Edith Jeannette Goode graduates from Smith
where she had already formed what would be a lifelong friendship with Alice Morgan Wright, and the two of them go to England to join Sylvia Pankhurst in the Suffragette Movement.
A young girl, long ago, but not Edith
This was a challenging post (remember, you have to have historical reference, modern day relevance and a picture -- it's not easy being me). It started with my dear sister [thank Heaven for Family who get what you're doing when no one else does] who has been encouraging me to revisit Baum and the Oz books, the second one in particular for being published in 1904 and for its allusions to the Women's Right to Vote Movement.
As you may recall, my sister lives in the frozen north of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and she has only recently acquired Internet access (not to mention her first DVD player):
"I tried to find the Oz book today at our Library but they don't have it. A quick review of the Plot, however, is that TIP goes to Oz which has been captured by girls (slam against suffragettes no doubt), and it turns out that the boy Tip is really PRINCESS OZMA who had been transformed into a boy by the Witch MOMBI."
In several further emails, she sent me files she copied from the Wikipedia, an on-line encyclopedia which she explained they have access to in the U.P. (and presumably not in California which is further away). I think she assumes the Internet works the same way that, on clear nights when we were children growing up on Lake Erie, we could sometimes listen to Canadian stations on the radio, coming across the water [The weather reports always made us glad we didn't live in Celsius -- boy, did they have cold and lousy weather there!]
The point is, young women today have no idea how lucky they are. When my sister and my neighbor downstairs (who incidentally are both the same age and both named Barbara) were young girls, their mothers could remember the days before they had the vote, when women were tied to the plows in the field like horses, and if you were a little girl your only toy would be a puppy or a kitten if you were lucky, and you were happy.
That's right, "Pamela." Happy. Be grateful for what you have.
A doll named Edith, which didn't even exist when women couldn't vote. And yes, sometimes you let your brother play with dolls and didn't say anything.
A young girl, long ago, but not Edith
This was a challenging post (remember, you have to have historical reference, modern day relevance and a picture -- it's not easy being me). It started with my dear sister [thank Heaven for Family who get what you're doing when no one else does] who has been encouraging me to revisit Baum and the Oz books, the second one in particular for being published in 1904 and for its allusions to the Women's Right to Vote Movement.
As you may recall, my sister lives in the frozen north of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and she has only recently acquired Internet access (not to mention her first DVD player):
"I tried to find the Oz book today at our Library but they don't have it. A quick review of the Plot, however, is that TIP goes to Oz which has been captured by girls (slam against suffragettes no doubt), and it turns out that the boy Tip is really PRINCESS OZMA who had been transformed into a boy by the Witch MOMBI."
In several further emails, she sent me files she copied from the Wikipedia, an on-line encyclopedia which she explained they have access to in the U.P. (and presumably not in California which is further away). I think she assumes the Internet works the same way that, on clear nights when we were children growing up on Lake Erie, we could sometimes listen to Canadian stations on the radio, coming across the water [The weather reports always made us glad we didn't live in Celsius -- boy, did they have cold and lousy weather there!]
The point is, young women today have no idea how lucky they are. When my sister and my neighbor downstairs (who incidentally are both the same age and both named Barbara) were young girls, their mothers could remember the days before they had the vote, when women were tied to the plows in the field like horses, and if you were a little girl your only toy would be a puppy or a kitten if you were lucky, and you were happy.
That's right, "Pamela." Happy. Be grateful for what you have.
A doll named Edith, which didn't even exist when women couldn't vote. And yes, sometimes you let your brother play with dolls and didn't say anything.
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