13 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth Porter Todd Edwards (13 Nov 1813 – 22 Feb 1888 | Lexington KY – Springfield IL) Mary Todd Lincoln’s sister, guardian, helper, aided Mary’s release from insane asylum.

Helen Archibald Clarke (13 Nov 1860 – 08 Feb 1926 | Philadelphia PA – Boston MA) poet, author, editor, literary critic.

Ariadna Vladimirovna Tyrkova-Williams (13 Nov 1869 – 12 Jan 1962 | Saint Petersburg RU – Washington DC) editor, writer, feminist, fundraiser, journalist, memoirist, biographer, liberal politician, women’s rights activist, member of All-Russian Union for Women’s Equality, co-founded Russian Liberation Committee in London UK.

Laura Hughes Lunde (13 Nov 1866 – 16 Jan 1966 | Toronto ON – Chicago IL) pacifist, feminist, socialist, civic reformer, Canadian-American, co-founded Canadian Labor Party and Canadian Women’s Peace Party.

Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd (13 Nov 1876 – 04 Sep 1962 | Athol MA – Pippa Passes KY) educator, journalist, social reformer, founded Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes KY.

12 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Margaret Cochran Corbin (12 Nov 1751 – 16 Jan 1800 | Chambersburg PA – Highland Falls NY) aka Captain Molly, American Revolutionary War heroic vivandière, first-ever female US veteran disability pensioner.

Letitia Christian Tyler (12 Nov 1790 – 10 Sep 1842 | near Richmond VA – Washington DC) Southern belle, staunch Episcopalian, First Lady of Virginia, US Presidential First Lady.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (12 November 1815 – 26 October 1902 | Johnstown NY – New York NY) author, editor, essayist, speaker, abolitionist, social activist / reformer, women’s rights activist / leader. 

Malvina Sarah Black Waring (12 Nov 1842 – 06 Dec 1930 | Newberry SC – Platteville WI) serial novelist.

Hope Emily Allen (12 Nov 1883 – 01 Jul 1960 | Kenwood NY – Oneida NY) scholar of medieval history, discovered manuscript of the Book of Margery Kempe.

11 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth Doughton Reeves (11 Nov 1799 – 30 Dec 1892 | Grayson County VA – Omaha NE) social activist, first female physician in Nebraska.

Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta (11 Nov 1815 – 23 Mar 1891 | Bennington VT – New York NY) poet, critic, writer, teacher, socialite, literary circle figure, Barnard College co-founder, memoirs published posthumously.

Mathilda L. Mahurin (11 Nov 1827 – 16 Apr 1916 | Miami OH – Elkhart IN) teacher, Methodist activist.

Anna Katharine Green Rohlfs (11 Nov 1846 – 11 Apr 1935 | Brooklyn NY – Buffalo NY) poet, novelist, short fiction writer, pioneer detective fiction author, aka Mother of the Detective Novel.

Julia Brainerd Hall (11 Nov 1859 – 04 Sep 1926 | Jamaica – Rochester NY) artist, chemist, musician, still-life painter, co-developer of Hall Process for extracting aluminium from its ore.

10 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Phebe Folger Coleman (10 Nov 1771 – 05 Feb 1857 | Nantucket MA – Nantucket MA) poet, diarist, teacher, watercolorist, commonplace book author / illustrator.

Julia Zitella Cocke (10 Nov 1840 – 03 Dec 1929 | Perry County AL – Gadsden AL) poet, composer, essayist, translator, short fiction writer.

Cornelia Thurza Crosby (10 Nov 1854 – 11 Nov 1946 | Phillips ME – Lewiston ME) aka Fly Rod, columnist, sportswoman, first Registered Maine Guide [male or female].

Mabel Loomis Todd (10 Nov 1856 – 14 Oct 1932 | Cambridge MA – Hog Island ME) editor, writer, literary figure, known for editing / publishing Emily Dickinson’s poetry.

Jennette Barbour Perry Lee (10 Nov 1861 – 16 Oct 1951 | Bristol CT – Northampton MA) author, professor, novelist.

09 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Jane Eliza Newton Woolsey (09 Nov 1801 – 22 Dec 1874 | Alexandria VA – Glen Cove NY) author, genealogist, Civil War volunteer nurse, mother of volunteer daughters, member of Daughters of American Revolution.

Harriot Kezia Hunt (09 Nov 1805 – 02 Jan 1875 | Boston MA – Boston MA) memoirist, women’s right activist, pioneer female physician, first female to apply [and be denied] to Harvard Medical School.

Cornelia Adele Strong Fassett (09 Nov 1831 – 04 Jan 1898 | Owasco NY – Washington DC) painter, portrait artist.

Sally Louisa Tompkins (09 Nov 1833 – 26 Jul 1916 | Poplar Grove VA – Richmond VA) Civil war nurse, humanitarian, philanthropist, commissioned military officer, aka Angel of the Confederacy.

Mary Hallock Foote (09 Nov 1847 – 25 Jun 1938 | Milton NY – Hingham MA) novelist, illustrator, short story writer.

08 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Alice Bunker Stockham (08 Nov 1833 – 03 Dec 1912 | Cardington OH – Alhambra CA) author, fifth female US doctor, philosophy school founder, birth control / gender equality / marital sexual fulfillment activist / advocate.

