22 May | Herstorical.Reflections

Charity Bryant (22 May 1777 – 06 Oct 1851 | North Bridgewater MA – Weybridge VT) poet, teacher, focus on acrostic poetry, Boston marriage partner with Sylvia Drake.


Gertrude Jane Hall Denny (22 May 1837 – 05 Aug 1933 | Ten Mile Run NJ – Portland OR) author, Whitman Massacre survivor, wife of US Consul-General to Shanghai, co-importer of first Chinese pheasants to US soil.


Mary Stevenson Cassatt (22 May 1844 – 14 Jun 1926 | Allegheny City PA – Château de Beaufresne FR) painter, printmaker, pioneering American Impressionist.


Bertha Honoré Potter Palmer (22 May 1849 – 05 May 1918 | Louisville KY – Osprey FL) art collector, clubwoman, philanthropist.


Lucy May Stanton (22 May 1875 – 19 Mar 1931 | Atlanta GA – Athens GA) watercolorist, miniature portrait artist, large-scale landscapes / still life painter.