26 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell (26 Feb 1849 – 22 Jul 1883 | Holly Springs MS – Holly Springs MS) novelist, feminist, short story writer.


Alice Mabel Bacon (26 Feb 1858 – 01 May 1918 | New Haven CT – New Haven CT) nonfiction author, foreign advisor to Japan, international women’s educator.


Lavinia Lloyd Dock (26 Feb 1858 – 17 Apr 1956 | Harrisburg PA – Chambersburg PA) nurse, author, feminist, women’s rights activist, nursing education pioneer, helped form National League of Nursing, contributing editor to American Journal of Nursing.


Mabel Ganson Evans Dodge Sterne Luhan (26 Feb 1879 – 13 Aug 1962 | Buffalo NY – Taos NM) author, hostess, memoirist, patron of women’s arts / artists / writers, Native American culture promoter, pioneer US psychoanalysis patient.


Elizabeth Hawley Gasque Van Exem (26 Feb 1886 – 02 Nov 1989 | Blythewood SC – Ridgeway SC) author, lecturer, politician, first female SC State Representative, longest lived member of US House or Senate.