Marie Laeng-Stucki (1905–74) 1 of most powerful female #Swiss entrepreneurs. With husband Fritz, "Mama Laeng" founded Lenco vinyl turntables in 1946. 1,300 staff had a pension scheme, sports teams, a library, cashless salary payments, flexible work hours & accident prevention - all before Swiss women got vote in 1971
New #Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Laeng-Stucki
English novelist, biographer, memoirist, historian and short story writer E. F. Benson died #OTD in 1940. Benson was a precocious and prolific writer. His first book was Sketches from Marlborough, published while he was a student. He started his novel-writing career with the fashionably controversial Dodo. The Mapp and Lucia series, written relatively late in his career, consists of six novels and two short stories. via @wikipedia
Huge fan of the Mapp & Lucia series. I even made the pilgrimage to Rye, an almost perfect match for Tilling in the novels, where Benson lived while writing them. Specific places were repurposed for the narrative, so you can read the books and accurately follow in the footsteps of the characters.
I think of Mapp & Lucia as two dinosaurs locked in an epic struggle for dominance, while constrained by the social rules of the 1930s. @bookstodon
Andrée Dupeyron (1902-88) French woman civil & military aviator broke long distance flying records in 1930s, nicknamed "La mère de famille volante" as her family all involved in flying. #WWII flew for Free French Air Force & the Premier corps de pilotes militaires féminins, short lived cohort of women military pilots set up at end #WWII. New #Wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9e_Dupeyron#WikiWomenInRed Translated and improved from French language version @lessanspages@histodons@wikipedia
"To trace the unfamiliar to the familiar... is to understand."
Incredible Adventures
Algernon Henry Blackwood British writer of tales of mystery and the supernatural died #OTD in 1951. His two best-known stories are probably "The Willows" and "The Wendigo". Though Blackwood wrote a number of horror stories, his most typical work seeks less to frighten than to induce a sense of awe. via @wikipedia
Being in Cambridge, today I’m fortunate to be able to attend ‘The Care of #Books Is a Difficult Business’, a symposium honouring the legacy of Francis Jenkinson (1853 Aug 20–1923 Sep 21), librarian of Cambridge University Library from 1899 until 1923. A full day of excellent papers, display of Jenkinsoniana, and a reception are planned. #GLAM#Libraries @bookhistodons
Andrée Grandjean (pseudonym Françoise Bontemps) (1910-99) #Belgian lawyer, #WWII member of Belgian #Resistance. Leader organiser in Front de l'indépendance, co-organiser of Faux Soir newspaper act of resistance, communist activist. Post war returned to law, obtained death sentence for denouncer of Jean Hansen, student member of Resistance shot by occupying forces. Worked on the Marcinelle mining disaster trial. New @wikipedia page #WikiWomenInRed@histodonshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9e_Grandjean