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First a Girl, Second a Martyr: The girlhood of the Revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg

Jan 15, 2021 | Blog, Sites of Girlhood | 0 comments

She is remembered for her commitment to marxism and socialist politics and died a martyr on January 15th, 1919 after co-leading the November Revolution after World War 1.

The youngest author in Africa: Michelle Nkamankeng

Jan 8, 2021 | Blog, Sites of Girlhood | 0 comments

Michelle in 2015. At seven, most children are playing with their friends, their favourite book or toy, and going to school. For a certain few seven year olds, however, they are set to achieve things adults couldn’t even dream of or do in a lifetime. Michelle...

An unorthodox choice: Maria Montessori

Jan 1, 2021 | Blog, Sites of Girlhood | 0 comments

Maria in 1913. Maria was born on 31st August, 1870 in the provincial town of Chiaravalle. Her father was a financial manager and her mother was a woman who prised education above all else. Maria’s mother was well schooled and an avid reader. This was unusual for an...

A pioneer for the deafblind: Laura Bridgman

Dec 25, 2020 | Blog, Sites of Girlhood | 0 comments

Born in Hanover, New Hampshire in December 1892, Laura was a member of a hardworking farming family. At 2 years old, she contracted scarlet fever. Two of her siblings died from the illness. Laura survived but she lost most of her senses including sight, hearing, smell...

Thandiwe Charma Campaigns for Education

Dec 23, 2020 | Blog, Sites of Girlhood | 0 comments

Born in 1991, Thandiwe grew up in Zambia, in the midst of the AIDS/HIV epidemic. She saw first hand how it devastated the lives of the people she knew who both did and did not have the disease. When some of her teachers died from the disease, there became a shortage...

The Nine Day Queen: Lady Jane Grey

Dec 18, 2020 | Blog, Sites of Girlhood | 0 comments

The Streatham portrait now in the National Portrait Gallery. It is not from life, being either from a template or an earlier portrait, but there is certainly a strong familial resemblance between this Jane and the surviving portraits of her sister, Catherine. The...

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