by Historical Heroines- 100 Women You Should Know About (retail) (epub)
The Unknown Woman
I am your ancestor. I am everyone’s ancestor, the one history never considered significant enough to record or important enough to educate so that I might leave behind diaries of my own.
I am a street girl from Brazil; a homeless woman from India; an indigenous tribal leader from the ‘new world’; a prostitute from Thailand.
I am the peasant thrown in an unmarked grave; the midwife and wise woman persecuted for being a witch, whose healing skills were lost to the patriarchy of medicine; an artist, sculptor and musician whose talents were neither given training nor recognition. I am just the mother, sister, daughter whose small acts of heroism and bravery will never be known – the housewife who shielded the persecuted in war or fed the starving during crisis.
Maybe I was a rebel, a heroine or a villain but only the lucky or truly unusual have been given the rare honour of memory. I shouldn’t need to be a hero to have a name and identity.
I am many and I am none for I have no name.
There is his story and there is her story and without both of them we will never know the true story.
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