A to Z of Inspirational Women

Hannah_Alumni
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March is Women's History Month and I thought, very much like The Author Game, we name inspirational women, but this time, we go from A to Z and give a fact about them. 

I'll start;

Audrey Hepburn. An inspiration in the movie world but during World War Two, she helped raise money for the Dutch Resistance through illegal dance performances called "black evenings". As well as carry messages and food to downed British Pilots. 

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  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    Charlotte Bronte. One of the most notable authors of the "classics" <3 
  • durhamjaide2001
    durhamjaide2001 Scope Member Posts: 13,809 Championing
    This was good timing you set this post up on international women's day @Hannah_Scope
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    Thank you <3 Do you have an inspirational woman for the letter D @durhamjaide2001? :) 
  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 9,713 Scope Online Community Coordinator
    It's got to be Dolly Parton!
  • Hannah_Alumni
    Hannah_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,866 Championing
    Emmeline Pankhurst. One of the leading women in the suffragette movement for women to have the right to vote! 
  • AutisticPenguinLover
    AutisticPenguinLover Online Community Member Posts: 16 Listener

    Grace Hopper - Hopper earned her Ph.D. in mathematics, becoming one of the very few women to hold such a degree. She went on to help "develop a compiler that was a precursor to the widely used COBOL language" for computers, and she became a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy.

  • Remina
    Remina Online Community Member Posts: 277 Empowering

    Hilda Hewlett - The first British woman to earn a pilots license and then go on to open the first flying school in the UK!

  • Albus_Scope
    Albus_Scope Posts: 9,713 Scope Online Community Coordinator

    Isabelle Eberhardt, (1877–1904) was a Swiss explorer and writer. Born in Geneva, Switzerland, she was fluent in six languages by the time she was 16. As a teenager, she published short stories using the male name Nicolas Podolinsky. Having moved to Algeria with her mother when she was 20, she decided to wear men's clothing, convert to Islam and became fluent in Arabic. She later moved back to Paris to try and become a writer. A widow hired her to investigate the death of her husband, the Marquis de Mores, in North Africa, so Isabelle returned there once more.

    Isabelle explored the Sahara Desert while dressed as a man, using the name Si Mahmoud Saadi, and became a skilled horsewoman. Both Algerian and French authorities tried to hire her as a spy during her time in North Africa. In 1901 a man tried to assassinate her. Isabelle suspected the French were behind the attempt. She survived and kept his weapon, a sabre (a type of sword), as a trophy. She later fell in love with an Algerian soldier, whom she married. After her death in a flash flood, aged only 27, many of the stories she had written during her life were published.

    Copy and pasted, but I thought it was super interesting. :)

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 3,875 Championing
    edited July 2024
    Jacqueline du Pré

    Jacqueline Mary du Pré OBE (26 January 1945 – 19 October 1987) was a British cellist, considered by many as one of the greatest of all time. Achieving mainstream popularity at a young age, du Pré won Britain's most prestigious cello award at age 11, made her adult debut at 17, and became a fully established artist by 20. At 21, she married the acclaimed conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim, forming a celebrated musical couple.

    Du Pré performed with leading symphonic orchestras worldwide and recorded the entire cello repertoire. Her flourishing career was tragically cut short by multiple sclerosis, forcing her to stop performing at 27. She lived another 15 years, during which she continued to teach, ultimately passing away at 42.

    Du Pré's musical legacy is renowned for her passionate and emotive playing and she remains an influential figure in the world of classical music.

    (Wikipedia)

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