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November 5, 1995 - Episode 464  - Women of Achievement and Herstory

                    compiled by Irene Stuber

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      "Feminist Lucy Stone visited a frontier area of Illinois in 1856 and

observed a wife who slept in an outhouse all winter while her husband had

his bed near the fire in the cabin.  He was punishing her for giving birth to

a girl.  The frontierswoman, whether the frontier was Illinois in 1805 or

Wyoming in 1860, faced all kinds of hardships with courage and determination. 

She is the unsung heroic figure of the settlement of the West -- she, not the

series of Daniel Boones who have been memorialized in poetry and song."

      -- From Sochen, June. _Herstory_. A Record of the American Woman's

Past, second edition.  Sherman Oaks, CA: Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. 1981.

      (This book is out of print and I can't tell you how much I want my own

personal copy.  I was able to get a copy through the Inter-library loan

system and I thank the Ina Dillard Russell Library, Georgia College,

Milledgeville, Georgia, for having the foresight to keep a copy.  June Sochen

is a professor at Northeastern Illinois University.  It is a remarkable

book. The book also has an extensive bibliography.)

11-05 Anniversaries ...........................................

      B. Nov. 5, 1807, Eliza Emily Chappell Porter spent a lifetime organizing

schools in several states. During the Civil War, as part of the sanitary

commission movement, gathered and distributed supplies to Union soldiers and

hospitals.  She joined with the famous Mary Ann Bickerdyke in nursing

soldiers in Gen. Sherman's march through Georgia.

      B. Nov. 5, 1834, Anna Harriette Leonowens, British writer best known as

the governess employed by King Mongkut (Rama IV) of Siam for the

instruction of his children. She was the inspiration for _Anna and the King of

Siam_ and _The King and I_.  

      B. Nov. 5, 1850, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, highly successful writer of popular

novels and poetry who became the center of literary life in New York in the

pre-World War-I years.  Her reputation was made by her _Poems of Passion_

(1883) (which weren't). 

      B. Nov. 5, 1857, Ida Minerva Tarbell, investigative journalist, lecturer,

and chronicler of American industry, recognized as one of the major

journalists of her day, exposed the Standard Oil trust in _History of Standard

Oil Company_,  renowned biographer, especially of Lincoln.  President

Theodore Roosevelt characterized her as a muckraker, a compliment in those

days.

      B. Nov. 5, 1867, Marie Bregendahl, Danish writer of regional literature,

who described accurately and with understanding the life of rural inhabitants

of her country. 

      B. Nov. 5, 1913, Vivien Leigh, Anglo-American actor who won the

Academy Awards for her portrayal of Scarlet in _Gone With the Wind_(1939)

and Blanche in _ Streetcar Named Desire_(1951). She tragically suffered from

manic depression.

      B. Nov. 5, 1917, Jacqueline Auriol, French pilot who often vied with

Jacqueline Cochran as the most accomplished and fastest woman pilot in the

world. JA was one of the first women to break the sound barrier.  Flew the

Concorde.  Working with the Ministere de la Cooperation helped develop aerial

methods to find water for irrigation as well as mapping of plant species,

disease, and other agriculture aids that resulted in her being awarded the

United Nations Ceres medal for her work in "a vision of a world free from

hunger and want."

      Event Nov. 5, 1957, Mary V. Beck is elected the first woman city council

president of the City of Detroit.

      Event Nov. 5, 1974, Elaine Noble* (D-Mass) becomes the first openly

lesbian person to be elected to the state legislature.

      Event 11-05-1987, Rev. Patricia Ann McClurg, a Presbyterian becomes the

first woman to head the National Council of Churches .     

Quotes du jour ................................................

      "Tell me, argue with me, debate it. Rather than disapprove, I will

respect all the more the person that stands up to me in prepared and

reasoned disagreement."

             -- Janet Reno

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      The URLs to the most current weeks' worth of WOA set up on the Web

by Laurie D. T. Mann, the Feminist Webitor, are:

    http://worcester.lm.com/lmann/feminist/achievement.html

The FTPs for Women of Achievement and Herstory being archived by William

Affleck-Asch, are:

       ftp://ftp.eskimo.com/u/f/feminist/

      (or NCFTP  open ftp.eskimo.com cd /u/f/feminist/)

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