705: Selma Lagerlöf Teacher and Author Born: 20 November 1858, Östra Emterwik, Sweden Died: 16 March 1940, Mårbacka, Sweden Selma was the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was also the first Swedish person to win the Nobel. She started writing poetry as a child, but didn’t publish until later…
702: Joanne Winter All-American Girls Professional Baseball League Player Born: 24 November 1924, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America Died: 22 September 1996, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America Also Known As: Jo or Joanie Jo played from 1943 to 1950 for the Racine Belles. She ranks third of seven players who had more than…
697: Claire Schillace Donahoe All American Girls Professional Baseball League Player Born: 29 March 1921, Melrose Park, Illinois, United States of America Died: 17 January 1999, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America Also Known As: Clara Claire played for the Racine Belles from 1943 to 1946. She was twenty-one years old when she began to…
696: Toni Palermo All American Girls Professional Baseball League Player Born: 1934, Forest Park, Illinois, United States of America Also Known As: Peanuts Toni played for the Chicago Colleens and the Springfield Sallies during the 1949 and 1950 seasons. She started playing softball when she was eleven years old and was fourteen when she began…
657: Emily Howland The First Female Director of a US National Bank Born: 27 November 1827, New York, United States of America Died: 29 June 1929, Sherwood, New York, United States of America Emily was also a philanthropist, educator, and advocate for African American civil rights, temperance, and women’s suffrage. Emily was friends with Susan…
“You didn’t want to physically be in the way of Gertrude. If Gertrude would have stood up to Hitler, it would have been a two-year war. She just flat out got it done,” -Nelson McDaniel, President of the New Bern [North Carolina] Historical Society 653: Gertrude Carraway Journalist, Teacher, Speaker, Historian, Director and President General…
581: Deborah Sampson Gannett Revolutionary War Soldier Born: 17 December 1760, Plympton, The Massachusetts Bay Colony (Present-day Plympton, Massachusetts, United States of America) Died: 29 April 1827, Sharon, Massachusetts, United States of America Deborah is also the first known American woman to dress up as a man to fight in war. She enlisted in the…
546: Dorothy Garrod Archaeologist and The First Woman to Hold an Oxford Chair Born: 5 May 1892, London, United Kingdom Died: 18 December 1968, Cambridge, United Kingdom This meant Dorothy was the first female professor at Oxford. Almost ten years earlier, she had also become the first female professor at Cambridge. She was a pioneer…
“[Kathryn] would be English enough to satisfy British audiences, but not so English that it would put off American audiences.” -Walt Disney 515: Kathryn Beaumont Wendy and Alice Are the Same Person!? Born: 27 June 1938, London, United Kingdom Voice Actress, Actress, and School Teacher who is most known for portraying Alice Kingsley in Alice…
By now everyone should know teachers don’t get enough appreciation, from students or parents! This list may not be every single woman who worked as a teacher in her life (because let’s be honest, as early back as a century ago teaching was about the only profession women could go into before making history), but…