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!

Katherine Johnson- mathematician for NASA
Audrey Hepburn
Maya Angelou

Ooh

Mary Anning
Elizabeth I
Edith Cavell
Mary Wolstencraft
Nellie Bly

More recently the Afghani female football team

And so so many more

Helaine Becker has written a few very good children's biographies of women mathematicians and scientists: 'Counting on Katherine' about Katherine Johnson, and one about Emmy Noether.

@Allthesefolks

Bessie Coleman

So much this!!!

Alison Hargreaves
Gwen Moffat www.mntnfilm.com/en/film/operation-moffat-2015

Dolly Parton

Seconding the Night Witches. My 12 yr old has been captivated by their story and I can't believe I never heard of them before!

Edith Cavell.
Trained as a nurse . Earned a medal for her work in TB hospital.
Volunteered to work in Belgium ( I think) and helped WW1 soldiers escape back to Britain.
Was executed in 1915 when her efforts were discovered.
Various shrines to her in Norwich and Maidstone.

Eleanor Roosevelt
RBG

Aphra Behn, without whom there would be no professional female authors. Spy, self-invented tireless self-promoter, and international woman of mystery - and writer of the first published novel.

Katie von Bora, die Lutherin - Martin Luther's wife. A woman you could not put down. Plague, widowhood, war, and cart accidents did not stop her. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharina_von_Bora

Yes, to Beatrice Shilling!

Also, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Mary Seacole, Rosalind Franklin, Mary Anning, Katherine Johnson, Sally Ride and Mae Jemison.

The book, Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World is great. Also Kate Pankhurst has done some books called fantastically great women I think.

Oh and Irena Sendler

I come with Twitter threads

Mary Burchell: twitter.com/garius/status/1220711078100897793?s=21
Abbie Sweetwine: twitter.com/garius/status/1446447850326564868?s=21
Beatrice Shilling: twitter.com/thedreadships/status/1315788958362730497?s=21
Dorothee Pullinger: twitter.com/thedreadships/status/1368598862944993287?s=21
Lilian Billoca: twitter.com/thedreadships/status/1435734663360884742?s=21
The women of Britain’s air transport auxiliary: twitter.com/thedreadships/status/1447682118704840707?s=21
The WRENs who worked out how to hunt u-boats: twitter.com/thedreadships/status/1455673996180135939?s=21

Mary Lady Heath, aviator

How about looking at your family history for what the women in your family have done - ie during the war etc? The one woman always on my list of people I look up to is my granny, she upped and left home at the start of WW2 and moved so many times according to where she was needed and where the work was. Geographically my working life has mirrored hers, completely by chance. She died when I was very young but she has always been and will remain an inspiration to me.

And Helen Bamber: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Bamber

@ButtockUp

Edith Cavell. Trained as a nurse . Earned a medal for her work in TB hospital. Volunteered to work in Belgium ( I think) and helped WW1 soldiers escape back to Britain. Was executed in 1915 when her efforts were discovered. Various shrines to her in Norwich and Maidstone.

Very, very, VERY problematic and controversial though. She was already working in the hospital in Belgium before the war and returned to it after it had been taken over by the Red Cross. She was fully aware that as a Red Cross nurse she had to be utterly impartial - and she broke that by assisting Allied soldiers to escape. When caught, she admitted everything, thus putting other people at risk - and very nearly jeopardising the future of the relatively new Red Cross because of her actions. Germany threatened to not allow the RC to operate any field hospitals at all because she had gone against their stated neutrality. So she might have saved the lives of a hundred or so soldiers, but she nearly caused the deaths of thousands more.

Jane Austin
Bronte Sisters
Vera Britain

Bess of Hardwick

Ellen MacArthur

Joy adams
I can’t think of the song born free without welling up

Ruby Bridges, who the first African American child to desegregate an elementary school in New Orleans (there is a well known photograph of her, being escorted by federal agents). Last year I read Ruby Bridges Goes to School, with my 8yo DD, it's a book aimed at children. Also worth googling Barbara Henry, who was the only teacher in the school who would teach Ruby. Both incredible women, who stood against hatred.

Mrs T. It’s not the fashionable or popular thing to like her or admit to doing so. But an unapologetically strong woman in man’s world that pushed back against the tide of structural rot. Regardless of whether you disagree with her politics, she believed what she believed and was incredibly effective at achieving what she set out to achieved. Again, I expect a lot of predictable sarcastic comments about this, but hey having popular opinions is easy. History will present the narrative differently to how it’s presented today as its was such recent past.

Someone already suggested Thatcher way back in the thread and no one said anything. So fingers crossed you'll live to tell the tale.