Margaret Full was a well-educated native of Massachusetts in the early 1800s. Born in 1810, she joined the New York Tribune as its literary critic in her early 30s and quickly amassed a following. She became something of a celebrity in her native New England, and was popular enough that she became the first woman allowed access to the library at Harvard College! (Which says more about Harvard than about Full, unfortunately.) She argued for equal access to education for women, prison reform, and the abolition of slavery. Her views ended up in a book, “Woman in the Nineteenth Century” in 1845.
One year later, the New York Times sent Fuller to Europe as its first female correspondent, for her to cover the democratic revolution in Italy led by Giuseppe Mazzini. There, she fell in love with revolutionary Giovanni Ossoli, giving birth to their child – scandalously without marrying Ossoli. The three were en route back to America in 1850 when their ship foundered off Fire Island, New York, drowning all three. Her friend, writer Henry David Thoreau, searched the beach for Fuller’s personal effects but none were ever found.
Happy birthday John B. Watson (January 9, 1878 – September 25, 1958)
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An Assyrian clay tablet dating to about 2800 BCE is said to bear the words “Out earth is degenerate in these latter days. There are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end. Bribery ad corruption are common. Children no longer obey their parents.”
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