10 Dec | Herstorical.Reflections

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Caroline Mehitable Fisher Sawyer (10 Dec 1812 – 19 May 1894 | Newton MA – Somerville MA) poet, author, essayist, translator, social activist, short fiction writer, Universalist’s women’s and children’s societies advocate.

Jane [Jeanie] McDowell Foster (10 Dec 1829 – 17 Jan 1903 | Pittsburgh PA – Pittsburgh PA) diarist, wife of songwriter Stephen Foster, aka Jane Denny McDowell Wiley, inspiration for song “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair”.

Emily Dickinson (10 Dec 1830 – 15 May 1886 | Amherst MA – Amherst MA) poet, baker, literary figure.

Mary Louisa Parmalee Peebles (10 Dec 1833 – 25 Apr 1915 | Lansingburgh NY – Lansingburgh NY) children’s author, pen name: Lynde Palmer.

Anna Mebus Martin (10 Dec 1843 – 10 Jul 1925 | DEU – Mason County TX) seamstress, entrepreneur, textile trader, Texas rancher, German-American, bank owner / founder, first female bank president born outside US.

08 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Alice Bunker Stockham (08 Nov 1833 – 03 Dec 1912 | Cardington OH – Alhambra CA) author, fifth female US doctor, philosophy school founder, birth control / gender equality / marital sexual fulfillment activist / advocate.

Maria Kraus-Boelté (08 Nov 1836 – 01 Nov 1918 | Hagenow DEU – Atlantic City NJ) author, essayist, professor, Froebel education advocate, kindergarten pioneer / founder, president of Kindergarten Department of National Education Association.

Lizzie Pitts Merrill Palmer (08 Nov 1838 – 28 Jul 1916 | Portland ME – Great Neck NY) educator, philanthropist, child activist, children’s educational school / child development research institute founder.

Katherine [Kate] Olivia Sessions (08 Nov 1857 – 24 Mar 1940 | San Francisco CA – San Diego CA) botanist, horticulturist, landscape architect, aka Mother of Balboa Park.

Margaret [Meta] Gladys Watkins (08 Nov 1884 – 10 Nov 1969 | Hamilton ON – Glasgow SCT) Canadian photographer, later recluse in Scotland, works discovered in her house after her death.

23 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Jame Mathews Adams (23 Oct 1840 – 11 Dec 1902 | Brooklyn NY – Redlands CA) poet, author, philanthropist, patron of arts / libraries

Molly Elliot Seawell (23 Oct 1860 – 15 Nov 1916 | Gloucester VA – Washington DC) historian, novelist, columnist, short story writer, non-fiction author

Neltje Blanchan De Graff Doubleday (23 Oct 1865 – 21 Feb 1918 | Chicago IL – Canton CN) nature writer, scientific historian, bird / wildflower specialist, American Red Cross active volunteer

Ethel Sturges Dummer (23 Oct 1866 – 25 Feb 1954 | Chicago IL – Winnetka IL) author, philanthropist, autobiographer, social welfare reformer

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (23 Oct 1889 – 28 Apr 1957 | Karlsruhe DEU – Rockville MD) German-American author, psychiatrist, innovative psychoanalyst, identified schizophrenogenic mother

18 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Edna Dean Proctor (18 Sep 1829 – 18 Dec 1923 | Henniker NH – Framingham MA) poet, author, short fiction writer, known as a master of pathos.

Lucy Martin Donnelly (18 September 1870 – 03 August 1948 | Ithaca NY – Bryn Mawr PA) poet, author, educator, letter correspondent.

Margarete Muehsam-Edelheim (18 Sep 1891 – 25 May 1975 | Berlin DEU- New York NY) editor, lawyer, journalist, women’s rights activist, emigrated from Nazi Germany, founded Leo Baeck Institute in New York.

Agnes George de Mille (18 Sep 1905 – 07 Oct 1993 | New York NY – New York NY) author, dancer, memoirist, master teacher, choreographer.

Edna Dean Proctor (18 Sep 1829 – 18 Dec 1923 | Henniker NH – Framingham MA) poet, author, short fiction writer, known as a master of pathos.

06 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Frances [Fanny] Wright (06 Sept 1795 – 13 Dec 1852 | Dundee SCT – Cincinnati OH) Scottish-American author, lecturer, feminist, freethinker, abolitionist, social reformer, utopian commune founder. ____________________________________________________________________

Catharine Esther Beecher (06 Sep 1800 – 12 May 1878 | East Hampton NY – Elmira NY) author, educator, school founder, anti-suffragist, domestic science teacher, educational activist, co-author with sister Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Phebe Cornell Wood (06 Sep 1816 – 30 Jun 1891 | Windmill Farm NY – Albion MI) folk figure, first female US telegraph operator.

Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska (06 Sep 1829 – 12 May 1902 | Berlin DEU – Jamaica Plain MA) feminist, abolitionist, women’s rights activist, pioneering female physician, founded New England Hospital for Women and Children: first hospital in Boston, first hospital with school for nurses, second US hospital run by women physicians / surgeons.

Eleanor Cecilia Donnelly (06 Sep 1838 – 30 Apr 1917 | Philadelphia PA – West Chester PA) poet, Catholic, biographer, short story writer, aka The Poet of the Pure Soul.

