The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-12-24
CENTENAR1Es OF FAMOUS WOMEN.


Never before, perhaps, has any one year at
forded occasion for the celebration of the cen
tenaries of so many famous women as in the
case of the year about to begin. The bead roll OF
the women born century ago-in the year 1919
who won distinction for themselves in various
lines of high endeavor is an interesting list and
their work is worth recalling.
First on the list stands the name of Queen Vic
toria, who occupied the throne of Britain for
nearly sixty-five years, and whose death in 1901
occasioned worldwide sorrow. All the world OF
the present has accepted the term Victorian
era as representative of the fullness of the nine
teenth century. Thirty-sx years of the century
had gone when the young queen took the throne,
but they were years that had meant little of the
fullfllment of time allotted to her rule. She
outlived every sovereign who sat upon throne
in the year of her>coronation.
In November next the George Eliot" centen-
airy will be celebrated by the Englsh-speaking
world. George Eliot" of all women is the great
est writer the world has ever known. She is al
so of the very greatest writer's the world
has ever known, whether of woman or men. With
Scott, Dickens and Thackeray, she gave to the
literature of the nineteenth century its predom-
inant character and made it essentially litera-
ture of romance.
In May, 1919, was born Julia Ward Howe,
author of the immortal Battle Hymn of the Re
public" and of the last of the types of Amer
icas golden age of literature. During the course
Of her long life, Mrs. Howe at the very fore
front of many movements which had to do with
American literature, philanthropy and the enan-
cipation of her She had the deserved priv
ilege of associating with the most distinguished
and ,off CIo
the champion of almost every good cause and
no woman did more for the advancement of her
sex this side of the Atlantic.
One of the most successful American novelists
of her day Susan Warner, born in New York
City in 1919 At an early age she evinced decid-
ed literary talent. Her first novel, 1.-THE Wide
Wide World, was published under the pen name
of Elizabeth Wetherell' in 1849 and attained a
phenomenal and continued popularity, being
translated into French and German
Eunice Powers Cutter, widely known in her
day as reformer, was born at Warren, Mass,
in 1919. In her early married life she travelled
throughout New England lecturing to women
on the laws OF health In 1856, she and her hus-
band removed to Kansas in the interest of the
Emigrant Aid Society and as friends of the Free
State Party. She furnished to John Brown the
cartridges used in the Osawatomie fight and was
the custodian and messenger of the first ac-
counts of Kansas affairs forwarded to the East
Eliza Pratt Greatorex, one of the first Amer
lean women to attain success and fame as a
painter was born in the year 1919. She was a
native of Ireland, but came to the United States
IN early womanhood. She first applied herself
to landscape painting and subsequently took up
pen-and-lnk work and etching. Mrs. Greatorex
had the distinction of being the first woman to
be elected associate of the National Academy of
Design.