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      Here I decided to put my current most favorite collections, which can consist of postcards sets to make it easier for people who want to help me collect them all.

     For now all-time-favorites are:

  • <IN PROCESS> 'Fantastically Great Women' by Kate Pankhurst [it was mentioned in my post on the forum about these and similar sets, and I realize that I want it too xD]
  • <FULLY COLLECTED> 'Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls' by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo 
  • <FULLY COLLECTED> 'Women in Science' and 'Women in Art' by Rachel Ignotofsky [check an interview with her on postcrossing blog!
  • <ALSO INTERESTED IN, BUT LESS> 'Women who dared' Vol.1&2 [Pomegranate Publishers], 'The Medieval women' set, 'Women in sports' by Rachel Ignotofsky
left - photo from rachelignotofskydesign.com; right - photo from www.steamkids.com.au


Full list of women in 'Fantastically Great Women' by Kate Pankhurst
  • I have:  • Maria Sibylla Merian • Marie Curie • Katia Krafft • Rosalind Franklin • Emmeline Pankhurst • Boudicca • Flora Drummond • Valentina Tereshkova • Mary Shelley • Elizabeth Magie (expecting)
  • I don't have:  • Coco Chanel • Pocahontas • Josephine Baker • Lotte Reiniger • Rosa Parks • Noor Inayat Khan • Mary Anning • Jane Austin • Amelia Earhart • Elizabeth Blackwell • Hatshepsut • Annette Kellerman • Janko Tabei • Harriet Tubman • Mary Wollstonecraft • James Barry • Qiu Jin • Rosa May Billinghurst • Sayyida al Hurra • Katherine Johnson • Agent Fifi • Madam C.J. Walker • Gertrude Ederle • Ada Lovelace • Sophie Blanchard • The Matchgirls • Sacagawea • Frida Kahlo • Mary Seacole • Anne Frank

Full list of remarkable women from 'Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls' by Elena Favilli and Francesca Cavallo - All finished too!

Creators: • Frida Kahlo; • The Bronte Sisters; • Julia Child • Nina Simone • Zaha Hadid • Xian Zhang • Ada Lovelace • Maud Stevens Wagner • Maria Callas • Millo Castro Zaldarriaga
Leaders:• Nanny of the Maroons • Queen Elizabeth I • Fadumo Dayib • Yaa Asantewaa • Jingu • Hatshepsut • Lakshmi Bai • Hillary Rodham Clinton • Michelle Obama • Eufrosina Cruz
Pioneers: • Sylvia Earle • Ann Makosinski • Jane Goodall • Alek Wek • Maria Sibylla Merian • Balkissa Chaibou • Wang Zhenyi • Mae C. Jemison • Cholita Climbers • Maria Reiche
Champions: • Yursa Mardini • Maya Gabeira • Wilma Rudolph • Serena and Venus Williams • Mary Kom • Alfonsina Strada • Amna Al Haddad • Misty Copeland • Simone Biles • Ashley Fiolek
Warriors: • Sonita Alizadeh • Claudia Ruggerini • Malala Yousafzai • Manal Al-Sharif • Maya Angelou • Rosa Parks • Anna Politkovskaya • Harriet Tubman • Miriam Makeba • Irena Sendlerowa

Full list of women-scientists in 'Women in Science' by Rachel Ignotofsky [useful link - Rachel lists her sources for the set on her website]
  • Hypatia • Maria Sibylla Merian • Wang Zhenyi • Mary Anning • Ada Lovelace • Elizabeth Blackwell • Hertha Ayrton • Karen Horney • Nettie Stevens • Florence Bascom • Marie Skłodowska-Curie • Mary Agnes Chase • Lise Meitner • Lillian Gilbreth • Emmy Noether • Edith Clarke • Marjory Stoneman Douglas • Alice Ball • Gerty Cori • Jean Beauchamp Procter • Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin • Barbara McClintock • Maria Goeppert-Mayer • Grace Hopper • Rachel Carson • Maryam Mirzakhani • May-Britt Moser • Mae Jemison • Katia Kraft • Elizabeth Blackburn • Sau Lan Wu • Jocelyn Bell Burnell • Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard • Patricia Bath • Valentina Tereshkova • Sylvia Earle • Jane Goodall • Annie Easley • Vera Rubin • Esther Ledeberg • Rosalyn Yalow • Rosalind Franklin • Jane Cooke Wright • Katherine Johnson • Gertrude Elion • Mamie Phipps Clark • Hedi Lamarr • Chien-Shiung Wu • Dorothy Hodgkin • Rita Levi-Montalcini

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