Women
Dr. Mary Walker–Two Ways
This is more of a public service announcement than a blog post. Women’s History Month is almost here and cool things are popping up in my in box that I am eager to share. For those of you who live in or near Hopewell, New Jersey, Independence: The True Story of Dr. Mary Walker will…
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Jeanne Mammen, “Neue Frau”
And speaking of the “New Woman,” as I believe we were, allow me to introduce you to German artist and illustrator Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976) whose life and work in the 1920s and 1930s embodied the “Neue Frau” in Berlin. Mammen was born in Berlin in 1890, but her family moved to Paris when she was…
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Sigrid Schultz, the “New Woman,” and Fanny Fern Fitzwater
Sigrid Schultz always described herself as a newspaperman. She worked in a largely male world, first as a foreign correspondents and later as a war correspondent in World War II. She was proud of her role as the first woman to be a foreign bureau chief for an American newspaper. Schultz, and the small number…
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