5 Sunday

November

Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell, the first woman divinity student at Oberlin College, who was deeply in love with feminist Lucy Stone, dies at ninety-six, 1921.

6 Monday

Adolphe Belot, French author of the classic lesbian novel Mlle. Giraud, born at Pointe-à-Patre, 1829.

7 Tuesday

Election Day

Poet Ruth Pitter, whose works are not as well known in America as they should be, born in England, 1897.

8 Wednesday

Emma Crow, minor American sculptor whose birth and death dates are long forgotten, but who spent much of her

life in Italy where she was part of the lesbian circle of Charlotte Cushman, is here commemorated.

9 Thursday

In Montana, a man named Mahaffey takes a fourteen-year-old boy to bed at his ranch and is convicted of "the infamous crime against nature," 1877.

10 Friday

Jennette Lee, author of early short stories with lesbian themes, born in Bristol, Connecticut, 1860.

11 Saturday

Remembrance Day (Canada)

Veterans Day

Senator David I. Walsh, chairman of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, who was discovered to be a regular client at a raided male whorehouse near the Brooklyn Navy Yard, born in Leoninster, Massachusetts, 1872.

Sen. David I. Walsh:

A patron of the house on Pacific Street.