09 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Sarah Pierpont Edwards (09 Jan 1710 – 02 Oct 1758 | New Haven CT – Philadelphia PA) author, mystic, pioneer woman, minister’s wife.

Rebecca Bryan Boone (09 Jan 1739 – 18 Mar 1813 | Winchester VA – Defiance MO) Quaker pioneer, folk figure, tavern keeper, community midwife, Kentucky State politician’s wife.

Catharine Parr Strickland Traill (09 Jan 1802 – 29 Aug 1899 | Rotherhithe UK – Lakefield ON) author, settler, naturalist, children’s writer, pioneer Canadian natural writer.

Anna Bishop Riviere (09 Jan 1810 – 19 Mar 1884 | London UK – New York NY) English-American operatic bel canto soprano.

Jennie Jerome Churchill (09 Jan 1854 – 29 Jun 1921 | Brooklyn NY – London UK) American-English, magazine editor, mother of Winston Churchill, aka Lady Randolph Churchill.

08 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Ida Whipple Benham (08 Jan 1849 – 21 May 1903 | Quakertown CT – Ledyard CT) poet, hymnist, educator, peace activist, American Peace Society director, Universal Peace Union executive committee member.

Fanny Bullock Workman (08 Jan 1859 – 22 Jan 1925 | Worcester MA – Cannes FR) author, explorer, geographer, cartographer.

Ellen Churchill Semple (08 Jan 1863 – 08 May 1932 | Louisville KY – West Palm Beach FL) author, geographer, Presidential advisor, president American Geographers, first female president of any US academic organization.

Mary Kenney O’Sullivan (08 Jan 1864 – 18 Jan 1943 | Hannibal MO – West Medford MA) bookbinder, dressmaker, settlement house activist, labor movement organizer, founded Women’s Trade Union League, factory Inspector for Massachusetts Board of Labor and Industries.

Ellen Hattie Clapsaddle (08 Jan 1865 – 07 Jan 1934 | South Columbia NY – New York NY) illustrator, commercial artist, prolific souvenir / postcard / greeting card artist.

07 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Ann Mayes Rutledge (07 Jan 1813 – 25 Aug 1835 | Henderson KY – New Salem IL) US folk figure, aka [US President Abraham] Lincoln’s First Love.

Julia Thompson von Stosch Schayer (07 Jan 1842 – 29 Mar 1928 | Deering ME – Bronxville NY) short fiction author.

Louise Imogen Guiney (07 Jan 1861 – 02 Nov 1920 | Roxbury MA – Chipping Campden UK) poet, editor, essayist.

Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer (07 Jan 1873 – 24 Jun 1943 | Allentown PA – Nashville TN) painter, illustrator, printmaker, white-line woodcut creator / innovator.

Florence Winger Bagley (07 Jan 1874 – 1952 | Clay Lick PA – US) author, psychologist, Fechner’s color aesthetics specialist, independent psychology researcher.

06 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Rebecca Webb Pennock Lukens (06 Jan 1794 – 10 Dec 1854 | Marlboro Township PA – Coatesville PA) Quaker, mill owner / manager, first US female industrial CEO, autobiographical author.

Charlotte Endymion Porter (06 Jan 1857 – 16 Jan 1942 | Towanda PA – Melrose MA) poet, editor, writer, translator, literary critic.

Elisabeth Mills Reid (06 Jan 1858 – 30 Apr 1931 | New York NY – Nice FR) social activist, philanthropist, women’s arts / academics advocate.

Frances Saville (06 Jan 1862 – 08 Nov 1935 | San Francisco CA – Belmont CA) operatic lyric soprano.

Caroline [Caro] Dana Blymyer Dawes (06 Jan 1866 – 03 Oct 1957 | Cincinnati OH – Evanston IL) US Second Lady, social / charity activist, natural and adoptive mother.

05 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Olympia Brown (05 Jan 1835 – 23 Oct 1926 | Prairie Ronde Township MI – Baltimore MD) author, suffragist, first female theological school graduate in US, first ordained American female minister.

Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones (05 Jan 1868 – 24 Jun 1933 | Portsmouth VA – Providence RI) African-American grand opera / light opera / popular music soprano.

Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate (05 Jan 1871 – 28 Dec 1930 | Vanleer TN – Philadelphia PA) African-American, author, preacher, Bishop Mother, religious leader, Church of the Living God, Pillar and Ground of Truth founder.

Frances Nacke Noel (05 Jan 1873 – 24 Apr 1963 | Saxony DEU – Los Angeles CA) suffragist, women’s labor activist, women’s rights advocate, Socialist Labor Party member, cross-class alliance advocate, aka The Most Eloquent Female Orator of Southern California.

Clara Gardner Mairs (05 Jan 1878 – 24 May 1963 | Hastings MN – Ramsey MN) artist, etcher, printmaker.

04 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Helen Kendrick Johnson (04 Jan 1844 – 03 Jan 1917 | Hamilton NY – Rochester NY) poet, activist, travel writer, children’s author.

