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Victorian actress Minnie Ashley embodies
the type of woman that John Stuart Mill
wrote of in The Subjection of Women |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Honoré de Balzac (1799; died August 18, 1850) French novelist and playwright;
La Comédie humaine (
The Human Comedy)
John Stuart Mill (1806; died May 8, 1873) English philosopher;
Autobiography;
On Liberty;
Utilitarianism;
The Subjection of Women
Died on this day:
John Clare (1864; born July 13, 1793) English poet;
Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery;
The Village Minstrel, and Other Poems
Max Beerbohm (1956; born August 24, 1872) English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist who wrote
Zuleika Dobson;
Seven Men;
A Christmas Garland
Stephen Jay Gould (2002; born September 10, 1941) American scientist and historian of science who wrote
Ontogeny and Phylogeny;
Ever Since Darwin and other collections of essays from
Natural History Magazine; also,
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History;
The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox;
Punctuated Equilibrium
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