1676 - Mary Rowlandson is released from her captivity by Indians in King Philips War. She published the tales of her captivity in 1682. Her tale is the first in the genre of captivity narratives. In 1676, a group of Nipmunk and Narragansett Indians attacked the town of Lancaster, where Mary Rowlandson a/k/a Mary White was living, burned the town and captured many of the settlers. Rowlandson and her three children were among them. Three months after her capture, she was ransomed for 20. Her daughter, Sarah (6), died in captivity from her wounds, and her two surviving children were released soon after.
1858 - Edith Anna Oenone Somervile was born in Castle Townshend, Ireland and was brought up in her familys 18th century house in West Cork. She was a suffragist, a huntswoman (she was the first woman master of foxhounds and was master of the West Carberry Pack), was president of the Munster Womens Franchise League, was an artist (she trained as an artist in London and Paris and exhibited her work as an artist in the 1920s and 1930s, and she was a lesbian (she was companion to lesbian composer Ethel Smyth) .
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