Marozia
Known for: figure in papal politics, ancestor of Popes Dates: ~892 – ~937 Background, Family: Father: Theophylact Mother: Theodora Husbands: Alberic I of Spoleto Guido of Tuscany Hugh of Provence Rumored lover: Pope...
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Jane Addams: A Modern Lear
This is a version of an 1896 speech by Jane Addams, published in 1912 as a magazine article, on the Pullman strike and its ethical lessons. Addams compares George Pullman, the owner of the Pullman Company, to...
Read MoreMeeting the Herschels – Maria Mitchell
Source: Maria Mitchell, The Century vol. 38, 1889. About this text: Maria Mitchell reflects on an 1857 visit to Sir John Herschel, British astronomer, and his family. Mitchell, an astronomer who later taught at Vassar, reflects...
Read MoreMemories of the Herschels – Maria Mitchell
Source: Maria Mitchell, The Century vol. 38, 1889. About this text: Maria Mitchell reflects on an 1857 visit to Sir John Herschel, British astronomer, and his family. Mitchell, an astronomer who later taught at Vassar, reflects...
Read MoreMaria Mitchell by Harriet Townsend, 1916
From Reminiscences of Famous Women by Harriet A. Townsend. This edition originally published in 1916. These are busy days for intelligent women. Life broadens with the years. New interests and personalities attract and divert....
Read MoreMaria Mitchell by Anna C. Brackett
From an article in The Century, October 1889, by Anna C. Brackett, published on the death of Maria Mitchell, and summarizing the effect of Mitchell upon her students. Whatever is most characteristic and strongest in the New...
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The Other Side of the Woman Question
by Julia Ward Howe The following article, written by Julia Ward Howe in 1879, outlines some...
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We Now Demand Our Right to Vote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: July 19, 1848 A speech given by Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the 1848 Seneca...
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