1804: Eliza Roxey Snow Smith born
1840: Sophia Jex-Blake born
1853: Helen Hamilton Gardener born
1879: Helen Gwynne-Vaughn born
1908: New York outlaws smoking by women
1917: Francesca Alexander died
1922: Jade Snow Wing born
1941: Elaine Showalter born
Saint's Day: Agnes of Rome
Quote for Today
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At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to see it can be done -- then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
—
Frances Hodgson Burnett,
from The Secret Garden
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