04 Mar | Women’s Words & Works

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Frances [Ma-con-a-quah] Slocum (04 Mar 1773 – 09 Mar 1847 | Warwick RI – Peru IN) Quaker, folk figure, Delaware Indian captive / survivor / adopted member.

Rebecca Gratz (04 Mar 1781 – 27 Aug 1869 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) author, philanthropist, charitable worker, religious educator, letter correspondent.

Myrtilla Miner (04 Mar 1815 – 17 Dec 1864 | New York NY – Washington DC) educator, abolitionist, social activist, founder / director Normal School for Colored Girls [later DC Teachers College].

Anna Elizabeth Broomall (04 Mar 1847 – 04 Apr 1931 | Upper Chichester Township PA – Chester PA) Quaker, pioneering obstetrics physician / professor, curator / librarian Delaware County [PA] Historical Society.

Effie Carlton Crockett (04 Mar 1856 – 07 Jan 1940 | Rockland ME – Boston MA) actress, composer, singer-songwriter, composed “Rock-A-Bye Baby”.

03 Mar | Women’s Words & Works

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Una Hawthorne (03 Mar 1844 – 10 Sep 1877 | Concord MA – London UK) artistic / literary family member, daughter of artist Sophia Hawthorne / author Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Isabel Weld Perkins Anderson (03 Mar 1876 – 03 Nov 1948 | Boston MA – Washington DC) poet, editor, heiress, travel writer, philanthropist, children’s author, WWI ARC nurse, aka Mrs Larz Anderson.

Margaret Chase Going Woodhouse (03 Mar 1890 – 12 Dec 1984 | Victoria BC – Sprague CT) educator, politician, economics professor, aka Chase Woodhouse, founder / director Institute of Women’s Professional Relations.

Grace Lumpkin (03 Mar 1891 – 03 Mar 1980 | Milledgeville GA – Columbia SC) feminist, public speaker, proletarian novelist, US Communist, later in life anti-Communist Christian convert.

Beatrice Wood (03 Mar 1893 – 12 Mar 1998 | San Francisco CA – Ojai CA) artist, potter, aka The Mama of Dada.

02 Mar | Women’s Words & Works

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Sarah Eleanor Bayliss Royce (02 Mar 1819 – 23 Nov 1891 | Stratford-upon-Avon UK – Santa Rosa CA) diarist, author, pioneer, memoirist.

Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (02 Mar 1831 – 26 Jun 1885 | Erie PA – Ho-Ho-Kus NJ) mystery writer, aka Seeley Regester.

Annie Eliot Trumbull (02 Mar 1857 – 22 Dec 1949 | Hartford CT – Hartford CT) poet, author, playwright.

Susanna Madora [Dora] Kinsey Salter (02 Mar 1860 – 17 Mar 1961 | Lamira OH – Norman OK) politician, prohibitionist, community activist, religious / political activist, member of Women’s Christian Temperance Union [WCTU], first female Mayor of Argonia KS, one of first women elected to any US political office.

Mabel Ward Cameron (02 Mar 1863 – 22 Feb 1923 | Boston MA – Hartford CT) author, biographer.

01 Mar | Women’s Words & Works

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Mary Palmer Tyler (01 Mar 1775 – 07 Jul 1866 | Watertown MA – Brattleboro VT) author, farmer, mother of 11 children, published one of earliest childcare manuals [1811] by an American woman.

Lillian M. N. Ames Stevens (01 Mar 1844 – 06 Apr 1914 | Dover-Foxcroft ME – Portland ME) philanthropist, humanitarian, community activist, women’s right advocate, founder / president Maine WCTU and president of US National WCTU [Women’s Christian Temperance Union].

Mary Ella Waller (01 Mar 1855 – 14 Jun 1938 | Boston MA – Wellesley MA) poet, novelist, essayist, translator, short story writer.

Virginia E. Walker Broughton (01 Mar 1856 – 21 Sep 1934 | Nashville TN – Memphis TN) African-American author, teacher, essayist, preacher, religious scholar, Baptist missionary.

Katharine Elizabeth Dopp (01 Mar 1863 – 14 May 1944 | Belmont WI – Chicago IL) teacher, educational activist, one of first to advocate for industry / business involvement in elementary education, children / young adult textbooks author in science / economics / anthropology.

1827 | Beers

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Ethelinda [Ethel Lynn] Eliot Beers (13 Jan 1827 – 11 Oct 1879 | Goshen NY – Orange NJ) US Civil War poet.

All quiet along the Potomac to-night. Ice-cold, like a waxen thing, the quiet sleeper lies.

It was even so. When a printed word had the quiet pulse of a reader stirred, she had found

her voice. They walk beside us everywhere – in quiet glen, in crowded street, wherever

hearts are borne about by busy human feet. Pale, quiet faces pass us by. Her voice was

wondrously quiet the summer-day long; fair, quiet, and pale, she was pining. Rest on your

oar and quiet lie: we’re floating now till the Pilot calls us by and by. Quiet lives just close

beside us shine upon the ended days. No index tells the worth of baby’s quiet breath. Had

we hither come for quiet? The seals are broken slowly, then closed with sober, quiet care.

Far down in the quiet valley I’ll tarry & people its quiet with forms loved before. The bird

in the maple was quiet — silent as the quiet shade.

Beers, Ethel Lynn. All Quiet Along the Potomac and Other Poems. Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1879. https://archive.org/details/cu31924021985084

1825 ~ Robinson

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Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson (08 Feb 1825 – 22 Dec 1911 | Boston MA – Malden MA) poet, author, mill girl, bobbin doffer, social activist, suffragist leader.

The sonnet sonnetized: The sonnet is mechanical in part, and part ideal. The cube root

of song, conceive your thought, then build the verse along in true Petrarchan style. With

rhythmic art to all the fourteen lines a grace impart. Ten-syllable the verse, the rhymes

be strong; within the octave only two belong, and in the sestet three. And here the heart

of all the sonnet lies. Con-centred fast, your thought, developed through each separate line,

here breaks the bounds and struggles to be free, through hampering bars of rhyme; and

when the last is reached, away it soars — a breath divine– in charmèd flight towards

immortality. One of the most curious phases in the life of New England, is its sudden

intellectual blossoming, seeds of which came as if blown from far-off lands. Some found

a resting-place in this little corner, where gathered daughters who felt  impelled to write.

Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson. Loom and Spindle, or, Life among the Early Mill Girls, with a Sketch of ‘The Lowell Offering’ and Some of Its Contributors. New York: T. Y. Crowell, c1898. https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/women-working-1800-1930/catalog/45-990022084580203941