10 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Pauline Cushman Fryer (10 jun 1833 – 02 dec 1897 | New Orleans LA – San Francisco CA) actress, Civil War Union spy, born Harriet Wood.

Rebecca Latimer Felton (10 Jun 1835 – 24 Jan 1930 | Decatur GA – Atlanta GA) writer, lecturer, political activist, first female US Senator.

Caroline Hazard (10 Jun 1856 – 19 Mar 1945 | Peace Dale RI – Santa Barbara CA) author, educator, museum patron, philanthropist, fifth president of Wellesley College.

Violet Oakley (10 Jun 1874 – 25 Feb 1961 | Bergen Heights NJ – Philadelphia PA) painter, muralist, printmaker, stained glass artist, Christian Scientist, first American woman to receive a public mural commission.

Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg (10 Jun 1881 – 11 Mar 1974 | Vienna AT – New York NY) author, parent / child expert.

09 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Theodora Cormontan (09 Jun 1840 – 26 Oct 1922 | Beitstad NO – Decorah IA) pianist, organist, hymnist, composer, teacher, music publisher, music-lending librarian.

Helen Marot (09 Jun 1865 – 03 Jun 1940 | Philadelphia PA – New York NY) writer, editor, librarian, social reformer, labor organizer.

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (09 Jun 1877 – 18 Mar 1968 | Philadelphia PA – Framingham MA) poet, painter, sculptor, African-American, member of Black Renaissance.

Marcia Davenport (09 Jun 1903 – 16 Jan 1996 | New York NY – Monterey CA) author, music critic, memoirist, biographer.

Sarah Ratner (09 Jun 1903 – 28 Jul 1999 | New York NY – New York NY) author, essayist, biochemist, researcher.

08 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Mary Lucinda Bonney Rambaut (08 Jun 1816 – 24 Jul 1900 | Hamilton NY – Hamilton NY) educator, women’s school founder, Native American rights advocate.

Sarah Ellen Harding Baker (08 Jun 1847 – 30 Mar 1886 | Cincinnati OH – Johnson County IA) teacher, astronomer, creative quilter, known for her Solar System Quilt.

Ida Saxton McKinley (08 Jun 1847 – 26 May 1907 | Canton OH – Canton OH) bank teller, ‘secret’ epileptic, US Presidential First Lady.

Marion [Mamie] Graves Anthon Fish (08 Jun 1853 – 25 May 1915 | Staten Island NY – Glenclyffe NY) socialite, high society leader, self-styled fun-maker.

Adah Louise Sutton Saalfield (08 Jun 1860 – 18 Nov 1935 | Brooklyn NY – Akron OH) poet, author, children’s writer, women’s rights activist, animal welfare advocate, pen names: Ada Sutton, Adah Louise Sutton, Louise A. Field.

07 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Susan Elizabeth Blow (07 Jun 1843 – 27 Mar 1916 | St Louis MO – New York NY) author, educator, kindergarten founder, children’s education activist, aka The Mother of American Kindergarten.

Alice Luann Moore Hubbard (07 Jun 1861 – 07 May 1915 | Wales NY – off the coast of Ireland) writer, feminist, original Roycrofter, lost at sea onboard torpedoed ocean liner Lusitania.

Alice Van Vechten Brown (07 Jun 1862 – 16 Oct 1949 | Hanover NH – Middletown NJ) author, art educator, art historian, created first US courses in museum training [1911] and modern art [1927] .

Alice Nielsen (07 Jun 1872 – 08 Mar 1943 | Nashville TN – Far Rockaway NY) operatic lyric soprano.

Carmela Anna Ponselle (07 Jun 1887 – 13 Jun 1977 | Schenectady NY – New York NY) operatic mezzo-soprano.

06 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Sarah Parker Remond (06 Jun 1826 – 13 Dec 1894 | Salem MA – Florence IT) author, lecturer, physician, abolitionist, African-American.

Annie Adams Fields (06 Jun 1834 – 05 Jan 1915 | Boston MA – Cambridge MA) author, diarist, memoirist, biographer, social reformer, philanthropist.

Elida Barker Rumsey Fowle (06 Jun 1842 – 17 Jun 1919 | New York NY – Dorchester MA) field nurse, songstress, library founder, social activist.

Beulah Poynter Leffler (06 Jun 1883 – 13 Aug 1960 | Eagleville MO – Manhasset NY) actor, author, playwright, short fiction writer, mystery / romance novelist.

A’Lelia Walker (06 Jun 1885 – 17 Aug 1931 | Vicksburg MS – Long Branch NJ) businesswoman, cultural salon hostess, Harlem Renaissance patron of arts.

05 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Kate Cumming (05 Jun 1828 – 05 Jun 1909 | Scotland UK – Birmingham AL) diarist, memoirist, Confederate nurse.

