equal Rights Party, running on a liberal platform that supported women’s suffrage, an eight-hour workday, welfare programs, and more. Needless to say, she didn’t win—at 34 years old, she wasn’t really even old enough to run—but her campaign helped clear the path for dozens of female presidential hopefuls who have fought the noble fight since then. —EG 128. Chien-Shiung Wu Sacagawea Monument in City Park, Portland, Oregon, circa 1912; statue by Alice Cooper / Library of Congress // Public Domain Last but not least, there are some fabulous books on art and fashion included, where women established themselves as leaders in their field, with the stylish Sonia Delaunay book (I have to confess I also bid for it, but obviously failed) being a fine example (49).From Madame Curie who discovered radiation to Sally Ride, the first woman to go to space, this New York Times bestselling book shows that science is no man’s field. This gorgeous picture book tells us about a few of the fantastic women who changed the world and made it into a better; even more interesting and fun place. From athletes to scientists and more – there’s a great selection of some amazing women in this book; a varied bunch, but they all did something super special and great. Vi starter ved skrivebordet i 1800-tallets England, hvor Jane Austen er i færd med at udtænke karaktererne til sine romaner. Allerede her bliver det tydeligt hvilket flerartet mesterværk Kate Pankhurst har kreeret med sin brug af forskellig font, farvestrålende billeder og talebobler. Al tekst præsenteres i bittesmå bidder, så den synes overskuelig, men lixtallet sørger alligevel for, at bogen bliver en fælles læseoplevelse mellem barn og voksen, da den kræver en ret stærk læser. Men det er også en bog, der bør tales om, så den er selvfølgelig oplagt til højtlæsningen. Such books are so beneficial especially to young girls out there to show them what they are capable of doing; and of course for young boys so they can learn to always respect women, always. It’s so nice to show girls, especially those who may struggle with life, that there are so many things they can do; that they don’t need a man to be successful in life and/or their jobs. Every woman is worthy and every woman can do something to change the world; to make this place we live in a better pace.

Among the women in science Laura Bassi (11), Grace Chisholm (40) and Antonia Maury (108) really stood out for me. Tell us a little bit about them and how you chose the most important female scientists to include in the catalogue. Emily Murphy (1868–1933) The first woman magistrate in the British Empire. In 1927 she joined forces with four other Canadian women who sought to challenge an old Canadian law that said, “women should not be counted as persons.” This no doubt takes us to some fine examples of the Suffragette Movement and feminist literature and magazines. Which of them stood out in particular? I am not sure that some of the women were hugely influential in changing the world. But the fact that the earlier women are there because accident of birth or political marriage allowed them to achieve, such as Cleopatra and Catherine the Great, while the later are there because they were achievers in science or literature, such as Marie Curie or Virginia Woolf, is telling. After that we get women who achieved in physical ways such as flying, tennis or sailing. Even acting and singing. Leading countries, civil rights or peace movements is up there too.

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Queen Elizabeth II was officially coronated on June 2, 1953. / Victoria Jones - WPA Pool/Getty Images Valentina Tereshkova receiving the Galabert International Astronauts Prize in Paris in 1965. / Keystone/Getty Images Testament of Youth is an autobiography of Vera Brittain’s life from 1900-1925. She first writes about growing up in Edwardian Britain as she struggled to convince her parents of her right to go to university. I imagine that USAmericans would not like their own history and law misrepresented like this, so I would be grateful if this could be revised. Much like Queen Victoria, her great-great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II was not born the heir presumptive. But all that changed in December 1936 with the abdication of her uncle, Edward VIII, and her father’s ascension to the throne. With no brothers to jump her place in the line of succession, Princess Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth II upon the death of her father, George VI, in 1952. Though she was only 25 years old at the time, and largely surrounded by men who had years of political experience on her, Elizabeth managed to find her voice and hold her own against legendary leaders like Winston Churchill, who became one of her closest allies.