HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHEROES OF HISTORY!
Wow, I can’t believe that a whole year has gone by since I started the Sheroes of History blog on International Women’s Day 2014. I had no idea then how it would unfold, but I am so utterly thrilled with how it has.
In the past 12 months this blog has featured over 70 inspiring Sheroes; amazing women from history including scientists, writers, musicians, revolutionaries, pirates, princesses, warriors, suffragettes and so much more!
Countess Markievicz was a brave woman who fought for Irish independence and was the first woman ever to be elected to the British House of Commons.
Constance Gore-Booth was born on 4th February 1868, the oldest of five children. Her father was a landowner in County Sligo, Ireland.
Constance is most well known for her role in Irish politics, but long before then her first passion was art. In 1892 she went to London to study painting. While there her political beliefs began to take shape and she joined the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). From London she moved to Paris to continue her studies. It was there that she met her soon-to-be husband, a Polish Count.
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