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Smith was born on 6 July 1926 [1] in Northallerton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, [2] [3] to Dorothy F. Place and Tom Place, who had her and three sons. Her mother was a university-trained chemist who had been engaged in the women's suffrage movement as a young woman, and her father was a timber merchant.
A Woman of Independent Means is a 1995 American period drama television miniseries directed and produced by Robert Greenwald from a teleplay by Cindy Myers, based on the 1978 book of the same name by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey.
She closes out this chapter by naming more influential women, Amanda Smith, Sarah Woodson Early, Martha Briggs, Charlotte Forten Grimké, Hallie Quinn Brown, and Fanny Jackson Coppin. The conclusion of the chapter makes a final claim of the importance of women and how America's society would be less advanced without them.
A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde is "a new and original play of modern life", in four acts, first given on 19 April 1893 at the Haymarket Theatre, London. [1] Like Wilde's other society plays, it satirises English upper-class society.
Nevertheless, some migrants from the South, including Robert Smith, continued to bring enslaved people into the state. [14] California's courts routinely ruled against the freedom claims of enslaved African Americans in support of slave owners. [15] Biddy was under the control of Robert Smith and ignorant of the laws and her rights. [16] [17]
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One of the most profound differences between men and women is the role each plays in reproduction. Menstruation and gestation have historically influenced and limited the role that women played in society. In some societies, a woman's value was measured in her ability to bear children, and raising children became the focus of many women's lives.
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