Today in Poetess History
Literature Topics: Author - Essayist - Journalist - Jurist - Novelist - Poet - Scholar - Writer
Historical Events
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1991-11-21 - Poetess Maria Elene Cruz Varela arrested in Cuba
1991-11-27 - Poetess Maria Elene Cruz Varela sentenced to 2 years (Cuba)
Famous Birthdays
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1485-11-30 - Veronica Gambara, Italian poetess
1583-02-02 - Anna Roemers Visscher, Dutch poetess
1637-11-21 - Catharina Questiers, Dutch poetess (Friend of Abandoned Child)
1762-11-16 - Petronella Moens, Frisian author/poetess
1803-10-25 - Maria van Ackere-Doolaeghe, Flemish poetess (Daisies)
1846-08-25 - Louise J Gautier, French poetess
1853-12-21 - Isolde Kurz, German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter)
1886-09-10 - Hilda Doolittle, US, poetess (imagisten)
1887-09-07 - Edith L Sitwell, English poetess/author (Wheels)
1899-12-09 - Leonie Fuller Adams, US poetess (Those not elected)
1902-04-04 - Louise L de Vilmorin, French poetess/author (Lutin Sauvage)
1906-04-18 - Clara Eggink, [Ebbele], Dutch poetess (Life with JC Bloem)
1907-11-18 - Halldis Vesaas-Moren, Norwegian author/poetess
1915-02-26 - Elisabeth Eybers, South Afr/Dutch poetess (That Woman & Other Verses)
1915-09-24 - Margarita J Aliger, Russian poetess (Zoja) [OS]
1918-11-10 - Oda Blinder, [Yolanda Corsen], Antillean poetess (Doorstep)
1934-11-04 - Judith Herzberg, Dutch poetess/author (Charlotte Life or Theater)
1936-09-17 - Mischa de Vreede, poetess (Our Eternal Hunger)
1943-10-25 - Selly Fernandes, Curacao poetess (Winking with Selly)
1959-06-02 - Lydia Lunch, US singer/poetess (Teenage Jesus, Jerks)
Famous Deaths
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0460-10-20 - Eudocia Aelia Athenais, empress Oostromeinse Rich/poetess, dies
1651-12-06 - Anna Roemers Visscher, Dutch poetess, dies at 68
1711-06-08 - Katharina Lescaille, [Netherlands Sappho], poetess, dies at 61
1784-02-28 - Phillis Wheatly, poetess, dies
1804-11-05 - Elizabeth "Betje" Wolff-Bekker, poetess (Sara Burgerhart), dies at 66
1843-01-04 - Petronella Moens, Frisian author/poetess, dies at 80
1873-09-20 - Lulu Strauss und Torney, German poetess/writer, dies
1902-08-31 - Mathilde Wesendonk, German author/poetess, dies at 73
1917-12-26 - Louise J Gautier, French poetess/daughter of Theophile G, dies at 71
1944-04-05 - Isolde Kurz, German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter), dies at 90
1944-11-06 - Hannah Senesh, Jewish poetess, executed by Nazis in Budapest
1961-09-27 - Hilda Doolittle, US poetess (Bid Me to Live), dies at 75
1972-02-05 - Marianne Moore, US poetess (Pulitzer 1951), dies at 84
1974-10-04 - Anne Sexton, US poetess (Pulitzer 1967), dies at 45
1978-02-22 - Phyllis McGinley, US poetess (Pulitzer 1961), dies at 72
1979-10-06 - Elizabeth Bishop, poetess (North & South, Pulitzer 1956), dies at 68
1988-06-27 - Leonie Fuller Adams, US poetess (High Falcon), dies at 88
