| 11-10 TABLE of CONTENTS:
Farm Women
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTES by
Helen Cunliffe and Naomi Thornton.
Farm Women
"In 1875 farmers comprised
about 48 percent of the U.S. population. Now they were moving westward,
seeking new land for new farms, opening up the Western frontiers, settling
the prairies. The Homestead Act had a great impact on this exodus; and
the farm wife pressed westward, shoulder to shoulder with her husband.
"She helped fight off Indians, claim jumpers,
and grasshoppers. She coped with prairie fires, plagues, blizzards and
tornadoes, as well as epidemics of smallpox, cholera, typhoid fever, diphtheria,
and malaria.
"She rose at dawn to stoke the fire in the hearth
of the cook stove, haul water, cook breakfast, and bake the day's bread.
She made her own soap and candles, helped her husband 'break' new sod and
plant new crops, fed livestock, milked cows, and educated her own children
until schools were built.
"Her babies (she bore an average of 6 to 8 of
which 3 - 5 might grow to adulthood) were delivered without benefit of
a doctor."
-- from an article by
Marjory F. Hart, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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11-10 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 11-10-1858, Selma Lagerlof, Swedish writer,
winner of Nobel Prize for Literature in 1909 although her crowning achievement,
the powerful Lowenskolds trilogy wasn't written until the 1920's. She authored
Antikrists Mirakler (1897) and Jerusalem (2 vols, 1901-2)
among other works leading to the Nobel. She published three volumes of
memoirs and autobiography.
B. 11-10-1865, Mabel Loomis Todd who with
Thomas W. S. Higginson prepared many of Emily Dickinson's poems for their
first publication. After ED's death, her sister Lavinia discovered some
900 poems no one seemed to know existed and enlisted the aid of Todd who
in turn enlisted Higginson, a literary man of the day to whom ED had sent
several of her poems for consideration.
According
to editor Thomas H. Johnson whose publication of the poems in 1955 returned
her poetry to as close to its original form as possible: "Higginson's
problem was compounded by the fact that during (ED's) lifetime he was never
convinced that she wrote poetry... together (Todd and Higginson) made a
selection of 115 poems for publication. But Colonel Higginson was apprehensive
about the willingness of the public to accept the poems as they stood.
Therefore in preparing copy for the printer he undertook to smooth rhymes,
regularize the meter, delete provincialism, and substitute 'sensible' metaphors...
and occasionally line arrangements was altered."
In 1896 Todd alone edited the third in the
series of ED's poems being selected for publication and she also edited
Letters of Emily Dickinson (1894). In 1914 Martha Dickinson Bianchi,
ED's niece and literary heir issued The Single Hound... "and
alterations in the text... are refreshingly few."
B. 11-10-1893, Mabel Ethelreid Normand, popular
film star was the actual inventor of the pie-in-the-face routine, throwing
one while a bored teenager on the Max Sennett set during the early days
of Hollywood. She became a top drawing film actor but was hit over the
head with a vase which might have caused some brain damage. Afterward she
became a cocaine addict. She was considered a suspect in the unsolved murder
of William Desmond Taylor.
B. 11-10-1907, Jane Froman, Broadway singer,
was seriously injured in a plane crash while on tour entertaining troops
in WWII. She never fully recovered from her injuries nor did her career.
The movie With A Song In My Heart (1952) had Susan Hayward doing
the acting while the sound track was Froman's singing.
B. 11-10-1907, Mildred Lawrence, author.
B. 11-10-1949, Ann Reinking, dancer.
B. 11-10-1949, Donna Fargo, country singer
whose "Happiest Girl in the Whole USA" made her an overnight
star and won her the Grammy award for Song of the Year 1972.
Event: 11-10-1993, the English Anglican Church
votes to ordain women as priests.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
CUNLIFFE, HELEN:
"I just can't stop
laughing, I can't stop crying."
--
Helen Cunliffe, longtime advocate of the women's priest lobby when the
Church of England voted to ordain women as priests, November 10, 1992.
The first women priests were ordained March 11, 1994 and performed their
first priestly duties Sunday May 13, 1994, Mother's Day in England.
THORNTON, NAOMI:
"The minute a woman's
age is known she is not seen for what she is - or for what her fantasies
are - but quickly tagged by others with a certain mental set. She is pinioned
by her years, able to go neither backward or forward."
--
Naomi Thornton
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