20 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Emily Howland (20 Nov 1827 – 29 Jun 1929 | Sherwood NY – Sherwood NY) author, philanthropist, freed slave educator, humanitarian, advocate, women’s rights activist, first female director of any US national bank, first female LitD from University of the State of New York.

Charlotte Garrigue Masarykova (20 Nov 1850 – 13 May 1923 | Brooklyn NY – Prague CZ) author, Unitarian, women’s rights advocate, Presidential First Lady of Czechoslovakia.

Clara McDonald Williamson (20 Nov 1875 – 17 Feb 1976 | Iredall TX – Dallas TX) self-taught painter, American Naïve artist.

Rose Pesotta (20 Nov 1896 – 04 Dec 1965 | Derazhnia UA – Miami FL) author, anarchist, memoirist, feminist, labor organizer, vice-president of ILGWU [International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union].

19 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Ann Terry Greene Phillips (19 Nov 1813 – 24 Apr 1886 | Boston MA – Boston MA) nonviolent abolitionist, delegate to 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention, London.

Matilda Bradley Carse (19 Nov 1835 – 03 Jun 1917 | Saintfield IE – Park Hill-on-Hudson NY) Irish-American social reformer, women’s rights activist, businesswoman, founded Woman’s Temperance Publishing Association [WTPA].

Mary Ann Hallock Foote (19 Nov 1847 – 25 Jun 1938 | Milton NY – Hingham MA) author, illustrator, aka Dean of American Illustrators.

Grace Denio Litchfield (19 Nov 1849 – 04 Dec 1944 | Brooklyn NY – Goshen NY) poet, novelist.

18 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Henrietta Sargent (18 Nov 1785 – 11 Jan 1871 | Gloucester MA – Cambridge MA) abolitionist, founded Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society.

Susan Lincoln Tolman Mills (18 Nov 1826 – 12 Dec 1912 | Enosburg VT – Oakland CA) educator, missionary, co-founded Mills College for Women.

Amanda Akin Stearns (18 Nov 1827 – 02 Feb 1911 | Pawling NY – Pawling NY) author, US Civil War nurse, memoirist.

Abigail [Abbey] Perkins Cheney (18 Nov 1851 – unknown | Milwaukee WI – unknown) pianist, author, educator, innovative researcher into therapeutic physiological effects of playing piano.

17 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Eliza Woodson Burhans Farnham (17 Nov 1815 – 15 Dec 1846 | Rensselaerville NY – New York NY) novelist, feminist, abolitionist, women’s prison reform activist, first female warden of Sing Sing Prison.

Achsa W. Sprague (17 Nov 1827 – 06 Jul 1862 | Plymouth Notch VT – Plymouth Notch VT) poet, essayist, medium, lecturer, Spiritualist, abolitionist, suffragist.

Genie M. Boyce Smith (17 Nov 1852 – unknown | Vermont US – Dubuque IA) poet, author, novelist, publisher, pen names: Kit Clover and Maude Meredith.

Sophie Adelaide Radford de Meissner (17 Nov 1854 – 17 Apr 1954 | Morristown NJ – Washington DC) author, socialite, playwright, Spiritualist, Red Cross nurse [1905] Russo-Japanese War.

16 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Tyler Peabody Mann (16 Nov 1806 – 11 Feb 1887 | Cambridgeport MA – Jamaica Plain MA) author, educator, biographer, publisher, kindergarten reformer, Transcendentalist.

Minnie Hauk (16 Nov 1851 – 06 Feb 1929 | New York NY – Lucerne CH) memoirist, operatic soprano, born Amalia Mignon Hauck.

Lucy Wilmot Smith (16 Nov 1861 – 01 Dec 1889 | Lexington KY – Lexington KY) editor, teacher, historian, journalist, suffragist, social activist, African-American, women’s rights activist, unfinished book: Women and Their Achievements, one of first female office holder of American National Baptist Convention.

Edith Ogden Harrison (16 Nov 1862 – 22 May 1955 | New Orleans LA – Chicago IL) novelist, travel writer, children’s / fairy tales author, autobiographical author, children’s theater collaborator.

15 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Ellen Louise Curtis Demorest (15 Nov 1824 – 10 Aug 1898 | Schuylerville NY – New York NY) milliner, fashion arbiter, magazine founder, tissue paper sewing pattern inventor / innovator.

Elizabeth [Lily] Benton Frémont (15 Nov 1842 – 28 May 1919 | Washington DC – Los Angeles CA) memoirist, letter correspondent, political family member.

Mary Emma Byrd (15 Nov 1849 – 13 Jul 1934 | Le Roy MI – Lawrence KS) author, educator, astronomer, photographer.

