Warrior queens & quiet revolutionaries: forgotten women from history
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The First Black Woman Poet
Phyllis Wheatley was an enslaved woman taken to America. Murasaki Shikippu wrote what you could call a soap opera of women's lives in the medieval period. Ding Ling, the Chinese poet, talking about daughters and why daughters should be allowed the same opportunities as their brothers. Rachel Lusetto Mopergo, who wrote with great desperation, the first woman to write in Hebrew for 2000 years. If you could nominate one woman yourself to share their story, who would you choose?
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