Quote of the day
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Elizabeth Oakes Smith

Born: August 12, 1806
Died: November 16, 1893  (aged 87)
Bio: Elizabeth Oakes Smith was a poet, fiction writer, editor, lecturer, and women’s rights activist whose career spanned six decades, from the 1830s to the 1880s.
Known for:
- The Western Captive and Other Indian Stories
 - Liberating the Home
 






