today in women's herstory
September 10
This Day in Women's History
1167: Empress Matilda, Domina Anglorum (Lady of the English), died. She fought against her cousin Stephen for the succession to the throne of England in a bloody civil war, and won succession for her son, Henry II.
1740: Mary Willing Byrd born (plantation manager)
1758: Hannah Webster Foster born (writer)
1797: Mary Wollstonecraft (writer, philosopher) died of childbed fever, shortly after giving birth to the future Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (writer: Frankenstein )
1864: Josephine Adams Rathbone born (librarian)
1877: Katherine Dreier born (artist, art patron)
1886: Hilda Doolittle ("H.D."
born (writer, poet)
1948: Margaret Trudeau born (Canadian First Lady)
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