05 Dec | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (05 Dec 1822 – 27 Jun 1907 | Boston MA – Arlington MA) author, educator, Radcliffe College co-founder / first president, natural history researcher.

Jane Loeau (05 Dec 1828 – 30 Jul 1873 | Waimea HI – Puunui HI) Chiefess of Kingdom of Hawaii, controversial royal Hawaiian family member.

Susan Hale (05 Dec 1833 – 17 Sep 1910 | Boston MA – Matunuck RI) artist, author, educator, world traveler, literary / Unitarian family member.

Alice Brown (05 Dec 1857 – 21 Jun 1948 | Hampton Falls NH – Boston MA) poet, novelist, biographer, playwright.

Maria Louise Anna Beaudet (05 Dec 1859 – 31 Dec 1947 | Tours FR – New York NY) opera singer, French Canadian, stage / silent film actress, opera touring company founder.

24 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Ann White Johnson (24 Aug 1808 – 05 May 1872 | Westmoreland NH – New York NY) abolitionist, lecturer on physiology, matron of Sing Sing Prison, prison reform advocate, founding member of New England Non-Resistance Society.

Eliza Jane Trimble Thompson (24 Aug 1816 – 03 Nov 1905 | Hillsboro OH – Hillsboro OH) aka Mother Thompson, non-violent temperance Visitation Bands leader, founded Ohio Women’s Crusade Against Alcohol [basis for Women’s Christian Temperance Union].

Marie Brose Tepe Leonard (24 Aug 1834 – 14 May 1901 | Bretagne FR – Pittsburgh PA) Civil War vivandière, aka Fearless French Mary, wounded / survived war but died by suicide years later.

Laura Drake Gill (24 Aug 1860 – 03 Feb 1926 | Chesterville ME – Berea KY) professor, administrator, college president, educational reformer.

Mary Arizona [Zonia] Baber (24 Aug 1862 – 10 Jan 1956 | Clark IL – Chicago IL) geologist, feminist, anti-racist, geographer, anti-imperialist, textbook author, desk designer, geography instruction innovator, peace monument historian, co-founded Geography Society of Chicago, member of WILPF [Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.

05 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Silvia Dubois (05 Mar 1788 – 27 May 1888 | Sourland Mountain NJ – Sourland Mountain NJ) domestic, fieldworker, freed slave, tavern owner, ferrywoman, oral historian, subject of Silvia Dubois: A Biografy of the Slav who Whipt Her Mistres and Gand Her Fredom by C. W. Larison.

Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie (05 Mar 1819 – 21 Jul 1870 | Bordeaux FR – Twickenham UK) American author, actress, playwright, public reader.

Lucy Larcom (05 Mar 1824 – 17 Apr 1893 | Beverly MA – Boston MA) poet, Rushlight Literary Magazine founder.

Constance Fenimore Woolson (05 Mar 1840 – 24 Jan 1894 | Claremont NH – Venice IT) poet, novelist, travel writer, short story writer.

Harriet Newell Noyes (05 Mar 1844 – 16 Jan 1924 | Guilford Township OH – Seville OH) author, educator, Presbyterian missionary, founded the True Light Middle School / first women’s school in Canton Province in China.