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Ellen Wallace Sharples was an English painter specialized in portraits in pastel and in watercolor miniatures on ivory. She exhibited five miniatures at the Royal Academy in 1807, and founded the Bristol Fine Arts Academy in 1844 with a substantial gift.
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Maria Engelbrecht Stokkenbech, also E.M. Stokkenbeck, was a Danish tailor, writer and early feminist who succeeded in earning her own living as a married woman by disguising herself as a man. For about four years in the early 1780s, she travelled across Europe as far as Málaga working as a tailor. Only on her return to Copenhagen in 1784 was her true gender revealed. She managed however to persuade the king to allow her to continue her trade and was authorized to practice as a tailor and hire an apprentice. She reported these events in her short autobiography Det i Mandfolksklæder vidt bereiste Fruentimmer, E.M. Stokkenbeck, som Skrædersvend, Gotfried Jacob Eichstedt, merkværdige Begivenheder paa hendes Reiser til Lands og Vands, i Danmark, Holland, Tydskland, Boben, Polen og Spanien, indtil hendes sidste Ankomst til Kiobenhavn, hvor hendes Kjon blev robet. Udgivet af hende selv.
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