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today in women's herstory-17 may
May 17
This Day in Women's History
1794 – Anna Brownell Jameson, English writer
1836 – Virginie Loveling, Belgian writer and poet
1838?: Mary Edwards Bryan born (lawyer, wife of William Jennings Bryan, clubwoman)
1863 – Rosalía de Castro publishes Cantares Gallegos, the first book in the Galician language
1873 – Dorothy Richardson, English writer
1874: Bertha Kalich born (actress)
1889 – Dorothy Gibson, American actress and survivor of RMS Titanic (d. 1946)
1891 – Princess Alexandra, Duchess of Fife
1903: Lena Levine born (birth control activist)
1911 – Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress
1918 – Birgit Nilsson, Swedish soprano
1950 – Valeria Novodvorskaya, Russian politician, dissident, founder and chairwoman of the Democratic Union party
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/05calendar/a/0517calendar.htm
