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What does independence really mean for women? Through oral histories spanning generations, ‘We Do Declare’ explores how access to money, credit, and opportunity shaped women’s lives and the economic freedom that makes true independence possible.

by Rachel F. Seidman

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-american-womens-history-museum/2026/03/02/we-do-declare-womens-voices-on-independence/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550

Mary Wollstonecraft at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/84

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Title page of the book Memoirs and Posthumous Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Vol. 1

by Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin

A title page from a small 18th-century printed book on cream paper, text centred in varying type sizes: Memoirs and Posthumous Works of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. Below a ruled line: Dublin: Printed by Thomas Burnside, for J. Rice, 111, Grafton-Street. 1798.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/67847/pg67847-images.html

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8 Badass Librarians We Need to Celebrate This International Women’s Day

https://lithub.com/8-badass-librarians-we-need-to-celebrate-this-international-womens-day/

Obras Selectas de la Celebre Monja de Mejico, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz" at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74087

Dorothy B. Porter

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Female writers and readers have been challenging the patriarchy for more than 200 years

by Roberta Garrett

https://theconversation.com/female-writers-and-readers-have-been-challenging-the-patriarchy-for-more-than-200-years-276231

Suffrage at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/72

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Line luplau seen in the foreground on her daughter Marie Luplau's large group portrait painting From the Early Days of the Fight for Women's Suffrage (1897).

An oil painting depicting a large indoor gathering of men and women in late 19th-century dress. A central standing figure — an older woman in a long dark dress with a white lace collar — commands attention, appearing to address or preside over the assembled group. To her left sits a younger woman at a table with papers and a glass vessel. The crowd behind and around them is densely arranged, faces rendered individually. The setting appears to be a meeting hall with gas lamps visible on the wall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage#/media/File:Marie_Luplau_-_Fra_Kvindevalgretskampens_f%C3%B8rste_dage_(1897),.jpg

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Happy International Women's Day! To celebrate it, Project Gutenberg created a new bookshelf titled Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/706

More information about these magnificent women can be foud in PG´s March Newsletter:
https://www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/

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Mary Somerville [Fairfax]. Lithograph after J. Phillips.

A lithograph portrait of Mary Somerville shown from the chest up, in early 19th-century dress. She has elaborately styled curly hair piled high with ringlets framing her face. She wears a ruffled white lace collar and a dress with feathered or fur trimming at the shoulders, fastened with a circular brooch. Her expression is calm and self-possessed, her gaze slightly averted.

https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/9200579/mraqxra2

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Maria Gaetana Agnesi. Line engraving by E. Conquy after M. Longhi.

A line engraving portrait ofMaria Gaetana Agnesi shown bust-length within a softly shaded oval vignette. She has powdered or light curly hair loosely styled, small drop earrings, and wears a fur-trimmed garment over a light dress with a ribbon bow at the shoulder. Her expression is composed and direct.

https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/9200579/pmfug8sg

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A portrait from the Welsh Portrait Collection at the National Library of Wales. Depicted person: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne – English aristocrat, prolific writer, and scientist. By George Kellaway

A stipple or line engraving portrait of a woman shown from the chest up against a densely cross-hatched dark background. She has long, loosely curled hair falling to her shoulders, a small decorative crown or coronet at the top of her head, and wears a pearl necklace and a low-cut dress with a draped sash. Her expression is placid and direct. The caption below reads Margaret, D. of Newcastle. The engraver's name Kellaway sc. appears at lower right.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Margaret,_D._of_Newcastle_(4670217).jpg

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Typing for Love or Money
The Hidden Women’s Labor behind Modern Literary Masterpieces

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/typing-for-love-or-money/

At PG:

"The Story of the Typewriter":

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60794

Books by Henry James:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/113

"Henry James at Work" by Theodora Bosanquet:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63377

Books by T. S. Eliot:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/599

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Lillian Sholes demonstrating a prototype typewriter invented by her father, Christopher Latham Sholes, 1872

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Elizabeth Gaskell: The Unsung Author Jane Austen And Brontë Fans Will Love

The Victorian writer had the wit of one, and the friendship of the other.

By Amy Glover

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/read-gaskell-if-you-like-bronte-austen_uk_69aaaff3e4b0bda876a8b99a

Gaskell at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/220

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Elizabeth Gaskell: 1851 portrait by George Richmond.

A chalk portrait drawing of a Gaskell, shown from the chest up against a plain light background. She has dark hair parted centrally and drawn back smoothly, with loose strands falling at the sides. Her features are delicate and her expression gentle and slightly smiling. She wears a light dress with a dark brooch or bow at the neckline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Gaskell#/media/File:Elizabeth_Gaskell.jpg

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The Colorful Story Of Maud Wagner, America’s First Female Tattoo Artist

By Kaleena Fraga

An aerialist in the circus at the turn of the 20th century, Maud Wagner broke barriers by both giving and receiving hundreds of tattoos.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/maud-wagner

Books about tattoos at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=tattoo

#womenhistoryMonth #art #history

"Maud Stevens Wagner, tattoo artist, circa 1907. Photograph shows a half-length portrait of a woman with tatooes or body paint covering her arms and chest." - Wikimedia Commons

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How Women Researchers Changed Our Understanding of Women’s Economic Lives

How can better data drive economic change? ‘We Do Declare’ uses oral histories to reveal how women collected evidence, reframed the conversation about money, and shaped lasting policy and economic opportunity.

by Rachel F. Seidman

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-american-womens-history-museum/2026/03/09/we-do-declare-collect-new-data-and-ask-new-questions-about-money/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=editorial&lctg=93133550

Women’s Economic Lives & Women economy at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68759
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=women+economy
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57913

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