Rebellious Daughter of History #9 By Judy Cox Sarah Parker Redmond (1826-1894) Abolitionist,suffragist and activist Sarah Parker Remond was an African American slavery abolitionist, lecturer and physician. Her anti-slavery campaign, which she began at just 16 years old, took her across America and on to Britain and Europe – where she tirelessly condemned the atrocities […]

Rebellious Daughters of History #8 by Judy Cox Louise Otto Peters (1815-1895): ‘The Lace-makers’ (1840) Born in March 1819 to a middle-class family, Louise Otto-Peters was educated at home by a radical father. After his death, she established herself as a writer to support herself and her sisters, publishing volumes of socially committed novels and […]

Rebellious Daughters of History #7 by Judy Cox The Art of Resistance: Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) Käthe Kollwitz’s artistic work depicts war and revolution and champions the dispossessed. Käthe Schmid was born in Kaliningrad, daughter of a bricklayer. Barred from studying art in her hometown because she was a woman, she moved to Berlin and Munich […]

Rebellious Daughters of History #6 by Judy Cox Larissa Reissner (1895-1926): Writer, soldier and revolutionary Larissa Reissner was born in Lublin, Poland. Between 1903 and 1907, her family was forced to live in exile in Berlin because of her father’s activism. After 1905 Russian Revolution, the family moved to Saint Petersburg Larissa attended St Petersburg […]

Rebellious Daughters of History #5 by Judy Cox Anna Wheeler’s famous appeal Anna Wheeler (1780–1848) was one of the first socialist feminists to speak out in public to demand radical reform. Anna married Francis Massey Wheeler when she was 15 but he was an abusive alcoholic and she later left him. Wheeler’s husband died in […]