| 12-03 TABLE of CONTENTS:
Marriage and Ambition
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTES by
Anne Quindlen and Nancy Pickard.
Excerpt from Women and the Trades
"Cause and
effect in their case work in a circle.
"Expectations of marriage, as a customary means
of support, stunts professional ambition among women. This lack of ambition
can have no other effect than to limit efficiency, and restricts them to
subsidiary, uninteresting, and monotonous occupations. The very character
of their work in turn lessens their interest in it.
"Without interest they least of all feel themselves
integral parts of the industry and in consequence assume no responsibility,
affect no loyalty. They do not care to learn; opportunity to learn is not
given them; both are causes and both are effects.
"Women see only a fight for place, and a very
uncertain advantage if they gain it; wages are low, again both cause and
effect of their dependence on others for their support. They shift around
on lower levels of industry from packing room to metal work, from metal
work to laundry work, a very few, through unwonted good fortune, unwonted
determination, break through the circle and rise."
-- Elizabeth Beardsley Butler, Women
and the Trades.
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12-03 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 12-03-1764, Mary Lamb, English author,
wrote 14 of the 20 Tales from Shakespeare with her brother, Charles
(who got top billing), as well as many other poems and stories.
B. 12-03-1799, Margaret O'Neale Eaton, either
an adulteress or the victim of scandalous
rumors. Her marriage to the man who would become a cabinet officer resulted
in a scandal that caused Andrew Jackson to dismiss his entire cabinet,
and that resulted in the permanent breach between Jackson and Calhoun which
led to Martin Van Buren's becoming President rather than Calhoun.
B. 12-03-1838, Octavia Hill, leader of the
British open-spaces movement and the formation
of England's National Trust for Places of Historic Interest (1895). She
was also a housing reformer.
B. 12-03-1842, Ellen Henrietta Richards, American
chemist who founded the home-economics
movement and developed numerous standard anti-pollution methods. Virtually
created the profession of dietician. Discovered process of naphtha dry
cleaning. Instrumental in pioneer food and drug acts which led to the federal
involvement. A founder of the American Association of University Women.
B. 12-03-1892, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, author
of all 55 of the Nancy Drew mysteries and most of the Hardy Boys
and Toms Swift Jr., series as well as numerous books in the Bobbsey
Twins and other books in the Stratemeyer publishing empire. Took over
the organization in 1930 when her father died. In all wrote almost 200
books under the names of Victoria Appleton II, May Hollis Barton, Franklin
W. Dixon, Larua Lee Hope, Carolyn Keene, Ann Sheldon and Helen Louis Thorndyke.
B. 12-03-1895, Anna Freud, internationally
renowned Austrian-American psychoanalyst,
daughter of Sigmund. Founder of child psychoanalysis. She was an outspoken
critic of Adolph Hitler and was forced to flee Europe. Wrote the classic
Ego and Mechanisms of Defence (1936) and founded the Hampstead Child
Therapy Clinic.
B. 12-03-1911, Dana Suesse, classical and popular
music composer called the female George
Gershwin because she composed works in both genres. Best known works: "You're
So Beautiful," "The Night is Young," "You Ought to
Be in Pictures."
B. 12-03-1914, Tanya Moiselwitsch, considered
one of England's foremost stage designers.
Her mother Daisy Kennedy was an Austrian concert violinist.
Event, 12-03-1918, the gentlemen of the Union
of Streetcar Conductors went on strike against the employment of women
conductors. The following spring, the War Labor Board voted with the women
and their right to their jobs.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
QUINDLEN, ANNE:
" 'How's being married,
Aunt Celeste?' Maggie asked.
" 'It's better this time,' Celeste said thoughtfully.
'But still it's the same. It's not natural having someone else telling
you what to do all the time. But at least we're not arguing about how much
I spend on clothes. When I was married to your Uncle Charlie, one little
blouse and - pow! He broke my nose once over a winter coat.'
" 'Don't tell her things like that,' Maggie's
mother said. 'It'll make her think all marriages are like that.' Celeste
lifted her eyebrows again."
--
Anne Quindlen
PICKARD, NANCY:
"What do think marriage
is, Sis? I'll tell you what it is - some man wraps love around your eyes
like a blindfold, he binds your hands with sex, then he leads you to the
altar to sacrifice your brains to his ambition and your abilities to his
convenience."
--
Nancy Pickard in Marriage is Murder.
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