13 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Linda Gilbert (13 May 1847 – 24 Oct 1895 | Rochester NY – Mount Vernon NY) poet, inventor, welfare worker, prison reformer, prison library activist.

Ellen Spencer Mussey (13 May 1850 – 21 Apr 1936 | Geneva OH – Washington DC) lawyer, educator, women’s rights / law education activist, Spencerian Handwriting reformer / promoter.

Margaret Marshall Saunders (13 May 1861 – 15 Feb 1947 | Milton NS – Toronto ON) lecturer, romance novelist, children’s author, animal rights advocate.

Jenny Eakin Delony Rice (13 May 1866 – 01 Apr 1949 | Washington AR – Little Rock AR) painter, educator, aka Jenny Myrowitz.

Fay Kellogg (13 May 1871 – 10 Jul 1918 | Milton PA – Brooklyn NY) architect, steel construction specialist, pioneering female architect, women artists’ advocate.

12 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sister Mary Irene FitzGibbon (12 May 1823 – 14 Aug 1896 | London UK – New York NY) teacher, Sister of Charity, founding director New York Foundling Hospital, born Catherine Rosamund FitzGibbon.

Sarah Elizabeth Van der Vort Emery (12 May 1838 – 10 Oct 1895 | Phelps NY – Lansing MI) editor, writer, speaker, suffragist, Universalist, Populist campaigner, Women’s Temperance Union leader.

Matilda Coxe Evans Stevenson (12 May 1849 – 24 Jun 1915 | San Augine TX – Oxon Hill MD) author, ethnologist, Zuni expert / researcher, Women’s Anthropological Society of America president, aka Tilly E. Stevenson.

Louise Phelps Kellogg (12 May 1862 – 11 Jul 1942 | Milwaukee WI – Madison WI) writer, educator, historian.

Ann Bassett (12 May 1878 – 08 May 1956 | Moffat County CO – Leeds UT) folk figure, rancher, cattle rustler, Sundance Kid cohort, Wild Bunch member, alias Etta Place, aka Queen Ann.

11 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Letitia Tyler Semple (11 May 1821 – 28 Dec 1907 | Cedar Grove Plantation VA – Baltimore MD) founder / principal Eclectic Institute for Young Women, White House hostess for father President John Tyler.

Caroline Clement [Carroll] Watson Rankin (11 May 1864 – 13 Aug 1945 | Marquette MI – Marquette MI) reporter, novelist, short story writer.

Harriet Quimby (11 May 1875 – 01 Jul 1912 | Arcadia MI – Quincy MA) aviator, journalist, drama critic, screenwriter.

Alma Gluck Zimbalist (11 May 1884 – 27 Oct 1938 | Iasi RO – Manhattan NY) editor, operatic soprano, née Reba Feinsohn.

Martha Graham (11 May 1894 – 01 Apr 1991 | Allegheny PA – New York NY) dancer, choreographer, autobiographical author, aka The Dancer of the Century.

10 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah Anne Worthington King Peter (10 May 1800 – 06 Feb 1877 | Chillicothe OH – Cincinnati OH) artist, memoirist, patron of arts, philanthropist, Civil War Union nurse, Catholic convert / activist, founded Philadelphia School of Design for Women [now Moore College of Art & Design].

Lucy Louisa Flower (10 May 1837 – 27 Apr 1921 | Boston MA – Coronado CA) teacher, draftswoman, social justice activist, Chicago Board of Education member, launched Lake Geneva Fresh Air Association, founded women / children’s legal aid bureau, first woman elected to Illinois state office.

Mary [May] French Sheldon (10 May 1847 – 10 Feb 1936 | Bridgewater PA – West Kensington UK) author, explorer, essayist, publisher, translator, short fiction writer.

Emma Payne Erskine (10 May 1854 – 04 Mar 1924 | Racine WI – Tryon NC) author, peace activist, romance novelist, short story writer, patriotic Christian writer.

Sue Hastings (10 May 1884 – 1977 | Monticello NY – Coral Gables FL) artisan, master puppeteer, professor of puppetry, founder / CEO Sue Hastings Marionettes Inc.

09 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Eliza Seaman Leggett (09 May 1815 – 08 Feb 1900 | New York NY – Detroit MI) social activist, suffragist, abolitionist, Underground Railroad worker, public restrooms and public drinking fountain advocate.

Harriet Rebecca Lane Johnston (09 May 1830 – 03 Jul 1903 | Franklin County PA – Narragansett RI) fine art collector, arts / music advocate, Native American reservation activist, acting US Presidential First Lady for uncle James Buchanan, children’s hospital founder, founded Washington Cathedral School for Choir Boys, aka First Lady of National Collection of Fine Arts.

Mary Eno Bassett Mumford (09 May 1842 – 09 May 1935 | Litchfield CT – New Britain CT) author, activist, editor, teacher.

Fanny Titus Hazen (09 May 1840 – 20 Jan 1930 | Vershire VT – Cambridge MA) Civil War nurse, suffragist, president Army Nurse Association of Massachusetts, member of Woman’s Relief Corps / Cambridge Equal Suffrage League.

