Laura Ingalls Wilder, the author of the biographical series, Little House on the Prairie, had a daughter born on December 5, 1886. Her daughter was Rose Wilder, later Rose Wilder Lane. Lane was a writer, possibly a writer earlier than her mom became one. One thing Rose Wilder Lane wrote was travel articles, like the one in Travel World, published in 1923, where she described a friend who loved lilacs, 'like a cat loves catnip."
Onora Sylvia O'Neill (August 23, 1941) is a British thinker. She studied at Oxford and received a doctorate from Harvard. After a noted career, in 1992, she accepted the post of Principal of N ewnham College, Cambridge, and since 2006 she has been Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge. Her 1997 paper, "Environmental Values, Anthroporphism, and Speciesism" contains a timely argument in which Dr. O'Neill, (she prefers that title to the "Baroness" to which her elevation to the peerage allows) points out inadequacies in the use of the term speciesism to argue against according humans more ethical rights than aspects of the non human world. A viewpoint that puts " a person torturing a cat is on a par with a cat torturing a bird," is not one she finds supportable. The link is to a downloadable version of this paper. We have this picture of Onora O'Neill, in 2002, at Newnham College: We meet in the Principal's lodge at Ne
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