06 Feb | Women.Words.Work

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Louise Deshong Woodbridge (06 Feb 1848 – 31 Oct 1925 | Chester PA – Chester PA) socialite, philanthropist, landscape photographer.

Henriette Dessaulles (06 Feb 1860 – 17 Nov 1946 | Saint-Hyacinthe QC – Montreal QC) pioneering diarist, columnist, journalist, pen-name Fadette.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould (06 Feb 1879 – 27 Jul 1944 | Brockton MA – Princeton NJ) author, essayist, short story writer.

Anne Bethel Spencer (06 Feb 1882 – 27 Jul 1975 | Henry County VA – Lynchburg VA) poet, teacher, gardener, librarian, civil rights activist.

Effie Louise Smith (06 Feb 1861 – 09 Aug 1893 | Westminster VT – Athens VT) poet.

20 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Harriet Eaton Stanton Blatch (20 Jan 1856 – 20 Nov 1940 | Seneca Fall NY – Greenwich CT) writer, speaker, suffragist.

Julia Morgan (20 Jan 1872 – 02 Feb 1957 | San Francisco CA – San Francisco CA) architect, Arts and Crafts Movement supporter, first female AIA Gold Medalist [posthumous award].

Zelda Paldi Sears (20 Jan 1873 – 19 Feb 1935 | Brockway Township MI – Hollywood CA) novelist, actress, lyricist, playwright, screenwriter, businesswoman.

Drusilla Dunjee Houston (20 Jan 1876 – 08 Feb 1941 | Harpers Ferry WV – Phoenix AZ) author, musician, educator, journalist, columnist, screenwriter, independent historian, co-founded Oklahoma City chapters of YWCA / Red Cross / NAACP, one of first leaders of Oklahoma Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs, contributing editor to Oklahoma Black Dispatch [first black newspaper in Oklahoma City, founded by brother Roscoe Dunjee].

Irma LeVasseur (20 Jan 1877 – 18 Jan 1964 | Quebec City QC – Quebec City QC) physician, pioneering pediatrician, first French-Canadian female doctor.

18 Dec | Women’s Words & Works

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Phoebe Worrall Palmer Knapp (18 Dec 1807 – 02 Nov 1874 | New York NY – New York NY) author, hymnist, religious pioneer, Christian music advocate.

Sarah Tittle Bolton (18 Dec 1814 – 05 Aug 1893 | Newport KY – Indianapolis IN) poet, author, women’s / property rights activist, aka Indiana’s Pioneer Poet.

Josephine Sophia White Griffing (18 Dec 1814 – 18 Feb 1872 | Hebron CT – Washington DC) suffragist, abolitionist, women’s rights activist, Freedmen’s movement member [Note: no images of this woman are known to exist].

Henrietta Muir Edwards (18 Dec 1849 – 10 Nov 1931 | Montreal QC – Fort Macleod AB) author, suffragist, women’s rights reformer.

01 Nov | Women’s Words & Works

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Frances Miriam Berry Whitcher (01 Nov 1811 – 04 Jan 1852 | Whitestown NY – Whitestown NY) poet, author, satirist, humorist.

Lydia Brooks Campbell (01 Nov 1818 – 29 Apr 1905 | Hamilton Inlet NL – Mulligan River NL) diarist, pioneer, aka Aunt Lydia, Inuit-Canadian, autobiographical author.

Dame Emma Albani (01 Nov 1847 – 03 Apr 1930 | Chambly QC – London UK) Canadian-English operatic soprano, born Marie-Louise-Emma-Cécile Lajeunesse.

Caroline Virginia Still Anderson (01 Nov 1848 – 01 Jun 1919 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) writer, educator, physician, temperance / civil rights activist, one of first African-American female physicians, co-founded Berean Manual Training and Industrial School.

Wilhelmina Eisenmayer Warkentin (01 Nov 1852 – 05 Jul 1932 | Horse Prairie IL – Newton KS) folk figure, pioneer Mennonite farmer, mistress of Warkentin Home.

30 Sep | Women’s Words & Works

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Lucinda Hinsdale Stone (30 Sep 1814 – 23 Mar 1851 | Hinesburg VT – Kalamazoo MI) educator, feminist, suffragist, abolitionist, aka Mother of Clubs, Ladies Library Association leader, autobiographical author, women’s education program innovator.

Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis (30 Sep 1832 – 09 May 1905 | Culpeper VA – Philadelphia PA) social activist, community organizer, founder of Civil War Mothers’ Day Work Clubs, maternal inspiration for founding Mother’s Day [by daughter Anna Marie Jarvis].

Fannie Ruth Robinson (30 Sep 1847 – 29 Apr 1925 | Carbondale PA – Newark OH) poet, author, educator, academic administrator, president of Oxford Female College [Ohio].

Mary Roger Williams (30 Sep 1857 – 17 Sep 1907 | Hartford CT – Florence IT) American Impressionist, oil / pastel portrait / landscape artist.

Faith Fyles (30 Sep 1875 – 22 Oct 1961 | Cowansville QC – Ottawa ON) author, artist, botanist, seed analyst, director of the Arboretum, first botanical artist with Canadian Horticulture Department.

20 Sep | Women’s Words & Works

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Lidian Jackson Emerson (20 Sep 1802 – 13 Nov 1892 | Plymouth MA – Concord MA) intellectual, literary figure / hostess, abolitionist, animal welfare activist, women’s / Native American rights advocate.

