Who was Jane Addams? Well, for one thing she was the first American woman to win the Nobel prize. She was a feminist and a pioneer and innovator in the field of social work (before the field actually existed as social work.) Jane was born in 1860 to a prosperous and politically active miller who [...]
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Women You Should Know:Dixie Haygood, AKA Annie Abbott: the Little Georgia Magnet
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged aranormal, history, women, women's history on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dixie Haygood was born Anna Jarrett in 1861, according to the New Georgia Encyclpedia and married George Haygood when she was 17 years old. In 1885, she began performing a stage act under the stage name “Annie Abbott the Little Georgia Magnet” that astonished not only audiences in the US but across Europe. At only [...]
Women You Should Know: Emily Warren Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged history, women, women's history on March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
(In honor of Women’s History month, I am posting a series of articles I wrote, Women You Should Know.) Emily Warren Roebling is a woman I’d be willing to bet you’ve never heard of. But you’ve heard of the Brooklyn Bridge, right? Well, without Emily Warren Roebling, the Brooklyn Bridge would not exist as it [...]
Women You Should Know: Emily Warren Roebling and the Brooklyn Bridge
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged women, women's history on February 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Emily Warren Roebling is a woman I’d be willing to bet you’ve never heard of. But you’ve heard of the Brooklyn Bridge, right? Well, without Emily Warren Roebling, the Brooklyn Bridge would not exist as it does today. It all began when Emily Warren met and fell in love with Washington Roebling, while visiting her [...]