Isabella Maria [Belle] Boyd (09 May 1844 – 11 Jun 1900 | Martinsburg VA [now WV] – Kilbourn [now Wisconsin Dells] WI) spy, lecturer, memoirist, aka Cleopatra of the Secession, Siren of the Shenandoah.

08 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Phillis Wheatley (08 May 1753 – 05 Dec 1784 | Gambia or Senegal AF – Boston MA) poet, letter correspondent, first female African-American published author.

Ella Elvira Gibson (08 May 1821 – 08 Mar 1901 | Winchendon MA – Barre MA) poet, editor, educator, essayist, Freethinker, pamphleteer, ordained minister, first female US Army chaplain.

Augusta Evans Wilson (08 May 1835 – 09 May 1909 | Columbus GA – Mobile AL) author, novelist, Southern literature pioneer.

Lucretia Longshore Blankenburg (08 May 1845 – 29 Mar 1937 | New Lisbon OH – Philadelphia PA) author, club woman, civic leader, social activist, genealogist, political family member.

Mary Alice Bird Babb (08 May 1850 – 21 Nov 1926 | Mount Pleasant IA – Aurora IL) women’s education activist, founding member Philanthropic Educational Organization [PEO].

07 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Juliet Ann Opie Hopkins (07 May 1818 – 09 Mar 1890 | Jefferson County WV – Washington DC) US Civil War Confederate nurse, aka Florence Nightingale of the South.

Harriet Starr Cannon (07 May 1823 – 29 Mar 1896 | Charleston SC – Peekskill NY) religious, school founder, children’s advocate, spiritual leader / organizer, founded Episcopalian Sisterhood of St Mary.

Euphemia Vale Blake (07 May 1824 – 21 Oct 1904 | Hastings UK – Brooklyn NY) critic, author, editor, journalist, British-born American.

Varina Banks Howell Davis (07 May 1826 – 16 Oct 1906 | Natchez MS – New York NY) writer, memoirist, columnist, Confederate States First Lady, post-war reconciliation activist.

Margaret Elizabeth [Lizzie] Crozier French (07 May 1851 – 14 May 1926 | Knoxville TN – Washington DC) educator, suffragist, social reform activist.

06 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard (06 May 1823 – 01 Aug 1902 | Mattapoisett MA – Manhattan NY) poet, novelist.

Phebe Coffin Hanaford (06 May 1829 – 02 Jun 1921 | Siasconset MA – Rochester NY) poet, author, minister, suffragist, Universalist.

Estelle Skidmore Doremus (06 May 1830 – 21 May 1905 | New York NY – Brooklyn NY) patron of arts, Daughters of the American Revolution regent / charter member, leading member of Americans in Paris during Second French Empire.

Mary Clemmer Ames (06 May 1831 – 18 Aug 1884 | Utica NY – Washington DC) poet, author, journalist.

Annetta Seabury Dresser (06 May 1844 – 10 May 1893 | Boston MA – Boston MA) author, speaker, pioneering New Thought practitioner.

05 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Judith Sargent Murray (05 May 1751 – 09 Jun 1820 | Gloucester MA – Natchez MS) poet, essayist, feminist, playwright, letter writer, pioneering women’s rights advocate.

Ella Sterling Mighels (05 May 1853 – 10 Dec 1934 | Mormon Island CA – San Francisco CA) author, California pioneer, literary historian, pen name: Aurora Esmerelda.

Mary Virginia McCormick (05 May 1861 – 24 May 1941 | Chicago IL – Pacific Palisades CA) heiress, traveler, millionaire recluse, declared mentally incompetent at age 19, daughter of industrialist Cyrus McCormick.

Adelaide Florence Chase (05 May 1862 – 23 Feb 1900 | Fitchburg MA – Boston MA) author, editor, historian, publisher, member of US Women’s Relief Corps.

Elizabeth Cochran Seaman (05 May 1864 – 27 Jan 1922 | Cochran’s Mills PA – New York NY) inventor, novelist, industrialist, charity worker, pen name Nellie Bly, pioneering investigative journalist.

04 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Elizabeth Surratt (04 May 1823 – 07 Jul 1865 | Waterloo MD – Washington DC) boarding house owner / operator, historical / political folk figure, tried as Lincoln assassination co-conspirator, first American female executed by hanging.

Julia Britton Hooks (04 May 1852 – 10 Mar 1942 | Frankfort KY – Memphis TN) pianist, social worker, civil rights leader, juvenile court officer, second female African-American US college graduate, founded Julia Hooks Cottage School and Julia Hooks School of Music.

Mary Ellis Peltz (04 May 1896 – 24 Oct 1981 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, editor, author, music / drama critic, founding editor Opera News magazine.

Joy Bright Hancock (04 May 1898 – 20 Aug 1986 | Wildwood NJ – Bethesda MD) pilot, WAVES activist, early female Naval officer, autobiographical author.

Bernice Mildred Goetz (04 May 1909 – 30 Dec 1958 | Cleveland OH – Brooklyn NY) poet, author, teacher, lecturer, explorer.