Maria Kraus-Boelté (08 Nov 1836 – 01 Nov 1918 | Hagenow DEU – Atlantic City NJ) author, essayist, professor, Froebel education advocate, kindergarten pioneer / founder, president of Kindergarten Department of National Education Association.

Lizzie Pitts Merrill Palmer (08 Nov 1838 – 28 Jul 1916 | Portland ME – Great Neck NY) educator, philanthropist, child activist, children’s educational school / child development research institute founder.

Katherine [Kate] Olivia Sessions (08 Nov 1857 – 24 Mar 1940 | San Francisco CA – San Diego CA) botanist, horticulturist, landscape architect, aka Mother of Balboa Park.

Margaret [Meta] Gladys Watkins (08 Nov 1884 – 10 Nov 1969 | Hamilton ON – Glasgow SCT) Canadian photographer, later recluse in Scotland, works discovered in her house after her death.

07 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth Johns Neall Gay (07 Nov 1819 – 09 Dec 1907 | Hingham MA – Hingham MA) poet, writer, Quaker, pacifist, abolitionist, Underground Railroad activist, delegate to first World Anti-Slavery Convention [1840].

Ann Eliza Worcester Robertson (07 Nov 1826 – 19 Nov 1905 | Brainerd TN – Muskogee OK) author, editor, teacher, missionary, translator, Muscogee / English linguistics scholar.

Charlotte [Lotta] Mignon Crabtree (07 Nov 1847 – 25 Sep 1924 | New York NY – Boston MA) actress, comedian, entertainer, philanthropist, theatrical company owner / manager, aka Nation’s Darling and Gold Rush Girl.

Leonora Speyer (07 Nov 1872 – 10 Feb 1956 | Washington DC – New York NY) poet, violinist, aka Lady Speyer, awarded 1927 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.

Eleanor Hague (07 Nov 1875 – 25 Dec 1954 | Los Angeles CA – Los Angeles CA) author, folklorist, Southwest US / Latin American music expert.

06 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Micaela Almonester, Baroness de Pontalba (06 Nov 1795 – 20 Apr 1874 | New Orleans LA – Paris FR) aristocrat, land developer, businesswoman, art / folk / literary figure.

Mary Owens Cook (06 Nov 1831 – 07 Mar 1918 | Cincinnati OH – Des Moines IA) pioneer, civic / social activist, natural and adoptive mother, adoption legislation activist / advocate [note: generic image of mother and child].

Anna Harriet Edwards Leonowens (06 Nov 1831 – 19 Jan 1915 | Ahmednagar IND – Montreal QC) Canadian, teacher, folk figure, suffragist, memoirist, women’s activist, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design co-founder.

Angie Warren Perkins (06 Nov 1858 – 28 Jan 1921 | Danielson CT – Knoxville TN) author, educator, travel writer, club woman, first female dean University of Tennessee.

Helen Bradford Thompson Woolley (06 Nov 1874 – 24 Dec 1947 | Chicago IL – Havertown PA) author, psychologist, gender-difference researcher, pioneer in child developmental studies.

05 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Eliza Chappell Porter (05 Nov 1807 – 01 Jan 1888 | Geneseo NY – Santa Barbara CA) educator, Civil War nurse, social activist / reformer, normal school founder, Chicago’s first public school teacher. 

Georgeanna Muirson Woolsey Bacon (05 Nov 1833 – 27 Jan 1906 | Brooklyn NY – New Haven CT) nurse, author, memoirist, letter correspondent, Civil War Union nurse, co-founded Connecticut Training School for Nurses at New Haven Hospital.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (05 Nov 1850 – 30 Oct 1919 | Johnstown WI – Short Beach CT) poet, author.

Ida Minerva Tarbell (05 Nov 1857 – 06 Jan 1944 | Hatch Hollow PA – Bridgeport CT) author, teacher, journalist, feminist in actions, anti-suffragist views.

Hannah Jane Patterson (05 Nov 1879 – 21 Aug 1937 | Smithton PA – Pittsburgh PA) suffragist, social reformer.

04 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah Hall Benham Boardman (04 Nov 1803 – 01 Sep 1845 | Alstead NH – Saint Helena Island SC) author, hymnist, translator, missionary to Burma.

Grace Greenwood Bedell Billings (04 Nov 1848 – 02 Nov 1936 | Westfield NY – Delphos KS) folk figure, letter correspondent with then-future US President Lincoln suggesting he grow a beard.

Anita Newcomb McGee (04 Nov 1864 – 05 Oct 1940 | Washington DC – Washington DC) author, physician, biographer, medical pioneer, expert professional organizer, author of manual on military nursing, military women’s rights activist / advocate, wrote the Army Reorganization Act of 1901 / founded US Army Nurse Corps, first female Acting Assistant US Army Surgeon General.

Jean McKishnie Blewett (04 Nov 1862 – 19 Aug 1934 | Scotia ON – Chatham ON) poet, author, journalist, pen name Katherine Kent.

Gena Brascombe Tinney (04 Nov 1881 – 26 Jul 1977 | Picton ON – New York NY) pianist, composer, music educator, choir conductor, founded Branscombe Chorale.