The Wizard of Oz is so beloved that everyone knows a lot of what took place on the movie set, including hearing about the fire that harmed Wicked Witch of the West actress Margaret Hamilton. There are women whose histories were completely new, and others who are ingrained in pop culture. Some of my favorite histories included the Las Mariposas sisters, whose story is tragic, but whose lives gave birth to the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women every year on November 25th, and women such as Nzinga and Wu Zetian, who became queens and empresses against the odds, and Frances Glessner Lee, whose hobby created an entire program at Harvard and led to breakthroughs in forensic science-she was even the inspiration behind the character of Jessica Fletcher from Murder, She Wrote. Artwork ©Pénélope Bagieu, Macmillan First Second
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