| 11-05 TABLE of CONTENTS:
Herstory
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTES by
Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Janet Reno.
Herstory excerpt...
"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.
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11-05 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 11-05-1807, Eliza Emily Chappell Porter,
spent a lifetime organizing schools in several states. During the Civil
War gathered and distributed supplies to Union soldiers and hospitals.
She joined with Mary Ann Bickerdyke in nursing soldiers in Gen. Sherman's
march through Georgia.
B. 11-05-1834, 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. 11-05-1850, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, highly
sucessful 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. 11-05-1857, Ida Minerva Tarbell, 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.
B. 11-05-1867, Marie Bregendahl, Danish writer
of regional literature, who described accurately and with understanding
the life of rural inhabitants of her country.
B. 11-05-1913, Vivien Leigh, Anglo-American
actor who won the Academy Awards for her portrayal of Scarlet in Gone
With the Wind (1939) and Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire
(1951). Tragically suffered from manic depression.
B. 11-05-1917, 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 11-05-1957, 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 .
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QUOTES DU JOUR
WILCOX, ELLA WHEELER:
"To sin by silence
when we should protest makes cowards out of men."
--
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
RENO, JANET:
"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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