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FEMALE FIRSTS

From the first female war reporter to the lady who swam the channel, history has seen some truly remarkable women.

• Ghazou became ruler of China (195BC)
• Juliana Morell earned a doctorate (1608)
• Laura Bassi taught at a European university (1732)
• Laura Bassi, first female university lecturer
• Nellie Bly frontline war reporter (1885)
• Charlotte Cooper won an Olympic gold medal (1900)
• Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize in Physics (1903). She also won the chemistry prize (1911)
• Raymonde de Laroche received a pilot’s licence (1910)
• Countess Constance Markiewicz was elected to the Commons (1918)
• Edith Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1921)
• Gertrude Ederle swam the English Channel (1926)
• Amelia Earhart flew solo across the Atlantic Ocean (1928)
• Josephine Baker became the first African-American woman to star in a major motion picture (1934)
• Muriel Box won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, for The Seventh Veil (1946); Bodil Ipsen won the Palme d'Or, for The Red Meadows, the same year