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Daisy Ashford
née Margaret Mary Julia Ashford
b. 4-7-1881; Petersham, Surrey, England
d. 1-15-1972
Daisy Ashford is most remembered for her The Young Visiters (sic), written when she was nine years old. The story, about upper-class, late 19th century society in Victorian England, was published in 1919 after she found the notebook tucked away in a drawer. ... FYI - Miss Ashford had dictated her first story to her father when she was four.
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Margot Asquith
b. 2-4-1864; Peeblesshire, Tweeddale, Scotland
d. 7-28-1945; Thurloe Place, Kensington
Margot Asquith, (née Emma Alice Margaret Tennant), second wife of H H Asquith (British PM 1908), Married 1894
Margot Asquith quote:
• "Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life. "
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Mary Astell
b. 11-12-1666; Newcastle upon Tyne, England
d. 5-11-1731; breast cancer
Considered the first English feminist, author Mary Astell advocated an education for women that would extend their choices beyond being only either a mother, or a nun.
Astell's best known books, A Serious Proposal to the Ladies, for the Advancement of Their True and Greatest Interest (1694) and A Serious Proposal, Part II (1697), were outlines of a new type of institution, a protected environment, for women to assist in providing women with both religious and secular education.
Mary Astell quotes ~
• “If all Men are born free, how is it that all Women are born Slaves?”
• “Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.”
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Margaret Atwood
b. 11-18-1939; Ottawa, Canada
Poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist Margaret Atwood has been awarded numerous prizes for her work. She calls stories like The Handmaid's Tale “speculative fiction”, and recently wrote the non-fiction “Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth”.
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Jean Auel
b. 2-8-1936; Chicago, IL
Jean Auel, best known for her Earth's Children series set in prehistoric Europe, explores interactions of Cro-Magnon people with Neanderthals.
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Marie-Catherine,
Countess d'Aulnoy
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Marie-Catherine, Countess d'Aulnoy
b. 1650/51; Barneville-la-Bertran, Calvados, France
d. 1-4-1705; Paris
Madame d'Aulnoy, remembered today as the originator of the term “fairy tale”, recorded stories as they may have been told in her famous literary salon.
• The Fairy Tales of Madame D'Aulnoy
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Jane Austen
b. 12-16-1775; Steventon, Hampshire, England
d. 7-18-1817; Winchester, buried at Winchester Cathedral
Mr. Darcy had at first scarcely allowed her to be pretty; he had looked at her without admiration at the ball, and when thay next met, he looked at her only to criticise. But no sooner had he made it clear to himself and his friends that she had hardly a good feature in her face, than he began to find it was rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes. — Pride and Prejudice
• Jane Austen posters
• more Great British Writers posters
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