08 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson (08 Feb 1825 – 22 Dec 1911 | Boston MA – Malden MA) poet, author, mill girl, bobbin doffer, social activist, suffragist leader.


Cornelia Hancock (08 Feb 1840 – 31 Dec 1927 | Hancock’s Bridge NJ – Atlantic City NJ) author, memoirist, social activist, Civil War Union nurse, educator, school founder.


Katherine [Kate] O’Flaherty Chopin (08 Feb 1850 – 22 Aug 1904 | St Louis MO – St Louis MO) novelist, feminist, short story writer.


Kate Thomson Cory (08 Feb 1861 – 12 Jun 1958 | Waukegan IL – Prescott AZ) painter, photographer, lived in / focused on Hopi villages in Southwest USA.


Maud Slye (08 Feb 1869 – 17 Sep 1954 | Minneapolis MN – Chicago IL) poet, musician, pathologist, cancer researcher, 1923 Nobel Laureate.