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:
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:
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