Pioneering feminist Monica Storrs
Rochester’s Pioneering Feminist goes to Canada Monica Melanie Storrs (February 12, 1888 – December 14, 1967) This is the story of an amazing woman who “lived her life in a […]
Jane – Britain’s WW2 ‘secret weapon’!
Was a Rochester woman – Chrystabel Leighton-Porter of 115 City Way, Rochester, was the curvaceous model for ‘Jane’ who, during WW2, appeared six days a week in a strip cartoon […]
Evelyn Dunbar 1906 – 1960 – artist and “insistent feminist”
This is an account of the ‘local-life’ of Evelyn Dunbar – an outstanding young woman artist / illustrator who lived and partly trained in Medway, and who documented through her art the […]
