RWS Fall Newsletter
The Latest News, Recommendations, and more!
Remarkable Women Stories celebrates and amplifies the lives and accomplishments of women throughout history. The RWS Newsletter is a round up of what the RW Team has been up to lately.
The recent harvest moon and brilliant fall leaves tell us the end of the year is approaching and it’s time to plan for 2025, even as we look back on a busy six months.
In the spring and summer, we focused on promoting our first book: Remarkable Women: Reclaiming Their Stories at several well-attended events at libraries, bookstores and community events.
Gift Alert: Remarkable Women: Reclaiming Their Stories now available in paperback!
Fall is getting off to a great start with the debut of the softcover edition of Remarkable Women: Reclaiming Their Stories at the Norwalk Public Library's 8th Annual Book and Author Festival on Nov. 2, 2024. We were so pleased to be part of this wonderful community tradition with more than 60 authors from all genres and all over Connecticut.
Priced at $22.95, or $20 when purchased at an event, the release of the paperback edition means our stories will be even more accessible and affordable. This beautifully illustrated book is the perfect holiday gift for every remarkable woman, and anyone who is passionate about history. All profits support our nonprofit organization, research, and other projects.
Our upcoming second book, Remarkable Women: Thirty Under 40, will feature an array of extraordinary women who changed our world before they turned 40.
The Latest / Breaking News
The blog keeps growing!
Remarkable Women Stories began with the names of about a dozen women two years ago. Now the list is closing in on 375 names. The list of future posts includes women from all walks of life and across generations, from the past as well as women actively pursuing their passions and making remarkable contributions to our world today. At this point, Alice has written about 60 women whose stories are shared right here on Substack.
Pictured above are Bertha Benz, Frances Perkins, Eunice Hunton Carter, and Gertrude Ederle
We’ll be in Dublin, Ireland to kick off International Women’s Month in early March 2025 with the first Remarkable Women Summit. RW Advisory Board member Jill Doyle is hosting the event and our newest producer, Alicia Godmasch, is the lead event producer. We’ll videotape this event to promote and secure other events in Europe and beyond. More details coming soon!
Alice and Jane recently signed a contract to produce RWS’s first ‘work-for-hire’ film project to raise awareness for the National Association of Women Artists, which was founded in 1889 by women artists who were forbidden to display their art in public. NAWA’s mission fits perfectly with ours. Stay tuned! More on that project in the next newsletter. (This project will be managed outside the purview of the RWP nonprofit organization).
Jane attended the American Film Market in Las Vegas this week to pitch and promote both the European and American versions of the RW documentary series. She met with our Polish production partners at ORKA in Warsaw, Poland who are helping us develop the EU version of the Remarkable Women: Out of the Shadows global TV series.
Alice presented a program on remarkable women at Learning in Retirement in Stamford, CT.
We're thrilled that the theme for Women's History Month 2025 is "Moving Forward Together! Women Educating and Inspiring Generations." It's a wonderful articulation of our mission at the Remarkable Women Project reflected in the sharing of our stories here on our blog and our social media posts. And 2025 will be a milestone year as the 125th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote in the United States.
Remarkable Recommendations
Check out these books from friends of the RW Project!
Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II by Elyse Graham
This month, Alice moderated a discussion and interviewed Elyse Graham, author of Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II, at the Darien Community Association in Darien, CT. One of the scholars in the book, Adele Kibre, is also featured here on the Remarkable Women Stories blog.
If you are a fan of history, historical fiction or fiction -- which covers just about everyone -- this book is a thriller, a historical account and a character driven novel rolled into one. Written in a novelistic style, the book uncovers a little-known part of World War II in which librarians, scholars and academics were recruited by the Library of Congress to be an elite intelligence unit in Europe.
Or to put it another way, Book and Dagger introduces us to the “least glamorous people for the world’s most glamorous profession”. The result is a story that qualifies as “history’s greatest spy thriller”.
Start With Vision: Presence. Communication. Relationships. Mindset. Courage. Confidence. – Seven Tenets for Success.
by Leslie Grossman
RW Project Board Member Leslie Grossman has published a compelling new book that we recommend to all of our readers. Start with Vision is a concise, well-written handbook for anyone looking for ways to clear the way to unlimited success.
“Success starts with vision. When you know where you are going, when you have a vision of your destination, when you can see it, you can succeed. Start with Vision is the road map to building a concrete vision; and the tenets to put into action to travel a direct route to your own unique idea of success.”
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