Simone Weil
1909–1943 · Person
Philosopher-mystic who worked the factory lines she wrote about — attention as prayer, affliction faced without consolation, dead at thirty-four.
On these timelines: Women in history, France, Arts and Thoughts, Master, People
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- Second-wave feminism (1963)
- US women win the vote (19th Amendment) (1920)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759)
- Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
- Indira Gandhi's second premiership (1980)
- Indira Gandhi's first premiership (1966)
- Woolf's A Room of One's Own (1929)
- Indira Gandhi (1917)
Around 1909
- Russo-Japanese War (1904)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Mexican Revolution (1910)
- Scott's Terra Nova expedition (1910)
- Boxer Rebellion (1899)
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
- Pop music: the 1900s (1900)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)