1793: Jacobin government of France banned all female political organizations and, in the next week, arrested and executed many women leaders
1815: Elizabeth Roux Comstock born (Quaker minister, reformer)
1830: Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's first novel, published
1837: Harriet Powers born (African American quilter; her quilts are in the Smithsonian Institution)
1854: Julie Rive-King born (pianist, composer)
1857: Gertrude Horn Atherton born (writer)
1864: Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge born (philanthropist)
1877: Irma Rombauer born (cookbook author)
1880 or 1881: Elizabeth Roberts born (writer)
Quote for Today
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We know that poverty in this country [the United States] is primarily the problem of all women -- that most women are only a husband away from welfare.
— Tony Carabillo
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