18 Sep | Women.Words.Work

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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 | Women.Words.Work

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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 | Women.Words.Work

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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 | Women.Words.Work

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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.