Quote of the day
As often happens during a war, some parts of the country prospered, notwithstanding the constant loss.
Rachel Speght

Born: 1597
Bio: Rachel Speght was a poet and polemicist. She was the first Englishwoman to identify herself, by name, as a polemicist and critic of gender ideology. Speght, a feminist and a Calvinist, is perhaps best known for her tract A Mouzell for Melastomus.






