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CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 11 Mar 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, is the first play by a Black woman to debut on Broadway.</p><p>Hansberry was a rising star when she died young of cancer. Her posthumous play, Young Gifted and Black, inspired her friend Nina Simone to write the song of the same name. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hdVFiANBTk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=_hdVFiANBT</span><span class="invisible">k</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistoryMonth</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LiteraryWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiteraryWomen</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p>It is a truth universally acknowledged that <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 28 Jan 1813, a new novel 'by the author of Sense &amp; Sensibility' was published. </p><p>'Pride &amp; Prejudice' by Jane Austen has sold over 20 million copies, and had many imitators. During her lifetime, it never carried her name as the author.</p><p>Bonus photo of Jennifer Ehle as Lizzie Bennett, giving us side-eye.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LiteraryWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiteraryWomen</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p>It's ALIVE! </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 1 Jan 1818, Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' was published anonymously. Her gothic novel was also one of the first science-fiction novels.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ReadMoreWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReadMoreWomen</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LiteraryWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiteraryWomen</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 27 April 1925, Edna Ferber wins the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with her novel 'So Big'.</p><p>She donates the prize money to the Authors League to support sick and elderly authors.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LiteraryWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiteraryWomen</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 2 Jan 1969, Lorraine Hansberry's posthumous autobiographical play 'To Be Young, Gifted and Black' opens off-Broadway in New York City. </p><p>It inspires her friend Nina Simone to write the song of the same name.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LiteraryWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiteraryWomen</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>histodons</span></a></p><p>Listen to Simone: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hdVFiANBTk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=_hdVFiANBT</span><span class="invisible">k</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p>It's ALIVE! <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 1 Jan 1818, Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' is published anonymously. Her gothic novel is also one of the first science-fiction novels.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInSFF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInSFF</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenWriters</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Bookstadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstadon</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LiteraryWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiteraryWomen</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 1 Sept 1773, Phillis Wheatley's collection of poetry is published in London: the first known collection by an African-American poet.</p><p>Read more about her life, and selected poems at: <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/phillis-wheatley" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">poetryfoundation.org/poets/phi</span><span class="invisible">llis-wheatley</span></a> (CW: contains descriptions of enslavement)</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LiteraryWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiteraryWomen</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AmericanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackHistory</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p>It's ALIVE! <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 1 Jan 1818, Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' is published anonymously. Her gothic novel is also one of the first science-fiction novels.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInSFF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInSFF</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenWriters</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodons</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Bookstadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstadon</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LiteraryWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiteraryWomen</span></a></p>
CarveHerName<p>“Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.“</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OnThisDay</span></a>, 7 Dec 1993, Toni Morrison gives her Nobel lecture, part of her acceptance of the Nobel prize in literature.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LiteraryWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LiteraryWomen</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bookstadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstadon</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RecentHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RecentHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomenInHistory</span></a></p>
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