Miriam Florence Folline Squier Leslie (05 Jun 1836 – 18 Sep 1914 | New Orleans LA – New York NY) author, memoirist, publisher.

Sarah Elizabeth Forbush Downs (05 Jun 1843 – 1926 | Wrentham MA – Cambridge MA) dime novelist, magazine writer, aka Mrs Georgie Sheldon, Mrs George Sheldon Downs.

Susan Stuart Frackelton (05 Jun 1848 – 14 Apr 1932 | Milwaukee WI – Kenilworth IL) artist, author, ceramics painter, Arts and Crafts movement leader.

Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman (05 Jun 1853 – 19 Mar 1915 | Cedarville IL – Chicago IL) banker, educator, social activist, craftswoman, philanthropist, Woman’s Club leader, physician’s assistant, sister of social activist Jane Addams, mother of Marcet Haldeman-Julius.

04 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Mary Hanchett Hunt (04 Jun 1830 – 24 Apr 1906 | South Canaan CT – Dorchester MA) Women’s Christian Temperance Union [WCTU] leader / author / lecturer.

Delity Powell Kelly (04 Jun 1851 – 31 Oct 1939 | Apalachicola FL – Pensacola FL) Confederate nurse, Civil War prisoner, first female military pensioner Florida State.

Catharine Waugh McCulloch (04 Jun 1862 – 20 Apr 1945 | Ransomville NY – Evanston IL) author, lawyer, suffragist, first woman elected to US judicial office.

Nora Waln (04 Jun 1895 – 27 Sep 1964 | Grampian Hills PA – Malaga ES) author, novelist, memoirist, magazine writer, war correspondent.

Julia Caroline Butler Hansen (04 Jun 1907 – 03 May 1988 | Portland OR – Cathlamet WA) State representative, children’s book author, second woman / first Democratic woman elected to Congress from Washington State.

03 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Martha Jane Knowlton Coray (03 jun 1821 – 14 dec 1881 | Covington KY – Provo UT) educator, historian, preservationist, sole female on first Board of Trustees for Brigham Young Academy.

Charcila Cecilia Moore Morse (03 Jun 1838 – 13 Jun 1926 | Anahuac TX – Tampa FL) citrus farmer, pioneer educator, founded St. Anthony Catholic School [now the oldest parochial school in Florida].

Hannah Kent Schoff (03 Jun 1853 – 10 Dec 1940 | Upper Darby PA – Philadelphia PA) author, child welfare activist / worker.

Elinore Pruitt Rupert Stewart (03 Jun 1876 – 08 Oct 1933 | Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory – Rock Springs WY) author, homesteader, letter correspondent, aka the Woman Homesteader.

Edna Noble White (03 Jun 1879 – 04 May 1954 | Fairmount IL – Detroit MI) home economics educator, child development researcher, Merrill Palmer Institute first director.

02 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Helen Herron [Nellie] Taft (02 Jun 1861 – 22 May 1943 | Cincinnati OH – Washington DC) memoirist, US Presidential First Lady, patroness of music, planted / arranged first plantings of Japanese cherry trees gifted to Washington DC.

Marjorie Hill Allee (02 Jun 1890 – 30 Apr 1945 | Carthage IN – Indiana US) fiction / nonfiction writer, young adult novelist, children’s book author.

Dorothy West (02 Jun 1907 – 16 Aug 1998 | Boston MA – Boston MA) novelist, short story writer, African-American, member of Harlem Renaissance.

Alice Jackson Stuart (02 Jun 1913 – 13 Jun 2001 | Richmond VA – Richmond VA) teacher, professor, educational advocate, first female African-American to apply [and be denied] for graduate school at University of Virginia, earned Master of Arts at Columbia University.

Betty Wishnick-Freeman (02 Jun 1921 – 03 Jan 2009 | Chicago IL – Los Angeles CA) art collector, photographer, philanthropist, biographical author, documentary filmmaker.

01 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Abby Hadassah Smith (01 Jun 1797 – 23 Jul 1879 | Glastonbury CT – Glastonbury CT) suffragist, tax resister, women’s property activist.

Caroline Lee Hentz (01 Jun 1800 – 11 Feb 1856 | Lancaster MA – Marianna FL) author, novelist, playwright, literary figure, anti-abolitionist, short story writer.

Harriet Ruggles Gold Boudinot (01 Jun 1805 – 15 Aug 1836 | Cornwall CT – New Echota GA) folk figure, letter correspondent, Cherokee marriage partner / pioneer.

Emily Donelson (01 Jun 1807 – 19 Dec 1836 | Donelson TN – Nashville TN) shortest-lived US First Lady, White House Hostess.

Anna Eliot Ticknor (01 Jun 1823 – 05 Oct 1896 | Boston MA – Boston MA) author, educator, public library advocate, home education activist, founded Society to Encourage Studies at Home / first correspondence school in the US.