Mary Boykin Chesnut’s U.S. Civil War diary was published in 1905, almost twenty years after her death. Offering a “vivid picture of a society in the throes of its life-and-death struggle,” she described the war from her perspective as an upper-class Southern slaveowner, but her writing encompassed different classes as well.
In 2011, when the newspaper industry was in crisis, Jill Abramson was the first woman named editor of The New York Times.
Dick Francis openly credited his wife, Mary Margaret, for her contributions to the novels published under his name.
One of the best-known accounts of Australia’s Stolen Generation is Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996), a non-fiction book written by Doris Pilkington Garimara about the escape from such an institution by her mother, Molly Craig, Molly’s half-sister Daisy and their cousin, Gracie.
Historian of women in science
The oldest extant Korean cookbook, written circa 1670 by Lady Jang Gye-hyang, was passed down through generations of her descendants without it ever occurring to any of them that this held more significance than a family recipe book.
In the 1960s, Boston journalists Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole worked to publicise what would become known as the Boston Strangler murders.
In the 1960s, Boston journalists Loretta McLaughlin and Jean Cole worked to publicise what would become known as the Boston Strangler murders.
Song dynasty poet Li Qingzhao wrote in depth about how much she loved alcohol, which was widely deemed inappropriate for a woman, as was the fact that she dared to divorce a man who mistreated her.
In 1970, 60 women employees of Newsweek sued the magazine. Female researchers accused male writers and editors of taking credit for their work, including Lynn Povich, who later wrote a book about the experience, Good Girls Revolt.