18 Apr | Women.Bourne.Works

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Mary [Katherine] Baptist Russell (18 Apr 1829 – 06 Aug 1898 | Bewry IE – San Francsico CA) educator, Sister of Mercy, religious activist, founded home for infirm.

Marion Foster Welch (18 Apr 1851 – 09 Jul 1935 | Pittsburgh PA – Pittsburgh PA) pianist, composer, lecturer, piano teacher, curator of Stephen Foster Memorial.

Clara Elsene Peck Williams (18 Apr 1883 – 24 Feb 1968 | Allegan MI – Gettysburg PA) painter, etcher, illustrator, comics artist, watercolorist.

Edna Hall Scott Kump (18 Apr 1887 – 19 Jan 1957 | Elkins WV – Elkins WV) gardener, First Lady of West Virginia.

Lucile McVey Drew (18 Apr 1890 – 03 Nov 1925 | Sedalia MO – Los Angeles CA) actress, knitter, comedian, director, producer, screenwriter, aka Jane Morrow, Mrs. Sidney Drew.

17 Apr | Women.Bourne.Works

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Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper (17 Apr 1813 – 31 Dec 1894 | Scarsdale NY – Cooperstown NY) novelist, naturalist, orphanage founder / facilitator.

Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy (17 Apr 1837 – 13 Apr 1900 | Quincy FL – Mobile AL) poet, pen name Kamba Thorpe.

Isabel Chapin Barrows (17 Apr 1845 – 25 Oct 1913 | Irasburg VT – Croton-on-Hudson NY) editor, activist, novelist, essayist, lecturer, missionary, political activist, hydrotherapist.

Anna Garlin Spencer (17 Apr 1851 – 12 Feb 1931 | Attleboro MA – New York NY) author, educator, feminist, Unitarian minister, peace activist / leader.

Helen Everett Peabody Grant (17 Apr 1861 – 06 May 1910 | Keytesville Landing MO – Beausoleil FR) artist, painter.

16 Apr | Women.Bourne.Works

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Sarah Ann Major Harris Fayerweather (16 Apr 1812 – 16 Nov 1878 | Norwich CT – Kingston RI) African-American activist, abolitionist, school integrationist.

Martha McClellan Brown (16 Apr 1838 – 31 Aug 1916 | Baltimore MD – Dayton OH) newspaper publisher, temperance activist, women’s college vice-president, Ohio Temperance leader.

Ida Elizabeth Smith Noyes (16 Apr 1853 – 05 Dec 1912 | Croton DE – Chicago IL) poet, speaker, club woman, member of Daughters of the American Revolution.

Mary Ellen Britton (16 Apr 1855 – 27 Aug 1925 | Lexington KY – Lexington KY) educator, suffragist, journalist, columnist, civil rights activist, first female African-American physician in Lexington, original member of KY Negro Education Association.

Emily Susan Hartwell (16 Apr 1859 – 02 Oct 1951 | Foochow CN – Oberlin OH) philanthropist, relief worker, orphanage founder, educational missionary, founder / teacher of girls’ school at Ponasang.

Grace Anne Bower anniebower71@gmail.com Hill (16 Apr 1865 – 01 Jan 1947 | Wellsville NY – Swarthmore PA) aka Marcia Macdonald, Christian novelist / short story writer.

15 Apr | Women.Bourne.Works

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Catherine Carney Sager Pringle (15 Apr 1835 – 08 Aug 1910 | Union County OH – Spokane WA) diarist, pioneer, memoirist, survivor.

Ann Maria Miles Sprague (15 Apr 1837 – 27 Nov 1917 | Petersham MA – Westminster MA) educator.

Arabella H. Tucker (15 Apr 1857 – 12 Jun 1936 | North Brookfield MA – Auburn MA) author, botanist, educator, suffragist, clubwoman.

Milicent Washburn Shinn (15 Apr 1858 – 14 Aug 1940 | Niles CA – Alameda County CA) author, literary editor, child psychologist, early childhood development expert.

Emily James Smith Putnam (15 Apr 1865 – 07 Sep 1944 | Canandaigua NY – Kingston JAM) author, women’s educator.

14 Apr | Women.Bourne.Works

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Isabella Stewart Gardner (14 Apr 1840 – 17 Jul 1924 | New York NY – Cambridge MA) philanthropist, art patron / collector, museum founder.

Jennie Drinkwater Conklin (14 Apr 1841 – 28 Apr 1907 | Portland ME – New Vernon NJ) author, editor, social welfare activist.

Johanna [Anne] Sullivan Macy (14 Apr 1866 – 20 Oct 1936 | Feeding Hills MA – Forest Hills NY) memoirist, childhood onset blindness, teacher / companion of Helen Keller.

Eda Nemoede Casterton (14 Apr 1877 – 08 Dec 1969 | Brillion WI – Palos Verdes Estates CA) painter, oil / pastel / watercolor miniature portrait artist.

Priscilla Fairfield Bok (14 Apr 1896 – 11 Nov 1975 | Littleton MA – Tucson AZ) author, astronomer, scientific collaborator with husband Bart Bok.

