Originally posted on Voyager of History:
Female veterans were officially accepted into the Royal Hospital at Chelsea in 2009 but there was one who arrived in the 1730s. Her name was Christian Davies and she certainly had a story to tell. She lived a life that wasn’t available to most women of the eighteenth century…
The most famous search engine on the web is remembering Justina Siegemund (1636-1705) today. I may have come across her name before but as I conduct my research in Britain, I did not know much about her. Now I know she came from Silesia, a much contested region throughout the centuries. We share the place […]
Read more "Wehemutter Justina Siegemund: a celebrated midwife around 1700"Today Britain celebrates mother’s today. This has its origins in medieval times when on the fourth Sunday of Lent all people were required to return to their mother churches, to the churches of their christening, to their mothers. In the last 100 years this has turned to be increasingly a secular celebration of mothers. In […]
Read more "Mother’s Day Memory"Today, on the International Women’s Day, and four days after an exciting week in Rome, I would like to start a blog series focusing on women poets that lived in Roman before and around 1700, women who may have well inspired my heroine, Margherita Durastanti, women who crated a legacy that has been forgotten or […]
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Margherita Durastanti and her era 