27 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Elsa Musselman Whitmer (27 Aug 1778 – Jan 1856 | Strasberg PA – Richmond MO) folklore figure, family matriarch, Mormon convert / excommunicant, one of two females known to witness the Book of Mormon Golden Plates.

Sophia Smith (27 Aug 1796 – 12 Jun 1870 | Hatfield MA – Hatfield MA) diarist, educator, deaf activist, philanthropist, public co-educational high school founder, founded / endowed / namesake of women’s Smith College.

Sarah [Sallie] Chapman Gordon Law (27 Aug 1805 – 28 Jun 1894 | Wilkes NC – Memphis TN) first recorded Confederate Civil War nurse, Southern Mothers Association president, aka Mother of the Confederacy.

Margaretha [Molly] Meyer-Schurz (27 Aug 1833 – 15 Mar 1875 | Hamburg DEU – Washington DC) German-American, child educator, Froebel system advocate, founded first US German-language kindergarten in Watertown WI.

Mary Anderson (27 Aug 1872 – 30 Jan 1964 | Lidköping SE – Washington DC) labor activist, Social Justice Feminist, women’s work advocate, autobiographical author, US Department of Labor Women’s Bureau head.

10 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Sargeant Neal Gove Nichols (10 Aug 1810 – 30 May 1884 | Goffstown NH – London UK) writer, lecturer, educator, suffragist, visionary, vegetarian, health reformer, autobiographer, hydrotherapy advocate, women’s rights activist.

Eliza Frances Andrews (10 Aug 1840 – 21 Jan 1931 | Washington GA – Rome GA) diarist, botanist, essayist, educator, memoirist, textbook author, magazine writer.

Mary Artemesia Lathbury (10 Aug 1841 – 20 Oct 1913 | Manchester NY – East Orange NJ) hymnist, children’s book author, religious periodical writer.

Gertrude Bloede (10 Aug 1845 – 14 Aug 1945 | Dresden DEU – Baldwin NY) German-born American poet, pen name: Stuart Sterne.

Mary [C. C.] Carroll Craig Bradford (10 Aug 1856 – 15 Jan 1938 | Brooklyn NY – Denver CO) politician, suffragist, Colorado State Superintendent of Public Instruction, first female delegate to 1908 Democratic National Convention, president: National Education Association, Colorado Federation of Women’s Clubs, and Colorado Springs Equal Suffrage Association.

28 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mother Benedicta [Sybilla] Riepp (28 Jun 1825 – 15 Mar 1862 | Waal DEU – St. Cloud MN) Benedictine nun, educator, missionary to Pennsylvania Germans.

Eliza Edmunds Hewitt (28 Jun 1851 – 24 Apr 1920 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) writer, hymnist, educator, Sunday School superintendent.

Helen Francis Hood (28 Jun 1863 – 22 Jan 1949 | Chelsea MA – Brookline MA) pianist, composer, teacher.

Alice May Douglas (28 Jun 1865 – 06 Jan 1943 | Bath ME – Bath ME) poet, peace activist, children’s author, newspaper editor, founder and composer of Peace Makers’ Band, head of Women’s Christian Temperance Union’s Peace and Arbitration.

Grace Rainey Rogers (28 Jun 1867 – 09 May 1943 | Cleveland OH – Greenwich CT) heiress, art collector, philanthropist.

12 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Lilian Jeannette Rice (12 Jun 1889 – 22 Dec 1938 | National City CA – Rancho Santa Fe CA) pioneering female eco-conscious architect.

Lela Campbell Murray (12 Jun 1890 – 18 Mar 1949 | Kentucky US – San Bernardino CA) social / civil rights activist, pioneering African-American dude ranch co-owner / manager.

Djuna Barnes (12 Jun 1892 – 18 Jun 1982 | Cornwall-on-Hudson NY – New York NY) poet, writer, journalist, illustrator, memoirist, playwright, sketch artist.

Viola Blanche Evans Dean (12 Jun 1892 – 31 May 1974 | Clay County AL – Goodwater AL) teacher, author, naturalist, illustrator, conservationist.

Anni Albers (12 Jun 1899 – 09 May 1994 | Berlin DEU – Orange CT) author, weaver, Bauhaus graduate, printmaker, mixed media artist, German-American textile artist, born Annelise Elsa Frieda Fleischmann, founded Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.

27 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Emma Jacobina Christiana Marwedel (27 Feb 1818 – 17 Nov 1893 | Münden DEU – San Francisco CA) German-American author, educator, feminist, children’s activist, Froebelian method teacher trainer, pioneer US kindergarten movement leader / activist / founder.

Esther Francesca [Fanny] Alexander (27 Feb 1837 – 21 Jan 1917 | Boston MA – Florence IT) author, illustrator, translator, philanthropist.

Eleanor Agnes Lee (27 Feb 1841 – 15 Oct 1873 | Arlington VA – Lexington VA) poet, diarist, memoirist, folk figure, Confederate military family daughter.

Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (27 Feb 1850 – 14 Jan 1943 | Boston MA – Gardiner ME) novelist, children’s poet, nonsense writer, biographer.

Kate Stephens (27 Feb 1853 – 10 May 1938 | Moravia NY – Lawrence KS) author, feminist, suffragist, biographer, short fiction writer, philanthropist, established Stephens Bequest.