On this day in music history - The album To The Wind…, by Fiona Joy Hawkins & Rebecca Daniel (2023)

Starman by David Bowie (1972)

To The Wind… by Fiona Joy Hawkins & Rebecca Daniel (2023)

Starman

Song by David Bowie,

released April 28, 1972.

 

To The Wind…

Album by Fiona Joy Hawkins & Rebecca Daniel,

released April 28, 2023.

Track list: Celtic Contemplation; Blue Dream; The Void; Light in the Darkness; My Hands Were Busy; Necessity for the Mundane; Rain On My Coat; Reverie.

Mary Wortley Montagu, on reading:

No entertainment is so cheap as reading,
nor any pleasure so lasting.
– Mary Wortley Montagu.

Born on this day – Mary Wollstonecraft:

Mary Wollstonecraft

Writer

Philosopher

April 27, 1759 – September 10, 1797

Credits:

Books and articles:

A Different Face: the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; A most extraordinary pair: Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin; Feminist Interpretations of Mary Wollstonecraft; Feminist theory: a philosophical anthology; Her Own Woman: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; Impeccable Governess, Rational Dames, and Moral Mothers: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Female Tradition in Georgian Children's Books; Letters to Imlay, with prefatory memoir by C. Kegan Paul; Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination; Mary Wollstonecraft and the Language of Sensibility; Mary Wollstonecraft and the literature of advice and instruction; Mary Wollstonecraft on education; Mary Wollstonecraft: A Biography; Mary Wollstonecraft: A Critical Biography; Mary Wollstonecraft: A Literary Life; Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life; Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and the Women Writers of Her Day; Mary Wollstonecraft's reception and legacies; Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft; Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman; On Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: The First of a New Genus; On the Reception of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; Romantic Correspondence: Women, politics and the fiction of letters; Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley; Sea Changes: Essays on Culture and Feminism; Sensibility and the 'Walk of Reason': Mary Wollstonecraft's Literary Reviews as Cultural Critique; The Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft; The Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft; The Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft; The Godwins and the Shelleys: The biography of a family; The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft; The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft; The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen; The Vindications: The Rights of Men and The Rights of Woman; Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft; Wollstonecraft's daughters: womanhood in England and France, 1780–1920; Wollstonecraft's Letters Written ... in Sweden: Towards Romantic Autobiography; Women's Friendship in Literature.

Movies and television:

If Love Should Die (date?); Mary Wollstonecraft of Sector Seventeen (2008).

Born on this day – Jessie Redmon Fauset:

Jessie Redmon Fauset

Writer

Teacher

April 27, 1882 – April 30, 1961

Credits:

Books:

Comedy, American Style (1933); Plum Bun: A Novel Without a Moral (1928); The Chinaberry Tree: A Novel of American Life (1931); There Is Confusion (1924).

Poems:

'Courage!' He Said (1929); Dead Fires (date?); La Vie C'est La Vie (1922); Rondeau (1912).

Short stories:

Double Trouble (1923); Emmy (1912 / 1913); My House and a Glimpse of My Life Therein (1914).

Essays:

Dark Algiers the White (1925–26); Impressions of the Second Pan-African Congress (1921); The Gift of Laughter (1925); What Europe Thought of the Pan-African Congress (1921).

 

Born on this day – Arthur Somers Roche:

 

Arthur Somers Roche

Writer

April 27, 1883 – February 17, 1935

Credits:

Books:

A Lady of Resource (1938); Among Those Present (1930); Callingham's Girl (1937); Come to My House (1927); Conspiracy (1934); Death Was a Wedding Guest (1942); Devil-may-care (1926); Find the Woman (1921); Hard to Get (1937); Honest Crook (1941); In The Money (1936); Loot (1916); Marriage For Two (1929); No Stockings (1928); Penthouse (1935); Plunder (1917); Ransom! (1918); Shadow Of Doubt (1935); Slander (1933); The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1934); The Eyes of the Blind (1919); The Great Abduction (1933); The Pleasure Buyers (1925); The Sport Of Kings (1917); The Star of Midnight (1940); The Woman Hunters (1929); The Wrong Wife (1932); Uneasy Street (1920).

Movies and television:

Any Woman (1925); Come to My House (1927); Find the Woman (1922); Finger Prints (1927); Kissed (1922); Living Lies (1922); Loot (1919); Man, Woman and Wife (1929); Over the Wire (1921); Penthouse (1933); Shadow of Doubt (1935); Society Lawyer (1939); Star of Midnight (1935); The Case Against Mrs. Ames (1936); The Day of Faith (1923); The Girl from Chicago (1927); The Gray Ghost (1917); The Gray Ghost (1917); The Mystery Club (1926); The Pleasure Buyers (1925); The Simp (1920); The Sport of Kings (1920); The Wise Wife (1927); Trail's End (1922); Wolf's Clothing (1927).

