1818: Emily Jane Brontë born (novelist - Wuthering Heights - and poet)
1852: Emma Gillett born (lawyer, feminist)
1856: Julia Gulliver born (philosopher, educator: Rockford Female Seminary, which later became Rockford College)
Quote for Today
Our province is the emancipation of women, surely one of the great strategic points for the liberation of humanity.
-- Julia Gulliver
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