11-12/14-94 Women of Achievement and Herstory

    I am going to be out-of-town for several days so yesterday and

today am posting advance anniversaries: 

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B. 11-12-1651, Juane Ines de La Cruz, Mexican poet-nun who had been

all but hidden away from public knowledge until recently. Commemorated

as the first feminist of Spanish America.  This amazing intellect had to

become a nun to survive in a civilization that forced women into

marriage. The church eventually made her sell her 4,000 volume library

and give up her desire for knowledge.

B. 11-12-1751, Margaret Molly Corbin, revolutionary war shero who was

near her husband at a battle when he was killed (women were on the

battlefields of the war both as participants and as water, food, and

munitions suppliers) and she immediately took over the gun until she

was wounded by enemy fire. Disabled she was granted a soldier's half-

pay as a pension, was considered a full member of the military until

mustered out in 1783. Margaret Corbin was listed on military rolls until

April 1783.

B. 11-12-1815, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, remarkable feminist writer and

philosopher. Along with Susan B. Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt,

Stanton makes up the most influencial trio in our American battle for

women's rights.  With Lucretia Mott in 1848, Cady-Stanton organized the

first women's rights convention in American herstory. For the next 54

years, she was the movement's principle leader organizer, leader,

theorist, and writer.  It was her idea to preserved the early women's

movement herstory in the first three volumes of the monumental

_History of Woman Suffrage_ (starting in 1881) which she wrote along

with Anthony and the remarkable Matilda Gage.

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Event 11-13-1931: Arkansas' Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway appointed to

the US Senate to fill the seat of her late husband.  In 1932 she became

the first woman to be elected to the Senate in her own right.  She was

re-elected in 1938.  She introduced an Equal Rights Amendement.

B. 11-13-1938, Jean Seber, tragic American-born international film star

who was systematically defamed and hounded into suicide for an alleged

interracial relationship. 

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B. 11-14-1805, Fanny Mendelssohn, a brilliant composer but an obediant

daughter so we'll never know how much was her brother's work and

how much Fanny's.  Her early works were published under Felix's name

because of family opposition to a woman being so notorious as to

publish.  Although there are a large number of works recognized as

hers and published under her name after her marriage, it is suspected

that much has never been found or published....or seperated from

Felix's.  Felix also said he often consulted with Fanny on his own

compositions. Queen Victoria once sang his very popular _Halien_ in

Felix's presence to honor him, but he blushingly admitted that Fanny

had written it.

B. 11-14-1813, Louise Van der Schrieck, superior-provinical of the

Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur who oversaw the starting of about 50

parochial schools in the early US.

B. 11-14-1884, Camille A. Gutt, international banker, headed the

International Monetary Fund 1946-51.

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