This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we look at Winifred Virginia Jackson—Lovecraft's Lost Romance (1976) by R. Alain Everts & George T. Wetzel and reflect on the problems of research and depending too heavily on unreliable sources.

https://deepcuts.blog/2026/04/25/winifred-virginia-jackson-lovecrafts-lost-romance-1976-by-r-alain-everts-george-t-wetzel/

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#OnThisDay, 25 Apr 1990, Violeta Barrios de Chamorro becomes the first woman to be elected President of Nicaragua. She served for six years, stabilising the economy.

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#OnThisDay, 23 Apr 2015, Loretta Lynch is confirmed as Attorney General of the US – the first Black woman to hold the post. It's exactly 143 years after Charlotte E Ray became the first Black woman lawyer in the US.

Read more: https://carvehername.org.uk/charlotte-e-ray-and-143-years-of-progress/

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#OnThisDay, 23 Apr 1872, Charlotte E Ray was admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia (USA). She is the first Black woman to be certified as a lawyer in the USA.

Read more: https://carvehername.org.uk/charlotte-e-ray-and-143-years-of-progress/

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#OnThisDay, 22 April 1969, Bernadette Devlin makes her maiden speech in the House of Parliament in London. An Irish Republican, she had rejected their tradition of abstention in order to take her seat. She remained an MP until 1974.

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#OnThisDay, 21 Apr 1944, the provisional government of France signs into law universal suffrage, granting women the vote.

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#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

The committee had planned to only award the Nobel to Pierre and Henri. Committee member and Swedish mathematician Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler alerted Pierre Curie to the plan. Pierre insisted Marie also receive the prize.

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#OnThisDay, 11 Apr 1913, the Nevill Pavilion in Tunbridge Wells, UK, is destroyed by arson. No-one is injured. Suffragettes are suspected of starting the fire because their leaflets are found nearby, but no-one is ever caught.

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#OnThisDay, 10 Apr 1974, Pauline McGibbon is sworn in as Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, Canada. She was the first woman to hold the role.

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