Harriet Powers, a slave-born African American woman, made two famous story quilts.

* October 29 – Harriet Powers, African-American folk artist ( d. 1910 )

* Beverly Powers ...... Harriet Williams

During the 19th century, Harriet Powers made quilts in rural Georgia, United States that are now considered among the finest examples of 19th-century Southern quilting.

Harriet Powers, Bible quilt, Mixed Media.

Harriet Powers 1837 – 1910 was an African American folk artist and quilt maker from rural Georgia, United States born into slavery.

Walker's silhouette images work to bridge unfinished folklore in the Antebellum South and are reminiscent of the earlier work of Harriet Powers.

These artists included Horatio Greenough ( 1805 – 1852 ), Hiram Powers ( 1805 – 1873 ), Thomas Crawford ( 1814 – 1857 ), Thomas Ball ( 1819 – 1911 ) and his son-in-law William Couper ( 1853 – 1942 ), Harriet Hosmer ( 1830 – 1908 ), Chauncey Ives ( 1810 – 1894 ), Randolph Rogers ( 1825 – 1892 ) and ( somewhat later ) William Henry Rinehart ( 1825 – 1874 ).

Famed African American quilter Harriet Powers also attended this day and met with Irvine Garland Penn, the chief of the Negro Building at the Expo.

In 1937 the gravestone for Harriet Tubman Davis was erected by the Empire State Federation of Women's Clubs ; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

In 1937, he began his clinical training in pediatrics at the Harriet Lane Service at Johns Hopkins University.

* 1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.

* 1945 – Harriet Miers, American lawyer, 31st White House Counsel

* 1895 – Harriet Cohen, British pianist ( d. 1967 )

* 1878 – Harriet Bosse, Swedish – Norwegian actress ( d. 1961 )

* Harriet Vane – protagonist, a mystery writer

She also had a half-brother, Robert ( 1802 – 64 ), and half-sister, Fanny ( 1805 – 82 ), from her father's previous marriage to Harriet Poynton (? 1780 – 1809 ).

* 1963 – Harriet Wheeler, English singer ( The Sundays )

* 1802 – Harriet Martineau, English theorist and writer ( d. 1876 )

* 1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.

* 1909 – Harriet Nelson, American singer and actress ( d. 1994 )

In the original series, which ran on Radio 4 from 1973 – 83, no adaptation was made of the seminal Gaudy Night, perhaps because the leading character in this novel is Harriet and not Peter ; this was corrected in 2005 when a version specially recorded for the BBC Radio Collection was released starring Carmichael and Joanna David.

* 1875 – Harriet Quimby, American aviatrix ( d. 1912 )

* Harriet ( 1797 – 1844 )

* 1807 – Harriet Taylor Mill, English feminist philosopher ( d. 1858 )

* A translation of the letters of Gerbert ( 982 – 987 ) with introduction and notes, Harriet Pratt Lattin, tr., Columbus, OH, H. L. Hedrick, 1932.

* 1876 – Harriet Shaw Weaver, English activist ( d. 1961 )

* 1849 – American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.

His sister Jane Bowdler ( 1743 – 1784 ) was a poet and essayist, and another sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler ( Harriet ) ( 1750 – 1830 ) collaborated with Bowdler on his expurgated Shakespeare.

* July 1 – Harriet Quimby, American aviator ( b. 1875 )

* March 10 – Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist ( b. 1820 )

* October 14 – Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist ( b. 1876 )

Several editions featuring Newton's first three stanzas and the verse previously included by Harriet Beecher Stowe in Uncle Tom's Cabin were published by Excell between 1900 and 1910, and his version of " Amazing Grace " became the standard form of the song in American churches.

In 1908, they summered in Fiesole, Italy, Toklas staying with Harriet Lane Levy, the companion of her trip from the United States, and her housemate until Alice moved in with Stein and Leo in 1910.

Toklas arrived in 1907 with Harriet Levy, with Toklas maintaining living arrangements with Levy until she moved to 27 Rue de Fleurus in 1910.

Pioneer aviatrices include French, Raymonde de Laroche, the world's first licensed female pilot on March 8, 1910 ; Belgian, Helene Dutrieu, the first woman to fly a passenger, first woman to win an air race ( 1910 ), and first woman to pilot a seaplane ( 1912 ); French, Marie Marvingt the first woman to fly solo across the English Channel and the North Sea in a balloon ( October 26, 1909 ) and first woman to fly as a bomber pilot in combat missions ( 1915 ); American, Harriet Quimby, the USA's first licensed female pilot in 1911, and the first woman to cross the English Channel by airplane ; American Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic ( 1932 ); Bessie Coleman, the first African American female to become a licensed airplane pilot ( 1921 ); German, Marga von Etzdorf, first woman to fly for an airline ( 1927 ); Opal Kunz, one of the few women to train US Navy fighter pilots during World War II in the Civilian Pilot Training Program ; and the British Amy Johnson, the first woman to fly solo from Britain to Australia ( 1930 ).

Deciding to emigrate, the couple and their children moved to Australia's New South Wales in 1878, but it was here that Mary died after a few years, and so in 1886 Stephen remarried, this time to Harriet Eliza Gordon ( 1853 – 1910 ), an Englishwoman from a wealthy background who had moved to Australia when still a child.

In July 1910 his mother, Harriet Childe, died, and his father took a woman named Monica Gardiner to be his third wife soon after.

The pen name, Dornford Yates, first in print in 1910, resulted from combining the surnames of his grandmothers — the paternal Eliza Mary Dornford, and the maternal Harriet Yates.

Composed mainly between February 1910 and July or August 1911, the poem was first published in Chicago in the June 1915 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, after Ezra Pound, the magazine's foreign editor, persuaded Harriet Monroe, its founder, that Eliot was unique: " He has actually trained himself AND modernized himself ON HIS OWN.

Bolstered by the support of Boston socialite Harriet Hemenway and President Theodore Roosevelt, an avowed Audubon Society sympathizer, and a widespread letter-writing campaign driven by church associations, many of whom distributed the Audubon message in their various newsletters, the plume trade was halted by such laws as the New York State Audubon Plumage Law ( May 1910 ), which banned the sales of plumes of all native birds in the state.

The original statue, loaned to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston by George Robert White in 1910 and bequeathed to the MFA in 1930 by White's sister, Mrs. Harriet J. Bradbury, is now on display in the MFA's new Arts of the Americas Wing.

* Taylor Upton, Harriet, History of the Western Reserve, New York: Lewis Publishing Co., 1910, ISBN 978-0-8328-5091-2 ( 1996 edition ).

On 3 August 1910, he married Harriet " Hattie " Sterling in Stockton.