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RETROSPECT OF WESTERN TRAVEL-Harrief Martineau- Harper (2 vols...
...little over one hundred years ago Harriet Martineau, a deaf but gifted English spinster, toured the U. S. equipped with reforming zeal, a philosophical and inquisitive mind, and a huge, old-fashioned ear trumpet which she aimed like a blunderbuss at the people she questioned. She discovered that only seven occupations were open to U. S. women: domestic service, keeping boarders, teaching young children, needlework, weaving, typesetting and bookbinding.* In 1840 two U. S. ladies, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, attended a World's Anti-Slavery Conference in London, were first barred because of their sex, then permitted...
Whether or not Marian was a platonic boarder, Author Haight does not say. In any case, she remained for two years of weekly soirees, got to know nearly everybody worth knowing among Victorian advanced thinkers. Among them were Herbert Spencer, Carlyle, Harriet Martineau, Francis Newman...
Settled out of court was a suit for $50,000 brought by a Putnam, Conn. State highway worker against young (21) Manhattan Socialite Audrey ("Giddy") Gray, niece of the Duchess of Marlborough. Last July Audrey Gray knocked his two sons off their bicycles, drove on without stopping. To Wilfred Martineau Jr., 14 (left arm amputated), went $17,500; to Gerard (fractured skull...
Died. John Ellis Martineau, 63, Federal Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas, onetime (1927-28) Governor of Arkansas, brother-in-law of Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson; of influenza, complicated by heart disease; in Little Rock. Last December he sentenced Paul Peacher after he was convicted of slave-keeping, in the first case ever tried under a 70-year-old anti-slavery statute (TIME...