Esther B. Singleton (04 Jan 1865 – 02 Jul 1930 | Baltimore MD – Stonington CT) prolific author, journalist, Shakespeare researcher.

Frances Hammell Gearhart (04 Jan 1869 – 04 Apr 1959 | Sagetown IL – Pasadena CA) teacher, landscape artist, watercolorist, lino / woodcut printmaker, pioneer American fine art color printmaker.

Selena Sloan Butler (04 Jan 1872 – 09 Oct 1964 | Thomasville GA – Los Angeles CA) African-American, organized first black women’s Red Cross chapter, founder / first president National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers Association [NCCPT].

Allie Mae Carpenter (04 Jan 1887 – 02 Jul 1978 | Prairie Home MO – Denver CO) artist, etcher, oil painter, pastellist, printmaker, tapestry artist, watercolorist, china painter, art educator, aka A.M. Carpenter, interior designer / decorator.

03 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Isabella Maria Hazzard Floyd (03 Jan 1773 – 18 Aug 1859 | Beaufort SC – Saint Marys GA) settler, member Daughters of American Revolution.

Lucretia Coffin Mott (03 Jan 1793 – 11 Nov 1880 | Nantucket MA – Cheltenham PA) Quaker author, speaker, educator, suffragist, abolitionist, women’s rights activist, autobiographical author.

Anne Ayres (03 Jan 1816 – 09 Feb 1896 | London UK – Long Island NY) British-American, religious author / biographer, social service minister, nursing director / administrator of St Luke’s Hospital, First Sister / Founder of US Episcopal religious order named Sisterhood of the Holy Communion.

Sophia B. Packard (03 Jan 1824 – 21 Jun 1891 | New Salem MA – Atlanta GA) educator, African-American women’s college co-founder [Spelman Seminary which became Spelman College].

Eliza Margaret Perry (03 Jan 1828 – 03 Jan 1862 | Pitosi MI – Austin TX) diarist, Texas pioneer / settler’s family member.

02 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Queen Emma Kalanikaumakaʻamano Kaleleonālani Naʻea Rooke of Hawaiʻi (02 Jan 1836 – 25 Apr 1885 | Honolulu or Kawaihae, Sandwich Islands – Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) Queen monarch, social activist, hospital founder, advocated Hawaii’s independence.

Alice Mary Robertson (02 Jan 1854 – 01 Jul 1931 | Tullahassee Mission, Creek Nation – Muskogee OK) politician, educator, social worker, anti-feminist, Native American rights advocate.

Martha [Minnie] Carey Thomas (02 Jan 1857 – 02 Dec 1935 | Baltimore MD – Philadelphia PA) linguist, suffragist, Bryn Mawr founder / president, first female Johns Hopkins’ student / honorary graduate.

Anne Sewell Young (02 Jan 1877 – 15 Aug 1961 | Bloomington WI – Claremont CA) author, astronomer, astronomy professor, variable star observer.

Mary Hamilton Swindler (02 Jan 1884 – 16 Jan 1967 | Bloomington IN – Haverford PA) author, archaeologist, art historian, classical art scholar, first female Editor-in-Chief American Journal of Archaeology.

01 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Jane Frazier [or Fraser] (01 Jan 1735 – 14 Apr 1815 | Winchester VA – Schellsburg PA) survivor, memoirist, captured / escaped Native Americans.

Elizabeth Griscom Claypoole Ross (01 Jan 1752 – 30 Jan 1836 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) American Revolutionary War folk figure, seamstress for First Flag of the United States, best known as Betsy Ross.

Harriet E. Bishop (01 Jan 1817 – 08 Aug 1883 | Panton VT – St Paul MN) writer, educator, suffragist, temperance activist.

Amelia Stewart Knight (01 Jan 1817 – 25 Jan 1898 | Boston MA – Vancouver WA) diarist, memoirist, Northwest Oregon Trail pioneer / settler.

Lucy Lambert Hale (01 Jan 1841 – 15 Oct 1915 | Dover NH – Warren NH) society belle, engaged to John Wilkes Booth, later political wife / hostess to Senator Chandler.

31 Dec | Women.Words.Work

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Lucretia Crocker (31 Dec 1829 – 09 Oct 1886 | Barnstable MA – Boston MA) author, educator, first female superintendent Boston Public Schools, educational activist / advocate / innovator.

Queen Kapi’olani Napelakapuokakaʻe (31 Dec 1834 – 24 Jun 1899 | Hilo HI – Waikiki HI) Queen Consort of the Kingdom of Hawai’i, medical / educational philanthropist, founded Kapi’olani Maternity Home and Kapi’olani Home for Girls.

Mary Jane Safford-Blake (31 Dec 1834 – 08 Dec 1891 | Hyde Park VT – Tarpon Springs FL) author, teacher, novelist, translator, Civil War Union field nurse. 

Elizabeth Arden (31 Dec 1878 – 18 Oct 1966 | Woodbridge ON – New York NY) Canadian-American author, social icon, beauty products innovator, cosmetics businesswoman, born Florence Nightingale Graham.