All,
I just ran across a short Wikipedia article I wrote a couple years ago, and thought
I'd share it. It's a bio of Frances Fuller Victor:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Fuller_Victor
Victor was generally known as a novelist of the 19th century American West, but she also
ghost-wrote tremendous quantities of history for publisher Hubert Howe Bancroft, without
attribution. She was a feminist:
"But just so long as women content themselves to be parasites, no matter how graceful
or beautiful in their dependence, so long will they degrade the idea of work for their
less fortunate sisters, make more thorny the path of the honestly struggling of their sex,
reduce the wages that woman receives for her work, and perpetuate their own moral
enslavement" ([Dorothy D.], "Poor Ladies," San Francisco Daily Morning
Call, April 25, 1875, 1).
Another article that may be of interest is Pat Barker's bio. Sue Gardner started the
article a while back, and several of us have chipped in along the way; I think it's a
pretty strong bio, about a compelling woman. Barker is an award-winning, contemporary
English novelist, whose work centers around memory, trauma, survival and recovery:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Barker
I thought, along with the more serious deliberations, it might be nice to occasionally
share interesting Wikipedia content we've worked on related to gender. If you've
worked on something that may be of interest to this list, please share your links too!
-Pete