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LibriVox is an invented word inspired by Latin words liber (book) in its genitive form libri and vox (voice), giving the meaning BookVoice (or voice of the book). The word was also coined because of other connotations: liber also means child and free, independent, unrestricted .
The "Rootabaga" stories were born of Sandburg's desire for "American fairy tales" to match American childhood. He felt that the European stories involving royalty and knights were inappropriate, and so set his stories in a fictionalized American Midwest called "the Rootabaga country" with fairy-tale concepts such as corn fairies mixed with farms, trains, sidewalks, and skyscrapers.
Title page of 1814 edition Vault stone in the Trinity Church graveyard, but no one knows if anyone is actually interred in the vault.. Charlotte Temple is a novel by British-American author Susanna Rowson, originally published in England in 1791 under the title Charlotte, A Tale of Truth. [1]
Macdonald mobilized the women of the Auxiliary under the motto "Education is a right, not a privilege". Members of the Auxiliary transformed the attic of the New York Public Library into a studio, recording textbooks using then state-of-the-art six-inch vinyl SoundScriber phonograph discs that played approximately 12 minutes of material per ...
Created during a moment of radical activism in Boston's history, Our Bodies, Our Selves, came out of the Bread and Roses collective, a radical women's liberation collective started in the 1960s and 1970s. While a short-lived collective it had a lasting impact of the projects that were created from it.
Nina Wilcox Putnam in 1913. Putnam was born Inez Coralie Wilcox [1] in New Haven, Connecticut on November 28, 1888 to Eleanor Sanchez Wilcox and Marrion Wilcox.She was homeschooled by her father, who taught English at Yale and was an editor of Harper's Weekly and the Encyclopedia Americana. [2]
Elsa Gidlow (29 December 1898 – 8 June 1986) was a British-born, Canadian-American poet, freelance journalist, philosopher and humanitarian. She is best known for writing On a Grey Thread (1923), the first volume of openly lesbian love poetry published in North America. [2]
The association provided women with annual holidays and recreational facilities. [2] In 1910 he set up Singholm, a guest house in Walton-on-the-Naze, where forty women at a time could relax during their fortnight's holiday. He spent much of his own time there.