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
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