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"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true."
#OTD in 1850.
Nathaniel Hawthorne's historical novel The Scarlet Letter is published by William Ticknor and James T. Fields in Boston, Massachusetts, where it is set. It sells 2,500 copies in ten days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scarlet_Letter
The Scarlett Letter at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/33
#OTD in 1818.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, his wife Mary and her stepsister Claire Clairmont leave England for Italy (to escape its "tyranny civil and religious"), intending to take Claire's illegitimate child Alba to her father, Lord Byron.
Over the next four years produced what Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill call "some of the finest poetry of the Romantic period".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
Shelley at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1529
Recorded #OnThisDay 48 years ago:
The Stranglers - Peel Session 1977
The complete session recorded by The Stranglers on 1 March 1977 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on the 7th of that month.
Tracklist:
1. Hanging Around (0:07)
2. I Feel Like A Wag (4:29)
3. Goodbye Toulouse (8:18)
4. Something Better Change (11:34)
https://vibracobra23.blogspot.com/2012/05/stranglers-peel-session-1977.html
Danish seismologist and geophysicist Inge Lehmann died #OTD in 1993.
She is best known for her discovery in 1936 of the solid inner core that exists within the molten outer core of the Earth. The seismic discontinuity in the speed of seismic waves at depths between 190 and 250 km is named the Lehmann discontinuity after her. Lehmann is considered to be a pioneer among women and scientists in seismology research.
#OnThisDay, 19 Feb 1963, American writer Betty Friedan's book 'The Feminine Mystique' is published in the USA.
It is widely credited as kick-starting second wave feminism, and identified social expectations of femininity as a driver of women's unhappiness.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #FeministHistory #Histodons
#OTD in 1894.
French anarchist Martial Bourdin accidentally kills himself while attempting to plant a bomb at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, a fictionalised version of which appears in Joseph Conrad's novel The Secret Agent (1907). Bourdin's motives remain a mystery as does his intended target, which may have been the Greenwich Observatory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_Bourdin
The Secret Agent at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/974
#OnThisDay, 13 Feb 1881, Herbertine Auclert publishes the first edition of La Citoyenne in Paris, France. The feminist newspaper runs for ten years.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #FrenchHistory #WomenPublishers #Histodons
#OtD 8 Feb 1840 began the fight for the 8-hour working day in New Zealand. Samuel Parnell (pictured), a carpenter from London, insisted on 8 hours when offered a job, to which the employer had to agree, leading to more 8-hour day organising in the country https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10782/eight-hour-day-in-new-zealand
#OtD 6 Feb 1916 the Cabaret Voltaire nightclub opened in Zürich, Switzerland. Described as "history's wildest nightclub" it was the spiritual home of the often radical Dada art movement, formed by artists revolted by the capitalist carnage of WWI https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10606/opening-of-the-cabaret-voltaire-nightclub
Mary Douglas Leakey was born #OTD in 1913.
She discovered the 1st fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape which is now believed to be ancestral to humans. She discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania. She developed a system for classifying the stone tools found at Olduvai. She discovered the Laetoli footprints, and at the Laetoli site she discovered hominin fossils that were more than 3.75 million years old.
#OnThisDay, 5 Feb 1919, Mary Pickford co-founds United Artists in Hollywood. The production company was an attempt by actors and directors to control their own work rather than being owned by a studio.
#ReclaimTheFrame #HollywoodHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
#OTD in 1852.
Alexandre Dumas, fils's stage adaptation of his 1848 novel La Dame aux caméllias is premièred at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris.
Shortly thereafter, Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi set about putting the story to music in the 1853 opera La traviata, with female protagonist Marguerite Gautier renamed Violetta Valéry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_of_the_Camellias
La dame aux camélias at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2419
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1608
#OTD in 1890.
L. Frank Baum begins publishing and editing his newspaper The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer in Aberdeen, South Dakota.
The Pioneer presented Baum's views on politics, suffrage, tolerance, and religion, providing an important key for deciphering the themes which would later appear in his fictional works, especially his 14 Oz books. Due to financial problems the paper ceased publication, with the final issue of being published on March 21, 1891.
#OtD 24 Jan 1977 the Atocha massacre took place in Madrid when 9 left-wing lawyers were shot in a machine-gun attack by fascists. They killed 5 and seriously injured 4, including a pregnant woman https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9653/The-Atocha-Massacre
