Re-enacting history: Women in the shadows

Name of the female historic character
Lilian Disney

Carla Redondo Porto, Raúl Pérez Agra · 21 febrero 2018 21:37

Name of the male historic character
Walt Disney

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As in many other stories of important people in which the woman was in the background, Lillian Disney was one of them. Her husband, Walt Disney, and she loved each other very much. Few know that Lillian was the one who in 1928 (already created Walt Disney Studios) chose the name of Mickey since Walt wanted to put him Mortimer. Walt adored her and that's why he had all his proposals in mind. When they got married they had a daughter and later they adopted another. Two big ones of the animation that follow today present their most famous caricature, Mickey Mouse.

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Name of the female historic character
Maruja Mallo

Alejandra García Fernández · 28 febrero 2018 19:19

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Margaret Keane

Celia Corral Noguera, Rafael Barbosa Silva · 21 febrero 2018 17:35

Name of the male historic character
Walter Keane

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Margaret and Walter Keane were important in the art field because Margaret painted the famouse pictures of kids with big eyes (that became famouse at the sixties) and Walter took the whole merit.

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Martha Coston

Brais Lado Rodríguez, Laura de la Torre González · 23 febrero 2018 13:58

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Benjamin Franklin Coston

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Martha Coston married Benjamin Franklin Coston a promising inventor, at age 19 he was supervisor of a pyrotechnic laboratory, excessive exposure to unprotected chemicals caused a rapid deterioration of his health he died at age 26.
Martha Coston faced her widowhood in charge of four children at age 21, two years later her mother and two of her children died.
Martha Coston found herself without money to support her family and decided to develop an invention that her husband had not managed to complete until he got the patent. The idea was to create a flare that, when exploding, spilled several colors to communicate different messages through combinations of light signals.
She is a shadow figure because the project she did with her husband's idea was signed in the name of her deceased husband because at that time they did not let the women sign their name, only the men could sign. When that law disappeared, the honors went to Martha Coston but at that time she was very old.

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Name of the female historic character
Zelda Fitzgerald

Daniel Martos Leal, Lucía Rodríguez Lema · 23 febrero 2018 16:32

Name of the male historic character
Francis Scott Fitzgerald

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The history collects very little datas about Zelda: only her biography and how she was part of the life of her husband, Scott. However, the history has a lot of information about Scott and gives him a lot of merit for his work, although she was his inspiration in many of his successes. In addition, even though with her consent, Zelda's husband used numerous quotes from her diary in his books.
In the only novel she wrote, "Save me the waltz," she spoke of the struggle to earn the respect of others on her own merits and to establish herself independently of her husband, through the voice of the character Alabama Beggs. Due to the similarity between the fictitious couple in her book and the Fitzgeralds themselves, Scott forced her to eliminate the parts that contained material that he wanted to use in his works.

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Geography and History of Ames

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