{"id":379,"date":"2018-11-08T13:08:54","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T13:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/?p=379"},"modified":"2018-11-08T13:08:54","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T13:08:54","slug":"digging-into-the-past-the-forgotten-women-of-wakefield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/2018\/digging-into-the-past-the-forgotten-women-of-wakefield\/","title":{"rendered":"Digging into the past &#8211; the Forgotten Women of Wakefield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">On a sunny day in November several members met at St John\u2019s Churchyard in Wakefield to tidy up and plant bulbs around the grave of Louisa Fennell.\u00a0 <a href=\"\/wakefield\/files\/IMG_7383a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-380 alignright\" src=\"\/wakefield\/files\/IMG_7383a-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/IMG_7383a-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/IMG_7383a-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/IMG_7383a-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/IMG_7383a.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">Louisa (1847\u20131930) was an English watercolour painter, best known as a painter of landscapes and townscapes in the West Riding of Yorkshire, particularly Wakefield, her home town. <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri;font-size: medium\">As part of the Forgotten Women of Wakefield project a blue plaque to celebrate her life and work will be placed in St John\u2019s Square. Find out more about the Forgotten Women of Wakefield project we are actively involved in supporting <a href=\"https:\/\/dreamtimecreative.wordpress.com\/2018\/05\/22\/forgotten-women-of-wakefield-projects-2018-2019\/\">here<\/a> .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wakefield\/files\/IMG_7390a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-381 alignleft\" src=\"\/wakefield\/files\/IMG_7390a-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/IMG_7390a-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/IMG_7390a-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/IMG_7390a-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/wakefield\/files\/IMG_7390a.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a sunny day in November several members met at St John\u2019s Churchyard in Wakefield&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":520,"featured_media":380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Digging into the past - the Forgotten Women of Wakefield | News | Blog | Events | Wakefield and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Wakefield and District : Blog &amp; News : Digging into the past - the Forgotten Women of Wakefield : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of Wakefield and District . 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