On this day
22
September

Anita Augspurg, Anne Lister

Born: Anita Augspurg (1857)
Died: Anne Lister (1840)

Born on this day

22SepBorn 1857169th birthday

Anita Augspurg

Germany’s first woman with a law doctorate fought for women’s suffrage, peace and resistance to the rising far right.

Died on this day

22SepDied 1840186th anniversary of death

Anne Lister

Her coded diaries preserve an unusually detailed account of love between women in nineteenth-century England.