A recent article on Dorothea Lange with her signature photo of “Migrant Mother” prompted us to write this month’s enewsletter on two women photographers: Frances Benjamin Johnston and Dorothea Lange.
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As in every other field of endeavor, television also has its women pioneers. Characters on television, particularly women characters, evolved as society evolved.
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Would you consider composing music to be a traditionally men’s field? Surprisingly, over the centuries it has been difficult for women to succeed in this male-dominated field. Not that women didn’t have the ability or passion for this endeavor. This month we feature two dedicated women composers: Amy Marcy Cheney Beach and Florence Beatrice Smith Price.
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Two feature films and one documentary released in 2019 have featured women who are among those profiled in our book. The film titles are Judy, Harriet and Miss America By Day, whose subjects are Judy Garland, Harriet Tubman and Marilyn Van Derbur Atler, respectively. Let’s learn a little about each of these outstanding women.
Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and lived in Philadelphia. Prior to the Civil War, she is estimated to have gone back to Maryland nineteen times and rescued 300 people from slavery.
Toni Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, as well as the Nobel Prize in Literature. The first black woman of any nationality to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, her citation reads “who in novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import, gives life to an essential aspect of American reality.” As a tribute to Morrison who died in August of this year at age 88, we feature other women who have won the Pulitzer Prize: Edith Wharton and Margaret Mitchell. The Pulitzer Prizes were established by newspaper journalist Joseph Pulitzer. They honor excellence in writing, the arts, drama and music.
Writer Edith Wharton wrote novels, short stories and plays; she became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. That occurred in 1921 for her novel The Age of Innocence.
The arts, including dance, are an important part of our culture. Women have innovated in dance theory, founded whole new schools of dance and thrilled us with their beauty and grace. Who can forget Ginger Rogers who did everything Fred Astaire did, except backwards and in high heels? Or the beautiful ballet of Maria Tallchief? In this month’s ENewsletter we profile two women who brought the art of dance to new levels: Ruth St. Denis and Judith Jamison.
Ruth St. Denis began acting and dancing in vaudeville and musical comedies when she was in her teens. In 1906, she premiered her first dance work in New York City; she incorporated Asian art and dance into her performance.
