28 Dec | Herstorical.Reflections

Elizabeth [Eliza] Lucas Pinckney Rutledge (28 Dec 1722 – 26 May 1793 | Antigua – Philadelphia PA) agriculturist, businesswoman, plantation owner / manager, introduced indigo as cash crop into South Carolina economy.


Catharine Maria Sedgwick (28 Dec 1789 – 31 Jul 1867 | Stockbridge MA – Boston MA) novelist, domestic fiction writer, Republican motherhood advocate.


Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard (28 Dec 1816 – 25 Jul 1897 | Ware MA – Chicago IL) author, committed by her husband / spent three years in an insane asylum, founded Anti-Insane Asylum Society, women’s mental health rights activist, advocate for those falsely accused of being insane.


Joanna Ellen Wood (28 Dec 1867 – 01 May 1927 | Lesmahagow SCOT – Detroit MI) Scottish-born Canadian, author, feminist, novelist.