Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) was a journalist, critic and women's rights
activist. She was the first full-time female book reviewer in
journalism. She became the first editor of the transcendental
publication The Dial in 1840 before joining the staff of the New York
Tribune in 1844. By the time she was in her 30s, Fuller had earned a
reputation as the best-read person in New England, male or female. Her
seminal work, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, was published in 1845
and is considered the first major feminist work in the United States.
Fuller was an advocate of women's rights and, in particular, women's
education and the right to employment. She also encouraged many other
reforms in society, including prison reform and the emancipation of
slaves in the United States. Fuller became involved with the revolution
in Italy and allied herself with Giuseppe Mazzini. She also met
Giovanni Ossoli, with whom she had a child. All three members of the
family died in a shipwreck in 1850. Fuller's body was never recovered.
Shortly after Fuller's death her importance faded; the editors who
prepared her letters to be published, believing her fame would be
short-lived, were not concerned about accuracy and censored or altered
much of her words before publication.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1498:
Girolamo Savonarola of Florence was executed for heresy, uttering
prophecies, sedition, and other crimes.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girolamo_Savonarola>
1533:
The marriage of Henry VIII of England and his first wife Catherine of
Aragon was annulled.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Aragon>
1568:
The Dutch Revolt broke out when rebels led by Louis of Nassau invaded
Friesland at the Battle of Heiligerlee.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Revolt>
1706:
War of the Spanish Succession: Led by the Duke of Marlborough, the
allied forces of England, the Dutch Republic, and Denmark defeated the
Franco-Bavarian army in Ramillies, present-day Belgium.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Ramillies>
1934:
American criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and
killed by police on a desolate road near their hideout in Bienville
Parish, Louisiana.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie_and_Clyde>
2008:
To resolve a 29-year-old territorial dispute, the International Court
of Justice awarded Middle Rocks to Malaysia and Pedra Branca to
Singapore.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedra_Branca_dispute>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
macaronic (adj):
1. (archaic) Jumbled, mixed.
2. (literature) Written in a hodgepodge mixture of two or more
languages
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/macaronic>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank
in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no
one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to
suffer the penalty due to his own offenses.
--Margaret Fuller
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