13 Apr | Women.Bourne.Works

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Julia Amanda Sargent Wood (13 Apr 1825 – 09 Mar 1903 | New London NH – St Cloud MN) poet, author, novelist, newspaper editor, pen name Minnie Mary Lee.

Helen Maria Winslow (13 Apr 1851 – 27 Mar 1938 | Westfield VT – Shirley MA) poet, novelist, journalist, Club Woman, co-founded Daughters of Vermont and New England Women’s Press Association.

Lucy Craft Laney (13 Apr 1854 – 23 Oct 1933 | Macon GA – Augusta GA) educator, school principal, founded first black kindergarten, first children’s school, and first nursing school in Augusta GA.

Sarah Hall Ladd (13 Apr 1860 – 30 Mar 1927 | Somerville MA – Carmel CA) pictorial / landscape photographer, Christian Science movement activist.

Anna Easter Brown (13 Apr 1879 – 05 Mar 1957 | West Orange NJ – Rocky Mount NC) educator, history teacher, one of original founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority for female African-American students.

12 Apr | Women.Bourne.Works

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Mollie Evelyn Moore [M. E. M.] Davis (12 Apr 1844 – 01 Jan 1909 | Talladega AL – New Orleans LA) poet, editor, author, salon hostess.

Ella Gaunt Smith (12 Apr 1868 – 02 Apr 1932 | Roanoke AL – Roanoke AL) doll designer / manufacturer.

Imogen Cunningham (12 Apr 1883 – 24 Jun 1976 | Portland OR – San Francisco CA) author, mentor, photographer.

Ethel Moseley Damon (12 Apr 1883 – 01 Apr 1965 | Honolulu HI – Kauai HI) author, teacher, essayist, historian, playwright, pamphleteer, Decorated WW I Red Cross nurse.

Eleanor [Leonia] Touroff Glueck (12 Apr 1898 – 25 Sep 1972 | Brooklyn NY – Cambridge MA) author, criminologist, juvenile delinquency specialist expert.

11 Apr | Women.Bourne.Works

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Margaret Moffette Houston (11 Apr 1819 – 03 Dec 1867 | Marion AL – Independence TX) political family member, First Lady of the Republic of Texas.

Lurana Waterhouse Sheldon Ferris (11 Apr 1862 – 11 Jun 1945 | Hadlyme CT – York ME) poet, lecturer, novelist, suffragist, freethinker, newspaper editor, anti-prohibitionist, pen names Richard Hackstaff, Stanley Norris, Grace Shirley.

Lillie Plummer Bliss (11 Apr 1864 – 12 Mar 1931 | Boston MA – New York NY) art patron / collector, philanthropist.

Mary White Ovington (11 Apr 1865 – 15 Jul 1951 | Brooklyn NY – Newton Highlands MA) suffragist, journalist, social / civil rights activist, NAACP co-founder.

Annie Dodge Wauneka (11 Apr 1910 – 10 Nov 1997 | Navajo Nation AZ – Flagstaff AZ) Navajo, health / education activist, Navajo Nation Council leader.

10 Apr | Women.Bourne.Works

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Louise Chandler Moulton (10 Apr 1835 – 10 Aug 1908 | Pomfret CT – Boston MA) poet, critic, short-story writer, prose fiction author, literary salon hostess.

Lucy Higgs Nichols (10 Apr 1838 – 25 Jan 1915 | Halifax County NC – New Albany IN) escaped slave, aka Miss Lucy, Civil War Union nurse, sole female honorary member of Grand Army of the Republic.

Mary Emilee Holmes (10 Apr 1850 – 13 Feb 1906 | Chester NY – Rockford IL) geologist, educator, first female fellow of the Geological Society of America, co-founded seminary for young black women.

Helene Carola Nancy Sanford Dow (10 Apr 1874 – 08 Aug 1962 | Brussels BE – Derby CT) author, travel writer, aka Machesa di Poggio.

Margaret [Daisy] Sutermeister (10 Apr 1875 – 30 May 1951 | Milton MA – Milton MA) glass-plate photographer, plant nursery manager, a few years after her death 1800+ photographic works discovered stored in her barn.

09 Apr | Women.Bourne.Works

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Mary Rollins Lightner (09 Apr 1818 – 17 Dec 1913 | Lima NY – Minersville UT) Mormon pioneer, member LDS church, rescued looted pages of LDS DOctrine and Convenants, one of plural wives of JoSeph Smith, Brigham Young, and Adam Lightner.

Maria Susanna Cummins (09 Apr 1827 – 01 Oct 1866 | Salem MA – Dorchester MA) short fiction writer, girls’ / young adult serial novelist.

Mary Strong Kinney (09 Apr 1859 – 17 Jun 1938 | Salem OR – Seaside OR) suffragist, politician, Oregon State Senator, sawmill owner / manager.

Margaret Mann (09 Apr 1873 – 22 Aug 1960 | Cedar Rapids IA – Cedar Rapids IA) author, librarian, archivist, professor, pioneer in library cataloging and library science education.

Florence Beatrice Price (09 Apr 1887 – 03 Jun 1953 | Little Rock AR – Chicago IL) solo / choral / orchestral / symphonic composer, first African-American woman recognized as symphonic composer and to have composition played by major orchestra.