24 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Margaret A. E. Parkinson McLure (24 Mar 1811 – 31 Jan 1902 | Parkersburg WV – St Louis MO) aka Mother McLure, American Civil War Confederate sympathizer, founded Missouri Confederate Home, co-founded Daughters of the Confederacy.

Frances Jane [Fanny] Crosby van Alstyne (24 Mar 1820 – 12 Feb 1915 | Brewster NY – Bridgeport CT) poet, lyricist, composer, blind activist, mission worker, autobiographical author.

Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (24 Mar 1826 – 18 Mar 1898 | Cicero NY – Chicago IL) artist, editor, author, suffragist, Theosophist, freethinker, Native American activist.

Candace Thurber Wheeler (24 Mar 1827 – 05 Aug 1923 | Delhi NY – New York NY) textile / interior designer, women’s arts supporter, aka Mother of Interior Design.

Bertha Hedges Spafford Vester (24 Mar 1878 – 27 Jun 1968 | Chicago IL – Jerusalem ISR) social service activist for girls / women, leader / member of The American Colony in Jerusalem [founded by her parents].

23 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah Ann Lillie Bumstead Hardinge (23 Mar 1824 – 13 Oct 1913 | Boston MA – East Orange NJ) artist, author, teacher, inventor, watercolorist, self-taught painter, one of first females to depict Texas, patented photo-finishing process called Pearletta Pictures.

Sarah Elizabeth Doyle (23 Mar 1830 – 21 Dec 1922 | Providence RI – Providence RI) educator, feminist, women’s education activist, co-founded Rhode Island School of Design, funded Brown University’s Pembroke Hall [became Pembroke College].

Josephine Lazarus (23 Mar 1846 – 03 Feb 1910 | New York NY – Manhattan NY) book critic, essayist, Zionist, lecturer, biographer, transcendentalist, Emma Lazarus’ sister and co-publisher.

Fannie Merritt Farmer (23 Mar 1857 – 15 Jan 1915 | Medford MA – Boston MA) school principal, culinary expert, cookbook author.

Caroline Dale Parke Snedeker (23 Mar 1871 – 22 Jan 1956 | New Harmony IN – Bay St Louis MS) young-adult novelist, pen name Caroline Dale Owen.

22 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Maria Claypoole Peale (22 Mar 1787 – 27 Mar 1866 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) still-life / miniature portrait painter.

Calista Robinson Jones (22 Mar 1839 – 28 Jan 1913 | Chelsea VT – Bradford VT) educator, civic / social activist, president of Woman’s Relief Corps, founding chair / fundraiser for Woods Public Library Book Committee in Bradford.

Laura Jean Libbey (22 Mar 1862 – 25 Oct 1924 | Brooklyn NY – Brooklyn NY) prolific ‘dime’ romance novelist.

Elsie Hart Wilcox (22 Mar 1879 – 30 Jun 1954 | Hanalei HI – Kauai HI) community activist, Grove Farm Homestead preservationist, first woman to serve in Territory of Hawaii Senate.

Jessie Ethel Sampter (22 Mar 1883 – 25 Nov 1938 | New York NY – Givat Brenner IS) poet, educator, lesbian, Zionist pioneer, contracted polio at age 12.

21 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Dixon Kies (21 Mar 1752 – 1837 | Killingly CT – Brooklyn NY) milliner, inventor, first female US patent holder [1809], invented new method of weaving straw with silk and thread.

Lucy Taft Fisher (21 Mar 1805 – 20 Jan 1854 | Wendell MA – Oregon City OR) pioneer, American Baptist Home missionary.

Antonia Maury (21 Mar 1866 – 08 Jan 1952 | Cold Spring NY – Dobbs Ferry NY) author, astronomer, published early catalog of stellar spectra.

Amy Eliza Tanner (21 Mar 1870 – 01 Feb 1956 | Owatonna MN – Worcester MA) author, psychologist, doctor of philosophy, spiritual medium researcher, theater owner / manager, girls / women’s club activist.

Anna Strunsky Walling (21 Mar 1877 – 25 Feb 1964 | Babinots RU – San Francisco CA) author, Socialist, novelist, essayist, social / political activist.

20 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sophia Fowler Gallaudet (20 Mar 1798 – 13 May 1877 | near Guildford CT – Washington DC) born deaf, lobbyist for deaf education, founding matron of National Deaf-Mute College [later Gallaudet College].

Mary Elizabeth Moore Hewitt (20 Mar 1807 – 17 Sep 1884 | Malden MA – Chicago IL) poet, editor.

Cornelia Phillips Spencer (20 Mar 1825 – 11 Mar 1908 | Harlem NY – Cambridge MA) poet, hymnist, journalist, social historian, first female to receive honorary degree from University of North Carolina.

Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell (20 Mar 1845 – 10 Mar 1888 | Urumiah IR – Lausanne CH) American author, historian, ancient art expert.

Maria Longworth Nichols Storer (20 Mar 1849 – 30 Apr 1932 | Cincinnati OH – Paris FR) potter, patron of arts, Rookwood Pottery Company founder.

