Women Writers Posters & Prints, pg 4/10
for the language arts, social studies, history, art and science classrooms and home schoolers.

Marguerite Durand
b. 1-24-1864; France
d. 3-16-1936

Marguerite Durand was a French actress who turned to journalism after a failed marriage, and then became a women's rights activist after covering the Congrès Féministe International in 1896. Her daily newspaper, La Fronde, was a successor to Hubertine Auclert's La Citoyenne.

• Marguerite Durand (1864-1936): "La Fronde" féministe, ou, "Le Temps" en jupons (Chemins de la mémoire)

George Eliot
b. 11-22-1819
b. 12-22-1880

George Eliot was the pen name of Victorian author Mary Anne Evans. Her novels, known for their realism and psychological insight, were set in provincial England.

Poster Text: So year after year, Silas Marner had lived in this solitude, his guineas rising in the iron pot, and his life narrowing and hardening itself more and more into a mere pulsation of desire and satisfaction that had no relation to any other being. His life had reduced itself to the functions of weaving and hoarding, without any contemplation of and end towards which the functions tended.

• Great British Writers poster series
• George Eliot at Amazon.com

Anne Frank
b. 6-12-1929; Frankfurt am Main, Germany
d. Feb/March, 1945; Bergen-Belsen Camp

“I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.”

• more Anne Frank posters
• more Heroes of the 20th Century posters
• Judaism posters

Margaret Fuller
b. 5-23-1810; Cambridge, MA
d. 6-19-1850; ship wreck off Fire Isl., NY

Margaret Fuller was a women's rights activist, journalist, and Transcentalist. She was also an educator, bringing women together for "conversations" meant to compensate for the lack of formal educaton for women. Fuller was the New York Tribunes first woman editor (1844), and also it's first woman foreign correspondent. It was on her return to the US that she died in a ship wreck.

Margaret Fuller quotes:
• “Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.”
• “Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.”
• “Nature provides exceptions to every rule.”
• “The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.”

• The Portable Margaret Fuller
• Women Who Dared I composite poster