The 10 Best What'sHerName Podcast Episodes
1) THE ABOLITIONIST Ellen Garrison
The story goes that the American Civil Rights movement started when Rosa Parks refused to leave her bus seat in 1955. But 89 years before that, Ellen Garrison refused to leave the waiting room at a Ba...Show More
2) THE REBORN Jemima Wilkinson & Publick Universal Friend
Jemima Wilkinson, born in 1752, was a devout Quaker and skilled medical practitioner in colonial Rhode Island. When a typhus outbreak in 1776 left her feverish and near death, she experienced a series...Show More
3) THE LADY NOVELIST Constance Fenimore Woolson
Constance Fenimore Woolson was one of the most popular writers of the 19th century. Though her life was full of drama, excitement and fame, for nearly a hundred years she’s been known only for the sto...Show More
4) THE VISIONARY Hildegard of Bingen
Illumination from the Liber Scivias showing Hildegard receiving a vision and dictating to her scribe and secretary Nine hundred years ago, the young Hildegard of Bingen was given by her parents to th...Show More
5) THE RADICAL Lola Ridge
Lola Ridge Rose Emily Ridge was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1973. After spending her childhood in Australia and New Zealand, she fled an abusive husband for California in 1907. Arriving in America, sh...Show More
6) THE SAGE Gargi Vachaknavi
Are public debates like the feuds we see on Twitter and Facebook a product of modern society? Gargi Vachaknavi has long been remembered in India for her brilliant performance in a public debate 2,700 ...Show More
7) THE SISTERS Jane and Anna Maria Porter
Jane Porter Anna Maria Porter Sisters Jane and Anna Maria Porter were wildly popular writers–among the most widely-read writers in Regency England. (Yes, more popular than Jane Austen!) Their novels...Show More
8) THE REVOLUTIONARY ACTRESS Sahib Gizzatullina
A classic story of a young woman defying her parents to follow her heart, but with a fascinating Russian twist! Sahib Gizzatullina lived for the stage, introducing Russian audiences to theater for the...Show More
9) THE SAINT Margaret Clitherow
Margaret Clitherow’s life – and death – were shaped by the religious upheavals of the Protestant Reformation in Elizabethan (16th century) England. A devoted Catholic in a time and place where Catholi...Show More
10) THE DISAPPEARING WOMAN Adelaide Herrmann
Adelaide Herrmann ruled the stage for fifty years as one the brightest stars of the Golden Age of Magic. After the death of her husband, renowned magician Herrmann the Great, Adelaide took center stag...Show More