20 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Mary Smith Garrett (20 Jun 1839 – 18 Jul 1925 | Philadelphia PA – North Conway NH) author, deaf educator, proponent of speech for deaf [in addition to sign language].

Susan Marcia Oakes Woodbury (20 Jun 1865 – 07 Nov 1913 | South Berwick ME – Ogunquit ME) artist, author, painter, Dutch portrait specialist, Dutch Masters art commentator.

Leah Baird (20 Jun 1883 – 03 Oct 1971 | Champaign IL – Los Angeles CA) silent actress, film producer, screenwriter.

Erica Tietze-Conrat (20 Jun 1883 – 12 Dec 1958 | Vienna AT – New York NY) Austrian-American, author, academic, art historian, one of first women to study art history.

Mary Ross Calvert (20 Jun 1884 – 25 Jun 1974 | Nashville TN – Nashville TN) author, astro-photographer, astronomical computer, high-level assistant at Yerkes Observatory, Yerkes photographic plate collection curator.

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.

24 Apr | Women’s Words & Works

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Annis Bertha Ford Eastman (24 Apr 1852 – 22 Oct 1910 | Peoria IL – Elmira NY) author, lecturer, suffragist, theologian, philosopher, first NY State ordained female minister.

Virna Sheard (24 Apr 1862 – 22 Feb 1944 | Cobourg ON – Toronto ON) poet, novelist, pen name Stanton Sheard.

Gemma La Guardia Gluck (24 Apr 1881 – 01 Nov 1962 | New York NY – New York NY) memoirist, Italian-Jewish-American, Holocaust survivor, citizen of US and Hungary, sister of Fiorello La Guardia [first Italian-American Mayor of NYC].

Rowena Meeks Abdy (24 Apr 1887 – 18 Aug 1945 | Vienna AT – San Francisco CA) plein-air painter.

Sara Campbell (24 Apr 1890 – 18 Nov 1965 | Dover TN – Paducah KY) poet, author, flag designer, aka The Betsy Ross of Paducah.

15 Mar | Women’s Words & Works

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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.