For International Women's Day

Clara Hazel Minton was a lady who lived in the Twenties. I wanted to do something for international women's day and decided that a woman who came before me in my family should be the subject. She was nothing special in terms of having done anything very noteworthy in public life but she is an example, among many in my family, of all women who lived, loved, struggled, gave birth, kept families together through difficult periods and passed on strong genes to future generations.

George Eliot, in Middlemarch, wrote beautifully the words I would like to have said about Clara:

"Her finely touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were
not widely visible. Her full nature, like that river of which Cyrus
broke the strength, spent itself in channels which had no great name on
the earth. But the effect of her being on those around her was
incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly
dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you
and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived
faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."