Margaret Amanada Haley (15 Nov 1861 – 05 Jan 1939 | Joliet IL – Chicago IL) teacher, unionist, teachers’ organizer, anti-corporate tax evasion, aka Lady Labor Slugger, first female / teacher to speak to National Education Association, first business representative of Chicago Teachers’ Federation.

Sara Josephine Baker (15 Nov 1873 – 22 Feb 1945 | Poughkeepsie NY – Princeton NJ) author, physician, essayist, lesbian, feminist, autobiographer, children’s public health activist / reformer, twice tracked down Typhoid Mary for quarantine.

14 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Josephine Louise Van der Schrieck (14 Nov 1813 – 03 Dec 1886 | Bergen-op-Zoom NL – Cincinnati OH) Catholic nun / leader / educator, member of Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.

Madeleine Lemoyne Ellicott (14 Nov 1856 – 1945 | Chicago IL – Baltimore MD) suffragist, political activist, founder / president League of Women Voters of Maryland, co-organized Pan-American Conference of Women [1922].

Isabel Bevier (14 Nov 1860 – 17 Mar 1942 | Plymouth OH – Urbana IL) author, pioneer university home economics educator / administrator.

Claribel Cone (14 Nov 1864 – 20 Sep 1929 | Jonesboro TN – Baltimore MD) German-American art collector, physician, pathologist.

Anna Magdalena Plehn Meyer (14 Nov 1867 – 18 Aug 1941 | Neumark PRU – Milwaukee WI) poet, hymnist, German-English translator of hymns.

13 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth Porter Todd Edwards (13 Nov 1813 – 22 Feb 1888 | Lexington KY – Springfield IL) Mary Todd Lincoln’s sister, guardian, helper, aided Mary’s release from insane asylum.

Helen Archibald Clarke (13 Nov 1860 – 08 Feb 1926 | Philadelphia PA – Boston MA) poet, author, editor, literary critic.

Ariadna Vladimirovna Tyrkova-Williams (13 Nov 1869 – 12 Jan 1962 | Saint Petersburg RU – Washington DC) editor, writer, feminist, fundraiser, journalist, memoirist, biographer, liberal politician, women’s rights activist, member of All-Russian Union for Women’s Equality, co-founded Russian Liberation Committee in London UK.

Laura Hughes Lunde (13 Nov 1866 – 16 Jan 1966 | Toronto ON – Chicago IL) pacifist, feminist, socialist, civic reformer, Canadian-American, co-founded Canadian Labor Party and Canadian Women’s Peace Party.

Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd (13 Nov 1876 – 04 Sep 1962 | Athol MA – Pippa Passes KY) educator, journalist, social reformer, founded Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes KY.

12 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Margaret Cochran Corbin (12 Nov 1751 – 16 Jan 1800 | Chambersburg PA – Highland Falls NY) aka Captain Molly, American Revolutionary War heroic vivandière, first-ever female US veteran disability pensioner.

Letitia Christian Tyler (12 Nov 1790 – 10 Sep 1842 | near Richmond VA – Washington DC) Southern belle, staunch Episcopalian, First Lady of Virginia, US Presidential First Lady.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (12 November 1815 – 26 October 1902 | Johnstown NY – New York NY) author, editor, essayist, speaker, abolitionist, social activist / reformer, women’s rights activist / leader. 

Malvina Sarah Black Waring (12 Nov 1842 – 06 Dec 1930 | Newberry SC – Platteville WI) serial novelist.

Hope Emily Allen (12 Nov 1883 – 01 Jul 1960 | Kenwood NY – Oneida NY) scholar of medieval history, discovered manuscript of the Book of Margery Kempe.

11 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth Doughton Reeves (11 Nov 1799 – 30 Dec 1892 | Grayson County VA – Omaha NE) social activist, first female physician in Nebraska.

Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta (11 Nov 1815 – 23 Mar 1891 | Bennington VT – New York NY) poet, critic, writer, teacher, socialite, literary circle figure, Barnard College co-founder, memoirs published posthumously.

Mathilda L. Mahurin (11 Nov 1827 – 16 Apr 1916 | Miami OH – Elkhart IN) teacher, Methodist activist.

Anna Katharine Green Rohlfs (11 Nov 1846 – 11 Apr 1935 | Brooklyn NY – Buffalo NY) poet, novelist, short fiction writer, pioneer detective fiction author, aka Mother of the Detective Novel.

Julia Brainerd Hall (11 Nov 1859 – 04 Sep 1926 | Jamaica – Rochester NY) artist, chemist, musician, still-life painter, co-developer of Hall Process for extracting aluminium from its ore.