Why have intelligent women who defied convention been silenced from the pages of history?

I have just watched the BBC production of the Secret Diaries of Anne Lister. I recommend that you watch it because it finally gives you a woman who did what we do in our power circles, lived life on her terms. I agree with Sue Perkins, the narrator, that it is sad that bright, capable, strong, independent women have been wiped from the pages of history. Jack Holland's book "Misogyny" is full of independent women being killed just because they didn't do what women were expected to do during their day. And this is still happening. I feel that my struggles in publishing "The Silent Female Scream" is part of the "conspiracy of silence" as Sue Perkins put it. Women who write about, speak about, and do it their way, regardless of what others think get silenced, and if they scream in protest, they get silenced even further. During Anne Lister's day they would've been locked up in an asylum or in the attic away from society.  Today they get guilt tripped or just ignored.

Claim some time to watch this remarkable woman's story and draw from her energy of entitlement to live life your way!