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" a career woman who has survived the hurdle of marriage and maternity encounters a new obstacle : the hostility of men"
Caroline Bird
Her Name is Caroline
* Caroline Beasley
..... FIRST woman to ride a National Hunt meeting winner when Eliogarty won the Christies' 'Foxhunter' Chase
* Caroline Chisholm
born 1808 died 1877
..... Englishwoman who opened the FIRST free labour registry to help women find employment as well as accommodation in Australia. In its first year she found employment for 1400 women and also 600 men as she had extended her service to all unemployed people
* Caroline Dexter and Harriet Clisby
..... founded the FIRST Australian journal produced by women, The Interpreter
* Caroline Downey
..... FIRST full-time "Director of Junk" in Greater Manchester, England in March 1992 when appointed by Oldham Council where she spearheaded the town's waste disposal service. She was a former researcher at Salford University and became responsible for co-ordinating recycling
* Caroline Grace
..... the FIRST female Spitfire pilot when she took to the air in memory of her husband Nick, who had rebuilt the plane as a hobby between 1980 and 1985 but had died tragically in 1988 before she could fly it
* Caroline Guebhard
born 1855 died 1929
..... FIRST woman reporter to go down a mine and the FIRST to conduct investigative interviews designed to reveal the personality. She wrote under the pseudonym of Severine
* Caroline Hamilton, Zoe Hudson, Lucy Roberts and Pam Oliver
..... on March 14th 1997 they set off as part of a 20 strong relay team from Ward Hunt Island to walk to the North Pole and on May 17th 1997 became the FIRST British women to do so. The Polar Relay Team was part of a process that began in the mid-eighties when the American Anne Bancroft joined a team that reached the North Pole using dogs. In 1993 Nicky Swan, wife of Robert Swan who became an OBE in 1995 in recognition of his record-breaking walks to both the North and South Poles, completed the final 100 miles
* Caroline Hamilton
..... in 1848 she wrote The Garden Notebook, the FIRST book by a woman about the cultivation of fruit and vegetables
* Caroline Lucretia Herschel
born March 16th 1750 died January 9th 1848
..... one of the FIRST two women to be elected honorary members of the Royal Astronomical Society. The other one was Mary Somerville. Caroline was 85 years old at the time. She was the sister of William Herschel, the German-born British astronomer who discovered Uranus, and of whom she said " All I am, all I know, I owe to my brother" but she became an exceptional astronomer in her own right. She worked with him but discovered eight comets independently of him in the period 1786 to 1797. In 1828 she received a gold medal from the Royal Astronomical Society and also medals from the Kings of Denmark and Prussia. she was also elected to the Royal Irish Academy. She was also the FIRST woman to receive a salary for scientific work when King George awarded her £50 per year
* Caroline James
..... FIRST woman baggage handler at Manchester Airport, she was a former airline stewardess and made history when she quite her job to join the 500 men handling suitcases
* Caroline Alice Lejeune
born 27th March 1897 died 1973
..... FIRST woman in Britain to write regularly and seriously about films. She was brought up and educated in Manchester and in 1922 became film critic of the Manchester Guardian moving to the Observer six years later. She also contributed to magazines and journals and wrote several books. She retired from the Observer in 1960 after thirty two years and in 1964 published her autobiography. She did not believe in cinema as an art form in its own right but was an enthusiastic champion of the 'quality' tradition of British cinema
* Caroline Nickoll
..... Englishwoman who was the FIRST woman to win the Johnson Prize as the most outstanding student on the accelerated promotion course at the Police Staff College, Bramshill, Hantshire - 1982/83 - when she beat four other women and 27 men from 19 police forces throughout the country
* Caroline Norton
born 1808 died 1877
..... FIRST woman to effectively challenge the laws relating to married women. This led to two important pieces of legislation - the Infant Custody Bill of 1839 and the Divorce Act of 1857. She was a celebrated 19th century poet, society beauty and reformer who captivated the fashionable salons of London with ballads like The Arab's Farewell to his Steed and Not Lost But Gone Before. Her friends included Disraeli, Dickens and Thackeray. In 1837 she wrote The Separation of Mother and Child by the Law of Custody Considered. She outraged Victorian society through an alleged affair with the Prime Minister of the day, Lord Melbourne, and this led to a notorious court case. The charge of adultery was dismissed but she spent the next 22 years seeking justice for herself and her children resulting in the above two pieces of legislation
* Caroline Pullman - Rev
..... FIRST woman chaplain in the Royal Navy when she joined HMS Daedalus at Lee-on-the-Solent in Hantshire in 1990
* Caroline Mary Rudd, Elizabeth Smith Pratt and Mary Hosford
..... FIRST three women to graduate as Bachelors of Arts from Oberlin Collegiate Institute in 1841. It was the FIRST women' s college to admit full-time students - August 25th 1841
* Caroline Spurgeon
..... FIRST woman Professor when she was Chair of English Lit at London University from 1913 to 1929
* Caroline Michaelis de Vasconcelos
born 1851 died 1925
..... German-born Portuguese who was the FIRST woman to be awarded a University chair in Portugal in 1911
* Caroline Walker and Tina Belbin
..... FIRST ever women's bobsleigh team in Britain