14 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Amanda Minnie Douglas (14 Jul 1831 – 18 Jul 1916 | New York NY – Newark NJ) author, storyteller, short fiction writer, children’s serial novelist.

Elizabeth Jane Pennock Tallman (14 Jul 1841 – 07 Mar 1941 | Ossian NY – Parker CO) writer, historian, business owner, early Colorado pioneer settler.

Kate M. Gordon (14 Jul 1861 – 24 Aug 1932 | New Orleans LA – New Orleans LA) suffragist, civic leader, periodical editor, co-founded Equal Rights Association, organizer / president Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference.

Florence Bascom (14 Jul 1862 – 18 Jun 1945 | Williamstown MA – Williamstown MA) geologist, essayist, petrography expert / innovator, first woman hired by United States Geological Survey.

Gertrude Buck (14 Jul 1871 – 08 Jan 1922 | Kalamazoo MI – Poughkeepsie NY) poet, playwright, essayist, professor, rhetorician, textbook author, Christian Scientist.

13 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Esther Allen Howland (13 Jul 1801 – 14 Apr 1860 | Plymouth MA – Worcester MA) cookbook writer, editor / author of recipes, medical remedies, money-saving tips and advice.

Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield (13 Jul 1819 – 31 Mar 1876 | Natchez MS – Philadelphia PA) African-American singer, music teacher, abolitionist, aka The Black Swan, fundraiser for black orphans and the aged.

Mary Emily Foy (13 Jul 1862 – 21 Feb 1962 | Los Angeles CA – Los Angeles CA) librarian, educator, women’s rights activist, first female Head Librarian at Los Angeles Public Library [at age 18].

Mary Emma Woolley (13 Jul 1863 – 05 Sep 1947 | South Norwalk CT – Westport NY) author, educator, suffragist, peace activist, first female student at Brown University, 11th President of Mount Holyoke College.

June Etta Downey (13 Jul 1875 – 11 Oct 1932 | Laramie WY – Trenton NJ) poet, author, columnist, philosopher, psychologist, handwriting / personality researcher.

12 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sara Tappan Lawrence Doolittle Robinson (12 Jul 1827 – 15 Nov 1911 | Belchertown MA – Lawrence KS) author, Kansas historian, First Lady of Kansas, first donor for Santa Fe Trail Marker, founded research table for women in Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole MA.

Lucy Fitch Perkins (12 Jul 1865 – 18 Mar 1937 | Maples IN – Pasadena CA) children’s book author / illustrator, know for her prolific Twins series.

Cora Ethel Eaton Howarth Crane (12 Jul 1868 – 05 Sep 1910 | Boston MA – Jacksonville FL) writer, journalist, bordello / nightclub owner, common-law wife to author Stephen Crane.

Annie Carroll Moore (12 Jul 1871 – 20 Jan 1961 | Limerick ME – New York NY) author, mentor, educator, librarian, book critic, children’s library activist / advocate, aka the Grande Dame of Children’s [Library] Services.

Hettie Gray Baker (12 Jul 1880 – 14 Nov 1957 | Hartford CT – Porter Corner NY) author, librarian, film editor, title writer, screenwriter, movie executive, censor representative for Twentieth Century Fox.

11 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Margaret [Peggy] Shippen Arnold (11 Jul 1760 – 24 Aug 1804 | Philadelphia PA – London UK) Loyalist family member, highest paid British spy during American Revolution, second wife of / co-conspirator with traitor Benedict Arnold.

Jane Aitken (11 Jul 1764 – 29 Aug 1832 | Paisley SCT – Germantown PA) printer, publisher, bookbinder, bookseller, first US woman to print English translation of Christian Bible.

Susan Bogert Warner (11 Jul 1819 – 17 Mar 1885 | New York NY – Highland Falls NY) novelist, hymnist, teacher, religious / children’s fiction author, aka Elizabeth Wetherel.

Phebe W. Sudlow (11 Jul 1831 – 08 Jun 1922 | Poughkeepsie NY – Davenport IA) autodidact, pioneer educator, free public library funder, first female US public school principal / school superintendent, first female president of Iowa School Teachers’ Association, first female professor of University of Iowa.

Katherine Abbott [Kate] Sanborn (11 Jul 1839 – 09 Jul 1917 | Hanover NH – Medway MA) poet, author, teacher, humorist, memoirist, public speaker, calendar publisher, children’s school founder, newspaper / magazine correspondent.

10 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Frances Maria [Fanny] Mulligan Hill (10 Jul 1799 – 05 Aug 1884 | New York NY – Athens GR) pioneer educator, Episcopal missionary, co-founded children’s public school in Athens, later founded private girls’ school Hill Institute [now Hill Memorial: oldest continuously-operating children’s school in Greece].

Emma Hale Smith Bidamon (10 Jul 1804 – 30 Apr 1879 | Harmony Township PA – Nauvoo IL) first wife of Joseph Smith, Latter Day Saints movement leader, first president of Ladies’ Relief Society of Nauvoo, compiled first and later LDS Collections of Sacred Hymns.

Laura Maria Sheldon Wright (10 Jul 1809 – 21 Jul 1886 | Saint Johnsbury VT – Iroquois NY) missionary, Seneca Iroquois rights activist / educator, author of school primer in Seneca and English, founded the Iroquois Temperance League.

Amanda M. Way (10 Jul 1828 – 24 Feb 1914 | Winchester IN – Whittier CA) social activist, Quaker minister, temperance leader, Women’s Tribune founder / publisher, American Civil War nurse, founding member of Indiana Woman’s Rights Association.