Born on this day – Florence La Badie:

Florence La Badie

Actress

April 27, 1888 – October 13, 1917

Credits:

A Beauty Parlor Graduate (1913); A Debut in the Secret Service (1914); A Deep Sea Liar (1913); A Disciple of Nietzsche (1915); A Freight Car Honeymoon (1915); A Gold Necklace (1910); A Knight of the Road (1911); A Leak in the Foreign Office (1914); A Love of Long Ago (1912); A Master of Millions (1911); A Mother's Faith (1911); A Noise Like a Fortune (1912); A Peaceful Victory (1913); A Poor Relation (1913); A Star Reborn (1912); A Strange Meeting (1909); A Twentieth Century Farmer (1913); Adrift in a Great City (1914); After the Ball (1910); All Aboard (1915); An Honest Young Man (1913); An Unromantic Maiden (1913); As It Was in the Beginning (1912); At the Crossroads of Life (1908); Aurora Floyd (1912); Beauty in the Seashell (1913); Beneath the Veil (1911); Bianca Forgets (1915); Big Sister (1912); Bobby, the Coward (1911); Called Back (1912); Cardinal Richelieu's Ward (1914); Cinderella (1911); Crossed Wires (1915); Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight (1913); Cymbeline (1913); Dave's Love Affair (1911); David Copperfield (1911); Divorce and the Daughter (1916); Dottie's New Doll (1912); Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912); East Lynne (1912); Enoch Arden: Part II (1911); Extravagance (1912); Fighting Blood (1911); Flying to Fortune (1912); For the Man She Loved (1913); From the Shadows (1914); Getting Even (1909); God's Witness (1915); Graft vs. Love (1915); Her Confession (1915); Her Gallant Knights (1913); Her Ladyship's Page (1912); Her Life and His (1917); Her Sacrifice (1911); Her Sister's Secret (1913); How She Triumphed (1911); In Blossom Time (1912); In the Chorus (1911); In the Nick of Time (1913); In the Window Recess (1909); In Their Hour of Need (1913); Jess (1912); Jilted (1912); Life's Pathway (1913); Little Brother (1913); Louie, the Life Saver (1913); Lucile (1912); Ma and Dad (1912); Madame Rex (1911); Mary's Goat (1912); Master Shakespeare, Strolling Player (1916); Miss Robinson Crusoe (1912); Monsieur Lecoq (1915); Monsieur Nikola Dupree (1915); Mr. Meeson's Will (1915); Mutual Weekly, No. 78 (1916); My Baby's Voice (1912); Oh! Such a Beautiful Ocean (1913); Paradise Lost (1911); Petticoat Camp (1912); Redemption (1913); Reincarnation (1915); Rejuvenation (1912); Retribution (1913); Rosie's Revenge (1913); Saint, Devil and Woman (1916); Serious Sixteen (1910); Some Fools There Were (1913); Swords and Hearts (1911); Taming a Husband (1910); Tannhäuser (1913); The Adventure of Florence (1915); The Adventures of a Diplomatic Freelance (1914); The Arab's Bride (1912); The Baseball Bug (1911); The Blight of Wealth (1913); The Blind Princess and the Poet (1911); The Broken Cross (1911); The Buddhist Priestess (1911); The Cat's Paw (1914); The Country Girl (1915); The County's Prize Baby (1912); The Cycle of Hatred (1915); The Diamond Star (1911); The Duel in the Dark (1915); The Elevator Man (1914); The Evidence of the Film (1913); The Fear of Poverty (1916); The Final Reckoning (1915); The Finger Prints of Fate (1915); The Five Faults of Flo (1916); The Fugitive (1916); The Girl of the Grove (1912); The Guilty Baby (1912); The Head Waiter (1913); The Indian Brothers (1911); The Junior Partner (1913); The Last of the Mohicans (1911); The Lie That Failed (1913); The Man Without a Country (1917); The Manicure Lady (1911); The Marble Heart (1913); The Merchant of Venice (1912); The Message to Headquarters (1913); The Million Dollar Mystery (1914); The Mohammedan's Conspiracy (1914); The Mystery of the Haunted Hotel (1913); The New Dress (1911); The Other Girl (1913); The Pillory (1916); The Politician's Love Story (1909); The Portrait of the Lady Anne (1912); The Pretty Girl in Lower Five (1913); The Price of Her Silence (1915); The Primal Call (1911); The Race (1912); The Return of Draw Egan (1916); The Ring of a Spanish Grandee (1912); The Rose of Kentucky (1911); The Saleslady (1912); The Salvation Army Lass (1909); The Satyr and the Lady (1911); The Seventh Day (1909); The Silent Witness (1912); The Six-Cent Loaf (1915); The Smuggled Diamond (1915); The Smuggler (1911); The Snare of Fate (1913); The Somnambulist (1914); The Sorrowful Example (1911); The Spanish Gypsy (1911); The Star of Bethlehem (1912); The Success of Selfishness (1914); The Tempest (1911); The Thief and the Girl (1911); The Trail of Books (1911); The Trouble Maker (1912); The Troublesome Baby (1910); The Two Paths (1911); The Two Sisters (1913); The Unfortunate Marriage (1917); The Voice of Conscience (1912); The Ward of the King (1913); The Water Cure (1913); The Way to a Man's Heart (1913); The Wrecked Taxi (1912); Their Golden Wedding (1914); Through the Breakers (1909); Through the Flames (1912); Turkey Trot Town (1914); Twins and a Stepmother (1914); Under False Colors (1914); Under Two Flags (1912); Undine (1912); Variety Time (1948); War and the Woman (1917); What Doris Did (1916); When a Count Counted (1912); When Love Was Blind (1917); When Mercy Tempers Justice (1912); When the Fleet Sailed (1915); When the Worm Turned (1913); Whom God Hath Joined (1912); Won at the Rodeo (1913).

Born on this day – Thomas H. Johnson:

 

Thomas H. Johnson

Writer

Teacher

Editor

April 27, 1902 – January 3, 1985

Credits:

Emily Dickinson: An Interpretative Biography (1955); Literary History of the United States (1948); The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960); The Oxford Companion to American History (1966).