today in women's herstory

[niyad]

October 30
This Day in Women's History


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)

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/10calendar/a/1030calendar.htm

[Lisa D]

1. I love this!

Thank you for posting.

Jane Austen is one of my favorite authors. Here is one of my favorite quotes from her books.

“Life, if you live it right, keeps surprising you, and the thing that keeps surprising you the most…is yourself”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

[niyad]

2. thank you for sharing that quote, too!

[Gormy Cuss]

3. Most surprising on that list for me was Irma Rombauer's birth year.

Wow! "Joy" was the product of a nineteenth century woman.

[niyad]

4. quite a remarkable achievement!

did you ever see "julie and julia"? there was a wonderful scene where julia and simone meet irma. they were not, however, impressed.

[Gormy Cuss]

5. Yes! I remember thinking that Julia and Simone were a bit too snooty

to understand how significant Rombauer's cookbook was.

[niyad]

6. it seemed to me that they thought she was more concerned about royalties than anything else.

will have to watch again.