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November 27

This Day in Women's History

By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com

    1809: Fanny Kemble born (actor, journal writer)

    1875: Elsie Clews Parsons born (anthropologist)

    1877: Katharine Anthony born (mathematician, biographer)

    1957: Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg born (lawyer, writer; daughter of President John F. Kennedy)

Quote for Today

    For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor, until no slightest margin for relaxation or change of thought remains.

    — Katharine Anthony

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