03-06/07-95 Women of Achievement and Herstory
      Weekend, two entries. 

03-06 Anniversaries ...........................................

      B. 03-06-1791, Anna Claypoole Peale, American painter of miniatures.

      B. 03-06-1806, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet best known
for her _Sonnets from the Portugese_. A genius, she read Greek when she
was eight.

      Event 03-06-1906, Nora Stanton Blatch, the daughter of Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, one of the pioneers of women's rights in the US, herself a
suffragist becomes the first member of the American Society of Civil
Engineers.   

      B. 03-06-1937, Lt. Col Valentina Tereschkova orbited the earth 48
times aboard _Vostok VI_ for almost three days 06-16/19-1963. She manually
controlled the space craft for part of the time.  The first American woman
allowed to touch a space craft's controls was co-pilot Eileen Collins in
February of 1995, thirty-two years LATER. The first American woman - Dr.
Sally Ride - went into space as a crew member 06-18-1983, TWENTY years
after Terschkova.  Ride, who married an astronaut, wanted it known that
she went into space as a scientist and not a woman.  

03-07 Anniversaries ...........................................

      D. 03-07-1729, Henrietta Johnston, self-taught portrait artist born in
Ireland about 1655 and immigrated to the United States with her husband
in 1707 and settled in what is now Charleston, SC. Her husband immediately
became ill and while she nursed him and took care of her children and
home in abject poverty, to raise money she began to draw portraits of
local dignitaries in the new form of pastels.  Almost 50 portraits are
credited to her and she is considered to be the first American woman
artist.  Her technique was straight forward with little adornment.  Almost
nothing is known about her life.  She may have moved to New York to
work after her husband's death. 

      B. 03-07-1856, Matilde Serapo, founder of the Neapolitan daily
newspaper _Il Giorno_ and noted Italian novelist.

      B. 03-07-1875, Mary Norton, US Representative, New Jersey.  Chair
of the Labor Committee.

      B. 03-07-1893, (Alice) Lorena Hickok, highest paid woman newspaper
reporter of her day with Associated Press, political reporter, and later
became investigator for Harry Hopkins in the Department of Commerce after
her involvement with Eleanor Roosevelt made her step out of journalism. 
She actually lived in the White House with Mrs. Roosevelt and slept in ER's
apartment. 

      B. 03-07-1907, Anna Magnani, Italian actor won Academy Award for
her work in _The Rose Tattoo_(1955) based on a play Tennessee Williams
created especially for her, but she could not play it on Broadway because
she didn't know enough English in 1951.

      B. 03-07-1938, Janet Guthrie, an aerospace engineer, was one of the
first four women to qualify for the scientist-astronaut program of NASA
and then disqualified when a Ph.D. was made a requirement; was the first
woman to drive in the Indianapolis 500.  In 1978, she finished ninth.  Her
other entries in 1977 and 1979 were aborted because of engine trouble. No
women were even allowed in the repair and refueling pits at the Indy 500
until a lawsuit in 1972.

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irenestuber@delphi.com. Distribute verbatim copies freely with copyright
notice for non-profit use. Don't let anyone tell you there weren't notable
and effective women throughout history.  They were always there, but
historians failed to note them in our histories so that each generation of
women has had to reinvent themselves.