Humorous Biographies

A Women's History Etext

Humor alert.....

These humorous biographies, written by Irwin Leslie Gordon about 1910, serve as both a catalog of the women who were well known at that time, and examples of 1910ish male humor about women and the women's movement.

Take with a grain of salt, please.

Credits: The biographies in this section were extracted from Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date: Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be, edited by Irwin Leslie Gordon, about 1910. I've broken the list into several sections for easier reading online.

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Part of a collection of etexts on women's history produced by Jone Johnson Lewis. Editing and formatting © 1999-2003 Jone Johnson Lewis.