Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Harriet Hanson Robinson
Born: February 8, 1825
Died: December 22, 1911 (aged 86)
Bio: Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, who worked as a bobbin doffer in a Massachusetts cotton mill as a child, was involved in a worker's strike, became a poet and author and played an important role in the women's suffrage movement in the United States.
Known for:
- Loom and Spindle (1898)
- Captain Mary Miller (1887)
- Massachusetts in the woman suffrage movement