catching up on my #100daysofwomenwonders ...

As this project has grown in complexity I have fallen behind on posting here on my blog ... 

but that is easily fixed.  Today, lets start with 5 of my #womenwonders ...

Willa Cather ~ American novelist, Pulitzer Prize winner, author of ‘My Antonia’, ‘One of Ours’, ‘ O Pioneers!’ & many more. 

34/100

 

Elizabeth Goudge 

British author of novels, short stories & children’s book. Her book ‘the Little White Horse’ was a favorite book of J.K. Rowling and had a direct influence on the Harry Potter series. 

24/100

 

Eudora Alice Welty 

American short story writer and novelist who wrote about the American South. 

Her novel The Optimist's Daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973

21/100

Dorothy Canfield Fisher ~

Best selling American author in the early 20th century. Champion of women’s rights, racial equality, life-long education & responsible for bringing the Montessori method of child-rearing to the US. Social activist for educational reform, rehabilitation of prisons & pardoning of conscientious objectors. Longtime friend of Willa Cather.

32/100

Dorothy Parker ~

American author, poet, critic, humorist, screenwriter & satirist. Founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. Famous for her mastery of short fiction & her biting wit & scathing observation. Social activist leading to her being blacklisted in Hollywood. In her will she bequeathed her estate to Martin Luther King Jr. & in 1988 the NAACP designed a memorial garden at its headquarters for Parker’s ashes. 

30/100

As happens with any of my projects my #100daysofwomenwonders has morphed - first sharing quotes by women in one of my mixed media dress collages, then I added a pen and ink portrait of the quoted women and lastly I am hand-lettering the quote via procreate. With each transition the project is more time consuming, however, thoroughly challenging and enjoyable, but I am getting behind on posting. I am posting fairly regularly on instagram if you want to follow my #100dayproject, 

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May this dress remind us of our inner guts and grit ... from woman wonder: Nellie Bly

Nellie Bly:

American journalist, daredevil, feminist, trailblazer, pioneer in the field of investigative journalism. Made a record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days. 

Pen name of Elizabeth Cochran Seaman

A definite #womenwonder 

26/100

Nellie Bly was the pen name of pioneer female journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochran. She remains notable for two feats: a record-breaking trip around the world in emulation of Jules Verne's character Phileas Fogg (Bly completed the trip in seventy-two days), and an exposé in which she faked insanity to study a mental institution from within. In addition to her writing, she was also an industrialist and charity worker. Bly died of pneumonia at St. Mark's Hospital in New York City in 1922 aged 57. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4372012.Nellie_Bly

Elizabeth Cochran Seaman[1] (May 5, 1864[2] – January 27, 1922), better known by her pen name, Nellie Bly, was an American journalist. She was a pioneer in her field and launched a new kind of investigative journalism.[4] Bly was also a writer, inventor, and industrialist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly

“I said I could and I would. And I did.” 

Nellie Bly, Ten Days in a Mad-House

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Today let us celebrate new beginnings .... Happy Easter

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, often known as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley) was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, travel writer, and editor of the works of her husband, Romantic poet, and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. She was the daughter of the political philosopher William Godwin and the writer, philosopher, and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/11139.Mary_Wollstonecraft_Shelley

“The beginning is always today.” 

Mary Shelley

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May this dress give us the courage to change what we can not accept ...

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Angela Yvonne Davis: 

American communist, political activist, academic, and writer who advocates for the oppressed

Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944)  emerged as a prominent counterculture activist in the 1960s working with the Communist Party USA, of which she was a member until 1991, and was briefly involved in the Black Panther Party during the Civil Rights Movement.[4]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. 

I am changing the things I cannot accept.” 

Angela Y. Davis

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May this dress remind us not to worry ....

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Corrie ten Boom: Writer, watchmaker, shero*, lifesaver

Cornelia Arnolda Johanna "Corrie" ten Boom (15 April 1892 – 15 April 1983) was a Dutch watchmaker and later a writer who worked with her father Casper ten Boom, her sister Betsie ten Boom and other family members to help many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust during World War IIby hiding them in her home. They were caught and she was arrested and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp. Her most famous book, The Hiding Place, is a biography that recounts the story of her family's efforts and how ten Boom found hope while imprisoned at the concentration camp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrie_ten_Boom

*shero: a woman regarded as a herohttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shero

Worry does not empty 

tomorrow of its sorrow. 

It empties today of its strength. 

Corrie Ten Boom

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May this dress encourage us to do that which hasn't been done!

Today, two of my world's are colliding; 

my #femininewordsofwisdom and my #100dayproject.

 In the world of social media, starting in April there is a 'challenge' called the #100dayproject. It is open to anyone who wants to participate, and all one needs to do is to set a project for themselves to do for 100 days straight and then do it.  Part of the challenge is posting each day's creation on social media, creating accountability. 

The array of #100dayprojects is spectacular and inspiring.  One year I did #100daysofvirginiacreates and this year I had planned to present 100 days of patterns, however, 

today that changes. 

In March, on this blog,  I featured quotes by women, #femininewordsofwisdom, in honor of  Women's History Month, during which I found so many wonderful quotes and interesting women that I planned to continue.  

I feel very strongly that works and words of and by women need to be celebrated and shared.  As anyone who follows this blog knows, I am a quote-junkie. I am constantly on the lookout for quotes; unique quotes, new quotes, profound quotes, and different quotes. 

 I have also accrued a healthy collection of books of quotes.  And as I venture through these landscapes of quotes I am painfully aware of the dearth of quotes by women.  This trend is changing in the past few years but there is a lot more work that needs to be done.  

So I am changing my #100dayproject to #100daysofwomenwonders where I will share women's quotes, achievements, and accomplishments, with a variety of artistic additions - be it a dress?!? an illustration?!? a pattern or two or maybe a hand-lettered quote, 

time will tell.  

And as I have been doing with the past #femininewordsofwisdom posts, I plan to put at least one or two links to biographical information about the day's featured woman.  

So I am following the advice of Toni Morrison and creating a 'book' (blog) full of the women wonders, celebrating the well-known women and the not so well known women.  It is a book that I wish I had read when I was a little girl and one that I want my daughters to be able to read.

So let the fun begin ...

below is a short bio and links to read more:

Toni Morrison

Morrison grew up in the American Midwest in a family that possessed an intense love of and appreciation for black culture. Storytelling, songs, and folktales were a deeply formative part of her childhood. She attended Howard University (B.A., 1953) and Cornell University (M.A., 1955). After teaching at Texas Southern University for two years, she taught at Howard from 1957 to 1964. In 1965 Morrison became a fiction editor at Random House, where she worked for a number of years. In 1984 she began teaching writing at the State University of New York at Albany, which she left in 1989 to join the faculty of Princeton University; she retired in 2006.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Toni-Morrison

If there is a book that you want to read, 

but it hasn't been written yet, 

you must be the one to write it. 

Toni Morrison

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