06-05 TABLE of CONTENTS:
Will Gives Suffrage Fight $2 Million
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTE by Patricia
Cornwell.
MR. Leslie, a Woman, Wills Feminism
$2 Million
After
the bankruptcy and death of her husband Frank, Miriam Florence Folline
Leslie rebuilt the Leslie publishing empire, changed her name officially
to Mrs. Frank Leslie and willed $2 million to Carrie Chapman Catt personally
to forward the cause of women's suffrage. History was advanced by the
bequest.
It would cost Catt more than a million dollars in
legal fees to fight the family challenge. (The family ignored the fact
that Miriam helped build and then single-handedly rebuilt the publishing
empire and earned the money herself). The challenges left women's suffrage
with about $800,0000.
CCC used the money to set up a wonderful publicity
and information bureau named after Leslie. News papers, magazines, and
leaflets went out to millions of people swaying them to support women's
suffrage and organizing them. It was the greatest publicity blitz in the
history of this nation - and perhaps the world.
After MR. Frank died broke in 1880, Miriam who had
personally edited several of the publications took over the management
of the floundering publishing empire and gained the title of the "Joan
of Arc of American publishing." The Leslie
publishing empire consisted of a number of weekly and monthly magazines,
the most successful and popular publications of their time. They supported
the Leslies luxuriously.
MFFL became a legendary party hostess and her life
was as intricate as any fiction. She started off on the stage in an act
that starred the legendary Lola Montez. She married a Leslie publications
editor and before her divorce shared her life and her husband's home with
publisher Frank Leslie whom she eventually married in a renowed menage
a trois.
After Leslie's death, she was married for a short
time to the brother of Oscar Wilde. The details of the Leslie Legacy and
how CCC used the money can be found in the Leslie
documents in the WiiN library.
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06-05 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and EVENTS
Event 06-05-1832, Kaahumanu, Hawaii's first feminist died. She
co-ruled the islands with her husband Kamehameha II and then as regent
for her son Kamehameha III.
She worked with her husband
to unite all the islands and then broke down many of the native religions
barriers against women. She convinced her husband to eat with women in
public.
She began a system of
laws that her son developed into constitution government and supported
his requirement of literacy for all Hawaiian citizens.
She encouraged the Protestant
missionary movement in the islands and converted to Christianity.
B. 06-05-1884, Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett - British novelist whose
18 novels are primarily narrated entirely through dialogue as they dissect
human relationships
Recognized as a genius
during her lifetime - somewhat comparing her writings to cubism and modernism
- no writer has been able to sustain her incisive use of dialogue since.
Her work has been called "the most brilliant and sustained verbal
comedy in English."
She had a history of
mental and physical breakdowns until at 35 she met her lifelong companion
Margaret Jourdain, a freelance writer. She then wrote Pastors and Masters
(1925) and followed with 18 novels in the distinctive dialogue style.
B. 06-05-1887, Ruth Fulton Benedict - U.S. anthropologist whose
writings helped determine the U.S. postwar policy towards Japan. In spite
of her world-renowned fame in the field of anthropology dating from 1924,
she was not made a full professor at Columbia University until 1948, a
few months before her death.
Died 06-05-1909, Kate Cumming, Confederate hospital administator
and diarist.
Event 06-05-1922: Marie Luhring received her masters in automotive
engineering after having been elected the first woman member of the
American Society of Automotive Engineers.
She was forced to work
as a draftsman in a car factory as her sex closed career doors that were
wide open to lesser qualified men.
Event 06-05-1937: K. Elizabeth Ohi of Illinois is the first woman
known to be of Japanese descent who was admitted to practice U.S. law.
B. 06-05-1938, Moira Anderson - Scottish singer who specialized
in her native county's songs.
B. 06-05-1939, Margaret Drabble - British author, described as
a chronicler of modern Britain where women cannot make do with old solutions.
Many of her books explore the sexuality of modern women, including orgasms,
marriage and motherhood as well as the effects of the patriarchy.
Her mother was an English
teacher, Her sister is A. S. Byatt, also a noted novelist..
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QUOTES DU JOUR
CORNWELL, PATRICIA:
"Why
is it if you are the victim of a crime, you feel the shame? It should be
the person who did the crime who feels the shame."
-- Patricia Cornwell commenting in 1993 about being sexual molested
when she was 5. Her brother chased the "friendly" security guard
away. Born 06-06(09?) -1956, PC is the creator of the wildly popular series
featuring Richmond, Virginia, coroner Kay Scarpetti.
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