Traveler and writer on African topics Margery Freda Perham (1895-1982) was born in Bury, Lancashire (England), on September 6, 1895. It was the youngest of the family - composed by five children and two daughters - of Federico Perham, merchant of wines and his wife, Marion. His grandmother, Maria Anna Needell, was a novelist. Seven children...
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Margery Perham
The sailor Anne Jane Thornton
In the XIXth century there were not infrequent the women's cases that National Portrait Gallery was embarking disguised of sailors ©, London Anne Jane Thornton was born in Gloucestershire (England) in 1817 and she was a daughter of a prosperous merchant. After the death of his mother in 1823, his father moved to Donegal (Ireland) where it opened other one...
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Hu Ming
The eroticism of the Army of the people's republic China This entry had to be brief, like that of most of the painters that I bring somewhere here: a biographical note, a few images and a few linkage to keep on seeing his works. But when I have read on the life of this Chinese artist I have...
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The Accolade
The first group of rock of Saudi Arabia formed by women Saudi Arabia supports a strict control on the women, based on the Islamic prescripts. The women can neither travel alone, nor receive education or medical attention without the authorization of a relative male, like the father or the husband. The laws also prohíben to one...
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Virginia ‘Ginny‘ Fiennes
British polar explorer Photo: web of Transglobe Expedition Ginny Fiennes (1947-2004) was a polar explorer and organizer of expeditions, born in Godalming, Surrey (England). Of young man he committed himself with the baron Ranulph Fiennes (1944), relation that his father tried to avoid sending her to Spain to work like nanny. Uselessly, since to his return, it resumed his relation...
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Clärenore Stinnes
In car across the continents Clärenore (Egg white) Stinnes it came to the world on January 21, 1901 in Mülheim (Ruhr, Germany) and she was a daughter of the multimillionaire Hugo Stinnes, proprietor, between others, of an important motorcars factory. In his book In car across the continents (Publishing Youth, 1930), Clara Stinnes starts by saying...
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The Association for the Rationality in Dressing of Lady Harberton
At the end of the XIXth century there was in England a movement to rationalize the way of dressing, especially of the women The Association for the Rationality in Dressing (Rational Dress Society) was created in 1881 in London by Florence Wallace Pomeroy (1843-1911) known as Lady Harberton, for the purpose of liberating the woman of...
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