20 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

Sarah [Sally] Wister (20 Jul 1761 – 21 Apr 1804 | Philadelphia PA – Germantown PA) diarist, Quaker, journal writer.


Laura Keene (20 Jul 1826 – 04 Nov 1873 | Winchester UK – Montclair NJ) actress, innovator, impresario, theater manager, born Mary Frances Moss.


Philomène Belliveau (20 Jul 1854 – 17 Mar 1940 | Memramcook NB – Rimouski QC) Acadian artist, portrait painter.


Hortense Sparks Ward (20 Jul 1872 – 05 Dec 1944 | Matagorda TX – Houston TX) writer, lawyer, suffragist, pamphleteer, women’s rights activist, first female attorney admitted to Texas bar, first female registered voter in Harris County, Special Chief Justice of first woman’s Appellate Court of Texas.


Anne Ryan McFadden (20 Jul 1889 – 18 Apr 1954 | Hoboken NJ – Morristown NJ) artist, painter, collagist, printmaker.