19 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Cornelia Grinnell Willis (19 Mar 1825 – 24 Mar 1904 | New Bedford MA – Washington DC) abolitionist, women’s rights advocate, columnist for New York Ledger, protected and purchased freedom for Harriet Jacobs, founding member of first US Woman’s Club, founded school for young women at the Willis Idlewild Estate.

Alice French (19 Mar 1850 – 09 Jan 1934 | Andover MA – Davenport IA) novelist, aka Octave Thanet.

Ellen Gates Starr (19 Mar 1859 – 10 Feb 1940 | Laona IL – Suffern NY) author, teacher, lecturer, bookbinder, child labor activist, anti-industrialist, co-founder of Hull-House, social / political reformer, Arts and Crafts Movement practitioner.

Senda Berenson Abbott (19 Mar 1868 – 16 Feb 1954 | Vilnius LT – Santa Barbara CA ) author, wrote first guide / rule book for women’s basketball, Instructor of Physical Culture at Smith College, aka The Mother of Women’s Basketball.

Edith Nourse Rogers (19 Mar 1881 – 10 Sep 1960 | Saco ME – Boston MA) aviator, politician, social welfare activist, created US GI Bill, veterans advocate, Women’s Army Corps founder, longest tenured US State Representative.

18 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Ann Harris Gay (18 Mar 1828 – 06 Nov 1918 | Jones County GA – Decatur GA) poet, author, diarist, memoirist, American Confederate heroine.

Marilla Marks Young Ricker (18 Mar 1840 – 12 Nov 1920 | New Durham NH – Dover NH) author, attorney, suffragist, free-thinker, humanitarian, women’s rights activist.

Sally Berkeley Nelson Robins (18 Mar 1855 – 04 Feb 1925 | Gloucester County VA – Richmond VA) author, suffragist, genealogist, essayist, historian.

Jennie Harris Oliver (18 Mar 1864 – 03 Jun 1942 | Lowell MI – Oklahoma City OK) poet, Poet Laureate of Oklahoma.

Alice Cushing Donaldson Riley (18 Mar 1867 – 09 Aug 1955 | Morrison IL – Pasadena CA) children’s songs /operas / poetry / lullabies author, Drama League of America innovator.

17 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Queen Kaʻahumanu (17 Mar 1768 – 05 Jun 1832 | Maui HI – Mānoa Valley HI) aka The Feathered Mantle, Kingdom of Hawai’i regent / queen consort.

Elizabeth [Eliza] Kirby Withington (17 Mar 1825 – 04 Mar 1877 | New York NY – Ione CA) portrait and landscape photographer.

Emily Sartain (17 Mar 1841 – 17 Jun 1927 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) engraver, portrait painter, mezzo-tint artist.

Cornelia Maria Clapp (17 Mar 1849 – 31 Dec 1934 | Montague MA – Mount Dora FL) author, academic, zoologist, Marine biologist, earned both first and second American PhD degrees awarded to a woman.

E. Alice Munn Austen (17 Mar 1866 – 09 Jun 1952 | Staten Island NY – Staten Island NY) photographer, landscape artist, master tennis player, first Staten Island woman to own a car.

16 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Lucy Virginia French (16 Mar 1825 – 31 Mar 1881 | Accomack County VA – McMinnville TN) poet, author, songwriter, pen name L’Inconnue.

Anna B. Alcott Pratt (16 Mar 1831 – 13 Jul 1893 | Germantown PA – Concord MA) author, folk / literary family figure.

Clara Weaver Parrish (16 Mar 1861 – 11 Nov 1925 | Selma AL – New York NY) painter, illustrator, printmaker, stained glass window designer.

Sara Corning (16 Mar 1872 – 05 May 1969 | Chegoggin NS – Yarmouth NS) nurse, humanitarian, WWI Red Cross nurse, saved wartime orphans, founded orphanage on Island of Syros, graduate of Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Hanover, New Hamsphire.

Loja Saarinen (16 Mar 1879 – 21 Apr 1968 | Helsinki FI – Bloomfield Hills MI) author, sculptor, textile artist, Finnish-American, opened Studio Loja Saarinen, founded weaving department at Cranbrook Academy of Art, born Minna Carolina Mathilde Louise Gesellius.

15 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Harriet [Hattie] E. Wilson (15 Mar 1825 – 28 Jun 1900 | Milford NH – Quincy MA) Spiritualist, public speaker, housekeeper, first recognized female African-American novelist.

Alice Cunningham Fletcher (15 Mar 1838 – 06 Apr 1923 | Havana CU – Washington DC) author, sketch artist, ethnologist, social scientist, anthropologist.

Edith Maud Eaton (15 Mar 1865 – 07 Apr 1914 | Macclesfield UK – Montreal QC) journalist, aka Sui Sin Far, short fiction writer, British-Chinese-Canadian.

Mary Chase Perry Stratton (15 Mar 1867 – 15 Apr 1961 | Hancock MI – Detroit MI) ceramic artist, Pewabic Pottery co-founder, Arts and Crafts Movement member.

Henrietta [Hattie] Kanengeiser Carnegie (15 Mar 1886 – 22 Feb 1956 | Vienna AT – New York NY) milliner, immigrant, entrepreneur, fashion designer / doyenne.