Katherine Devereux Blake (10 Jul 1858 – 02 Feb 1950 | New York NY – St Louis MO) peace activist, women’s rights activist, principal / schoolteacher.

09 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Fanny Fern (09 Jul 1811 – 10 Oct 1872 | Portland ME – Manhattan NY) novelist, humorist, born Sara Payson Willis, children’s book author, pioneering female newspaper columnist for The New York Ledger.

Clara Louise Kellogg (09 Jul 1842 – 13 May 1916 | Sumterville SC – New Hartford CT) memoirist, operatic prima donna, opera company founder / director.

Dorothy Thompsom Kopf (09 Jul 1893 – 30 Jan 1961 | Lancaster NY – Lisbon PT) author, journalist, radio broadcaster, aka First Lady of American Journalism, during her life: Second Most Influential Woman in America.

Eunice Allen Lyons Sanborn (09 Jul 1895 – 31 Jan 2011 | Lake Charles LA – Cherokee TX) community activist, co-founded / funded Love’s Lookout Park in Cherokee County TX, supercentenarian [114 years, 195 days], oldest person in United States at time of her death.

Editta Rinaldo Sherman (09 Jul 1912 – 01 Nov 2013 | Philadelphia PA – New York NY) photographer, aka The Duchess of Carnegie Hall.

08 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Maria White Lowell (08 Jul 1821 – 27 Oct 1853 | Watertown MA – Cambridge MA) poet, reformer, translator, abolitionist, temperance activist, women’s rights advocate, letter correspondent, literary family member, married to poet James Russell Lowell.

Martha [Mittie] Stewart Bulloch Roosevelt (08 Jul 1835 – 14 Feb 1884 | Hartford CT – New York NY) political family member, mother of US President Theodore Roosevelt.

Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln (08 Jul 1844 – 02 Dec 1921 | South Attleboro MA – Boston MA) cooking teacher, cookbook author, domestic science pioneer, aka Mrs. D. A. Lincoln.

Ella Reeve Bloor (08 Jul 1862 – 10 Aug 1951 | Staten Island NY – Richlandtown PA) social reformer, political activist, children’s book writer, autobiographical author, aka Mother Bloor.

Wilma Lucille Van Slyck (08 Jul 1898 – 28 Jun 1982 | Cincinnati OH – West Covina CA) American landscape artist.

07 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Jane Elizabeth Dexter Conklin (07 Jul 1831 – 19 Dec 1914 | Utica NY – Utica NY) poet, elocutionist, religious writer, president of the Woman’s Relief Corps of Grand Army of the Republic.

Miriam Coles Harris (07 Jul 1834 – 23 Jan 1925 | Dosoris NY – Pau FR) novelist, children’s story writer, devotional book author.

Lillien Jane Martin (07 Jul 1851 – 26 Mar 1923 | Olean NY – San Francisco CA) author, psychologist, children’s advocate, anti-ageism / -sexism activist.

Nettie Maria Stevens (07 Jul 1861 – 04 May 1912 | Cavendish VT – Baltimore MD) author, biologist, geneticist, researcher, co-discovered XY-sex-determination-chromosome.

Charlotte Anita Whitney (07 Jul 1867 – 04 Feb 1955 | San Francisco CA – San Francisco CA) suffragist, political activist, women’s rights activist, early Communist Party USA organizer.

06 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill (06 Jul 1799 – 01 Jun 1879 | New Haven CT – Princeton NJ) juvenile fiction writer, girls’ / women’s domestic guidebook author.

Sophia Willard Dana Ripley (06 Jul 1803 – 04 Feb 1861 | Cambridge MA – Manhattan NY) Transcendentalist, Roman Catholic convert, co-founded Utopian community Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education in West Roxbury MA.

Elizabeth Sager Helm (06 Jul 1837 – 19 Jul 1925 | Union County OH – Portland OR) survivor, memoirist, Oregon Trail Pioneer, orphaned twice: biological parents on The Trail (1844) and adoptive parents on The Trail in Whitman Massacre (1847).

Maria Howard Weeden (06 Jul 1846 – 12 Apr 1905 | Huntsville AL – Huntsville AL) poet, artist, author.

Julia Hunt Catlin Park DePew Taufflieb (06 Jul 1864 – 17 Dec 1947 | Bennington VT – Cannes FR) socialite, philanthropist, WWI activist, first US woman awarded French Croix de Guerre and Legion d’Honneur.

05 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Hannah Clark Johnston Bailey (05 Jul 1839 – 23 Oct 1923 | Cornwall-on-Hudson NY – Portland ME) writer, lecturer, publisher, peace activist, pamphleteer, National Council of Women treasurer, Maine Women’s Suffrage Association president.

Frances Christine Tiernan (05 Jul 1846 – 24 Mar 1920 | Salisbury NC – Salisbury NC) author, novelist, aka Christian Reid.

Mary Augusta Jordan (05 Jul 1855 – 14 Apr 1941 | Ironton OH – New Haven CT) editor, author, lecturer, librarian, professor.

Wanda Landowska (05 Jul 1879 – 16 Aug 1959 | Warsaw PO – Lakeville CT) author, harpsichordist, musicologist, piano pedagogue, performing artist, first person to record Bach’s Goldberg Variations [1933].

Marjorie Stinson (05 Jul 1895 – 15 Apr 1975 | Fort Payne AL – Washington DC) aviation pioneer, aeronautical draftswoman, ninth female licensed US pilot, aviation training school co-owner / instructor, aka The Flying Schoolgirl.