Born on this day – Sophie Elkan:

Sophie Elkan

Writer

Translator

January 3, 1853 – April 5, 1921

Credits:

Books:

From East and West: A Book of Short Stories (1908); John Hall: a story from old Gothenburg (1899); Major and Minor: Sketches and Stories (1889); Med sordin: Sketches and short stories (1891); Rich Girls: Story (1893); Shifting Moods: A Book of Short Stories (1896); The dream of the east (1901); The king in exile: a true story (1906); The King: a true story (1904).

Movie:

Selma (2008).

Born on this day – George Eliot:

George Eliot

Writer

Translator

November 22, 1819 – December 22, 1880

Credits:

Books:

Adam Bede (1859); Brother Jacob (1864); Daniel Deronda (1876); Felix Holt, the Radical (1866); Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1879); Middlemarch (1871–1872); Review of John Ruskin’s Modern Painters in Westminster Review (April 1856); Romola (1863); Scenes of Clerical Life / The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton / Mr Gilfil’s Love Story / Janet’s Repentance (1857); Silas Marner (1861); Silly Novels by Lady Novelists (1856); The Influence of Rationalism (1865); The Lifted Veil (1859); The Mill on the Floss (1860); The Natural History of German Life (1856); Three Months in Weimar (1855); Translations: The Life of Jesus Volume 2 by David Strauss (1846) / The Essence of Christianity by Ludwig Feuerbach (1854) / The Ethics of Benedict de Spinoza by Benedict de Spinoza (1856).

Poems:

A College Breakfast Party (1879); A Minor Prophet (1865); Agatha (1868); Arion (1873); Armgart (1870); Brother and Sister (1869); Evenings Come and Go, Love (1878); How Lisa Loved the King (1869); I Grant You Ample Leave (1874); In a London Drawingroom (1865); Knowing That I Must Shortly Put Off This Tabernacle (1840); Self and Life (1879); Stradivarius (1873); The Choir Invisible (1867); The Death of Moses (1879); The Legend of Jubal (1874); The Spanish Gypsy (1868); Two Lovers (1866).

Movies and television:

A Fair Exchange (1909); A Simple Twist of Fate (1994); Adam Bede (1915 / 1918); Are Children to Blame? (1920); Daniel Deronda (1921 / 1970 / 2002); Felix Holt (1915); George Eliot: A Scandalous Life (2002); Gwendolin (1914); Harvest of Hate (1940); Les liens du coeur (1996); Matinee Theatre (1957); Middlemarch (1968 / 1994); Monodrama Theater (1953); Mr. Gilfil’s Love Story (1920); Novela (1970); Romola (1911 / 1924); Santa Cecilia (1911); Screen One (1992); Silas Marner (1911 / 1913 / 1916 / 1922 / 1964 / 1985); The Mill on the Floss (1915 / 1936 / 1965 / 1997); The Mill on the Floss / TV mini-series (1978–1979); Wishbone (1995).

Born on this day – Lorraine O'Grady:

Lorraine O'Grady

Artist

Photographer

Writer

Translator

September 21, 1934 – December 13, 2024

Credits:

Books:

Lorraine O'Grady: Both/And; Writing in Space, 1973-2019.

Podcast:

Womanica / Visionaries: Lorraine O'Grady (2021).

Born on this day – Lore Segal:

Lore Segal

Writer

Translator

Teacher

Actress

March 8, 1928 – October 7, 2024

Credits:

Books:

All the Way Home (1973); An Absence of Cousins (2024); Half the Kingdom (2013); Her First American (1985); Ladies' Lunch (2023); Lucinella (1976); More Mole Stories and Little Gopher, Too (2005); Morris the Artist (2003); Mrs. Lovewright & Purrless Her Cat (1993); Other People's Houses (1973); Shakespeare's Kitchen (2007); Tell Me a Mitzi (1977); Tell Me a Trudy (1977); The Best American Short Stories 1990 (1990); The Book Of Adam To Moses (1987); The Journal I Never Kept (2019); The Story of King Saul and King David (1991); The Story of Old Mrs. Brubeck (1981); Why Mole Shouted and Other Stories (2004).

Movies and television:

Crossing Delancey (1988); Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000); My Knees Were Jumping: Remembering the Kindertransports (1996); Vielleicht habe ich Glück gehabt / Maybe I was lucky (2003).

Born on this day – Gertrude Simmons Bonnin:

Gertrude Simmons Bonnin

aka Zitkala-Ša

Writer

Librettist

Musician: violin & flute

Teacher

Editor

Translator

Native American activist

February 22, 1876 – January 26, 1938

Credits:

American Indian Stories (1921); Oklahoma's Poor Rich Indians (1923);

Old Indian Legends (1901); The Sun Dance Opera (1913).