To ask for your inspirational historical women or

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men at a push that a 9 year old girl might like to learn about/ be inspired by??
DD loves non/ fiction biogs and we’ve done the obvious ones like Marie Curie, Amelia Earhart, Frida Kahlo, Anne Frank etc and ALL the female pirates!
So looking for ideas for either books your child has read or a great role model type that we can Google and read about! She likes reading about women more than men, and the more adventurous the better!

Tove Janssen, Nanna Ditzel

Beryl Burton Cyclist

She held a stupendous number of domestic, international and works records, some exceeding the men’s record for that event.

She trained with her baby daughter in a side car contraption

She rode to races, raced and rode home. Whether the race was local, 100 miles away or overseas.

The Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, and her daughters, I think they’re Sylvia, Adela and Christabel.

@Ponoka7

"Rosa Parks"

Claudette Colvin was the first to refuse to move, they used Rosa Parks because she was more socially acceptable.

Yes Claudette Colvin is an amazing character - a teenager who was the first to do what Rosa Parks did but because of her age and social background she was written out of history.

Catherine Thimmesh has written a couple books that might be interesting:
Girls Solve Everything and Girls Think of Everything. Would suggest those to continue pique her interest.

Ellen & William Craft

Artemisia Gentileschi

Queen Zenobia

Hypatia

Suffragettes.. Emmeline Pankhurst. Maya Angelou. Malala..

Mary Somerville
Mary Wollstonecraft
Millicent Fawcett
Mary Seacole
Florence Nightingale
Oprah Winfrey
Coco Chanel

Sojourner Truth
I get butterflies every time I read her legendary speech!

Grace darling, Catherine parr

Edith cavell
Violette szabo
Vera Brittain

Thank you to the poster who suggested this link.... it's brilliant. I knew Nancy Wake. I visited her in her care home and was an usher at her Memorial Service. She was a tricky, demanding woman. And what a Hero! She was a War Lord in the prime of her life. So the long years of being a civilian afterwards would be tricky and drink filled. But she was the best, bravest, fiercest, best leader. I wish my daughter had met her. Cometh the Hour Cometh the Woman.

www.rejectedprincesses.com/princesses/nancy-wake

I came on to mention Rosalind Franklin but see she's already on the list.
Freya Stark, explorer and travel writer.
Josephine Baker, French Resistance Agent, civil rights activist, singer & dancer.

Hildegard of Bingen

How about Laura Ingalls Wilder? Many people think she was a cutesy homemaker but she was actually a tough pioneer woman who lived through many hardships. Her books are perfect for a nine year old too. Good luck OP, your daughter sounds fabulous

Came here to sat Mary Wollstonecraft, but see others already beat me to it! Traveled as a single woman to write about the French revolution and published the vindication of rights for women amongst many other things.

Francesca Cavallo and Elena Cavilli: Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls (and sequels)

Kate Pankhurst: Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World (and sequels, e.g Fantastically Great Women Who Changed History)

Irena Sendler

www.firstworldwarglasgow.co.uk/index.aspx?articleid=11384
Mary Barbour led a rent strike in Glasgow when factors tried to exploit the absence of men fighting in the trenches to gouge money from the women left at home.

Florence Nightingale
Edith Cavell
Mary Seacole

Josephine Baker - born in the US into poverty and segregation, became an entertainer in Europe, confirmed Francophile, part of the French resistance and anti- fascist, civil rights activist, adopted 12 children and one of only 6 (and the first black woman) woman to be buried in the Pantheon.

So much more than just a dancer in a banana skirt.

Elsie Inglis first world War doctor and suffragist

www.scotland.org/features/elsie-inglis-the-war-heroine-who-refused-to-go-home-and-sit-still

Have you looked at the Little People Big Lives series? They start from when the inspirational person was small. Written for children rather than adults but a great list of titles to start you off.