Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson’s wife, was born on October 30, 1748.
On the same date two hundred twenty years later, American journalist, novelist and author Rose Wilder Lane died. Lane is perhaps best known, today, for her editorial work — some say “ghost writing” — of her mother’s Little House on the Prairie books for children. Her non-fiction The Discovery of Freedom was published in 1943, the same year as a similarly themed book, The God of the Machine, was published by her friend Isabel Paterson.
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Lane, Patterson, and Ayn Rand each published something of note in 1943. These works came before v. Hayek’s Road to Serfdom (1944) and v. Mises’s Human Action (1949), and very much helped to get a libertarian ball rolling. Some people go so far as to treat Lane, Patterson, and Rand as the founders of the libertarian movement as such.