Elizabeth [Libby] Smith Miller (20 Sep 1822 – 22 May 1911 | Peterboro NY – Geneva NY) author, suffragist, biographer, women’s dress code reformer, women’s movement financial supporter.

Kate Harrington (20 Sep 1831 – 29 Sep 1917 | Allegheny City PA – Fort Madison IA) poet, teacher, children’s author, primer and speller writer, born Rebecca Harrington Smith, aka Rebecca Smith Pollard, pioneered / produced first sequential reading program of intensive synthetic phonics for children used in American public schools [till 1937].

Alice Rollit Coe (20 Sep 1858 – 08 Dec 1940 | Rawdon QC – Seattle WA) poet, author, immigrant, pen name: May B. Knott.

Edith Guerrier (20 Sep 1870 – 1958 | New Bedford MA – Boston MA) author, librarian, progressive library program activist, founded Paul Revere Pottery and Saturday Night Girls groups in Boston’s North End.

21 Aug | Women’s Words & Works

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Mary Lizzie Macomber (21 Aug 1861 – 04 Feb 1916 | Fall River MA – Boston MA) Pre-Raphaelite painter.

Alice Schille (21 Aug 1869 – 06 Nov 1955 | Columbus OH – Columbus OH) painter, watercolorist, art teacher.

Winnifred Eaton (21 Aug 1875 – 08 Apr 1954 | Montreal QC – Butte MT) novelist, screenwriter, pen name: Onoto Watanna.

Queena Mario (21 Aug 1896 – 28 May 1951 | Akron OH – New York NY) operatic soprano, opera professor, newspaper columnist, opera-themed mystery novelist, pen name: Florence Bryant, born Queena Mariana Tillotson.

Constance McLaughlin Winsor Green (21 Aug 1897 – 05 Dec 1975 | Ann Arbor MI – Annapolis MD) author, historian, Laureate for Pulitzer Prize in History [1963].

02 Aug | Women’s Words & Works

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Marie-Anne Gaboury Lagimodière (02 Aug 1780 – 14 Dec 1875 | Maskinongé QC – Saint-Boniface MB) pioneer / settler, Canadian folk figure, aka Grandmother of the Red River.

Hannah Jones Armstrong Wilcox (02 Aug 1810 – 19 Aug 1890 | Illinois US – Winterset IA) folk figure, Lincoln neighbor, Lincoln defended her son Duff in Almanac Trial.

Carrie Estelle Betzold Doheny (02 Aug 1875 – 30 Oct 1958 | Philadelphia PA – Los Angeles CA) philanthropist, library foundress, rare book collector, founded Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation, donated book collection to St John’s Seminary (Camarillo CA), funded construction of St Vincent’s Church (LA) and buildings at Loyola Marymount University (LA), former Doheny home Chester Place became Mount St Mary’s College campus, awarded title of Papal Countess (1939) by Pope Pius XII for her services to Catholic Church.

Mittie Maude Lena Gordon Nelson (02 Aug 1889 – 1961 | Webster Parish LA – Ethiopia) African-American, black nationalist, civil rights activist, established Peace Movement of Ethiopia.

Kate [Kathe] Steinitz (02 August 1889 – 07 April 1975 | Upper Silesia [now Poland] – Los Angeles CA) artist, art historian, focus on Bauhaus / Dadaist movement.

27 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Hannah Mather Crocker (27 Jun 1752 – 11 Jul 1829 | Roxbury MA – Boston MA) essayist, educator, school founder, women’s rights activist, advocate for women Freemasons, Revolutionary War spy, authored first American book on rights of women.

Maria Monk (27 Jun 1816 – 08 Sep 1849 | Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu QC – Roosevelt Island NY) author, memoirist, religious sister, controversial Canadian folk figure, alleged infanticide / systemic sexual abuse in Catholic convent.

Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney (27 Jun 1824 – 19 Nov 1904 | Boston MA – Jamaica Plain MA) writer, editor, reformer, philanthropist, secretary of School of Design for Women.

Eugenia Scholay Washington (27 Jun 1838 – 30 Nov 1900 | Charles Town WV – Washington DC) historian, civil servant, co-founded Daughters of American Revolution / Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America.

Harriet Hubbard Ayer (27 Jun 1849 – 23 Nov 1903 | Chicago IL – New York NY) socialite, journalist, essayist, kidnap victim, proto-feminist, founded first successful US female-owned cosmetics company, editor of New York World newspaper women’s pages, highest paid US female journalist at the time of her death.

16 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Mary Katherine Goddard (16 Jun 1738 – 12 Aug 1816 | Groton CT – Baltimore MD) editor, printer, publisher, Baltimore MD Post Office postmistress, first newspaper publisher in Providence RI, first to print US Declaration of Independence with names of signatories.

Jane [Jenny] Marsh Parker (16 Jun 1836 – 13 Mar 1913 | Milan NY – Rochester NY) fiction / nonfiction author.

Belle Brezing (16 Jun 1859 – 11 Aug 1940 | Lexington KY – Lexington KY) madam, folk figure, aka The American Magdalene, basis for Belle Watling in Gone with the Wind [Brezing’s last name had one ‘e’ — except on her headstone, where it was mispelled Breezing].

Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson (16 Jun 1891 – 06 Dec 1948 | Montreal QC – Montreal QC) painter, member of Beaver Hall Hill Group / Canadian Group of Painters.

Jennie Grossinger (16 Jun 1892 – 20 Nov 1972 | Baligrod AH- Liberty NY) hotelier, restaurateur, cookbook author.