Romantic author Mary Shelley (pictured). Issued in 1844, it describes
two European trips that she took with her son and some of his friends.
She had lived in Italy with her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, between
1818 and 1823 and it was associated with joy and grief: she had written
much there but had also lost her husband and two children. Shelley
presented her material from what she describes as "a political point of
view", challenging the convention that it was improper for women to
write about politics. Her aim was to arouse English sympathy for Italian
revolutionaries, having associated herself with the "Young Italy"
movement when in Paris on her second trip. Although Shelley herself
thought the work "poor", it found favour with reviewers who praised its
independence of thought, wit, and feeling, and her political commentary
on Italy. However, for most of the 19th and 20th centuries, Shelley was
usually known only for Frankenstein and her husband. Rambles was not
reprinted until the rise of feminist literary criticism in the 1970s
provoked a wider interest in her entire corpus.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambles_in_Germany_and_Italy>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1689:
Glorious Revolution: Mary Stuart and her husband William III
of Orange were proclaimed co-rulers of England and Ireland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_III_of_England>
1931:
New Delhi (India Gate pictured) was inaugurated as the new
capital of British India by Viceroy Lord Irwin.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Delhi>
1960:
African American college students staged the first of the
Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee, part
of a nonviolent direct action campaign to end racial segregation.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_sit-ins>
1970:
The English rock band Black Sabbath released their eponymous
debut album, which is recognised as the first major album to be credited
with the development of the heavy metal genre.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sabbath_(album)>
2008:
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised to Indigenous
Australians and the Stolen Generations.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
troika:
1. A Russian carriage drawn by a team of three horses abreast.
2. A party or group of three.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/troika>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Mine is the sunlight, Mine is the morning Born of the one light
Eden saw play. Praise with elation, Praise every morning, God's re-
creation Of the new day!
--Eleanor Farjeon
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Eleanor_Farjeon>
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