30 Jan | Herstorical.Reflections

Amalia Barney Simons Post (30 Jan 1826 – 28 Jan 1897 | Johnson VT – Cheyenne WY) pioneer, suffragist, 1869 instrumental in having franchise granted women in Wyoming Territory by the 1st Wyoming Territorial Legislature, 1871 delegate to Woman’s National Convention in Washington DC, 1873 vice-president of National Woman Suffrage Association.


Catharine Van Valkenburg Waite (30 Jan 1829 – 09 Nov 1913 | Dumfries ON – Chicago IL) author, attorney, suffragist, women’s rights activist, founded C. V. Waite & Co. publishing firm, founder / editor Chicago Law Times magazine, president of Woman’s International Bar Association.


Matilda Beatrice Samuel De Mille (30 Jan 1853 – 08 Oct 1923 | Liverpool UK – Hollywood CA) agent, playbroker, playwright, screenwriter, theatre actress, theatrical entrepreneur, aka Agnes Graham, Matilda Beatrice Samuel, Tillie Samuel, Mrs. Henry De Mille.


Emma Brown Malone (30 Jan 1859 – 12 May 1924 | Pickering ON – Cleveland OH) American Quaker, writer, social activist, co-founded Cleveland Bible School [later became Malone College], women’s ministerial activist / advocate.


Käte Frankenthal (30 Jan 1889 – 21 Apr 1976 | Kiel DEU – New York NY) German-American author, physician, memoirist, psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, socialist politician, marriage / family therapist.

14 Jan | Herstorical.Reflections

Mary Ann Frost Stearns Pratt (14 Jan 1809 – 24 Aug 1891 | Groton VT – Pleasant Grove, Utah Territory) midwife, essayist, early feminist, Mormon folk figure, legal / political activist, allegedly married to one or two original Church of Latter Day Saints founders.


Katharine Prescott Wormeley (14 Jan 1830 – 04 Aug 1908 | Ipswich UK – Jackson NH) author, philanthropist, volunteer Civil War nurse, French-English translator.


Juliet Corson (14 Jan 1841 – 18 Jun 1897 | Boston MA – New York NY) American author, teacher, social activist, cookbook author, cooking school founder.


Clara Kathleen Rogers (14 Jan 1844 – 08 Mar 1931 | Cheltenham UK – Boston MA) British-American writer, singer, composer, music educator, aka Clara Doria.


Cornelia [Nellie] Cole Fairbanks (14 Jan 1852 – 24 Oct 1913 | Marysville OH – Indianapolis IN) suffragist, US Vice-Presidential Second Lady, women’s political activist / pathfinder, founding member all-women’s Fortnightly Literary Club.

10 Jan | Herstorical.Reflections

Sally Foster Otis (10 Jan 1770 – 06 Sep 1838 | Boston MA – Boston MA) hostess, folk figure, Francophile, aka Queen of Boston Society.


Louisa Lane Drew (10 Jan 1820 – 31 Aug 1897 | London UK – Larchmont NY) British-American stage actress, theater owner, theatrical family matriarch.


Larcena Ann Pennington Page Scott (10 Jan 1837 – 31 Mar 1913 | Nashville TN – Tucson AZ) pioneer, Western folk heroine, Indian kidnap survivor.


Manie Payne Ferguson (10 Jan 1850 – 08 Jun 1932 | Carlow IE – Los Angeles CA) hymnist, evangelist, social activist, co-founded Peniel Mission, American Holiness Movement pioneer leader.


Mary Amelia Ingalls (10 Jan 1865 – 17 Oct 1928 | Pepin WI – De Smet SD) blind, folk / literary family figure, one of sisters of Little House on the Prairie.

09 Jan | Herstorical.Reflections

Sarah Pierpont Edwards (09 Jan 1710 – 02 Oct 1758 | New Haven CT – Philadelphia PA) author, mystic, pioneer woman, minister’s wife.


Rebecca Bryan Boone (09 Jan 1739 – 18 Mar 1813 | Winchester VA – Defiance MO) Quaker pioneer, folk figure, tavern keeper, community midwife, Kentucky State politician’s wife.


Catharine Parr Strickland Traill (09 Jan 1802 – 29 Aug 1899 | Rotherhithe UK – Lakefield ON) author, settler, naturalist, children’s writer, pioneer Canadian natural writer.


Anna Bishop Riviere (09 Jan 1810 – 19 Mar 1884 | London UK – New York NY) English-American operatic bel canto soprano.


Jennie Jerome Churchill (09 Jan 1854 – 29 Jun 1921 | Brooklyn NY – London UK) American-English, magazine editor, mother of Winston Churchill, aka Lady Randolph Churchill.

03 Jan | Herstorical.Reflections

Isabella Maria Hazzard Floyd (03 Jan 1773 – 18 Aug 1859 | Beaufort SC – Saint Marys GA) settler, member Daughters of American Revolution.


Lucretia Coffin Mott (03 Jan 1793 – 11 Nov 1880 | Nantucket MA – Cheltenham PA) Quaker author, speaker, educator, suffragist, abolitionist, women’s rights activist, autobiographical author.


Anne Ayres (03 Jan 1816 – 09 Feb 1896 | London UK – Long Island NY) British-American, religious author / biographer, social service minister, nursing director / administrator of St Luke’s Hospital, First Sister / Founder of US Episcopal religious order named Sisterhood of the Holy Communion.


Sophia B. Packard (03 Jan 1824 – 21 Jun 1891 | New Salem MA – Atlanta GA) educator, African-American women’s college co-founder [Spelman Seminary which became Spelman College].


Eliza Margaret Perry (03 Jan 1828 – 03 Jan 1862 | Pitosi MI – Austin TX) diarist, Texas pioneer / settler’s family member.

27 Dec | Herstorical.Reflections

Fannie Ogden Ide (27 Dec 1853 – 02 Jul 1927 | Brooklyn NY – Brooklyn NY) children’s author, penname: Ruth Ogden.


Florence Byrne Cartwright (27 Dec 1863 – 22 Sep 1944 | Galena IL – Salem OR) poet, sestina / metrical composition expert.


Mina Loy (27 Dec 1882 – 25 Sep 1966 | London UK – Aspen CO) British-born American poet, artist, novelist, actress, designer, futurist, bohemian, playwright, lamp designer, Christian Scientist, born Mina Gertrude Löwy.


Olgivanna Lloyd Wright (27 Dec 1898 – 01 Mar 1985 | Cetinje MNE – Scottsdale AZ) Montenegrin-American novelist, master sacred dancer, Gurdjieff / Theosophical member, F. L. Wright autobiographical editor / author, Taliesin Fellowship co-creator / director.

13 Dec | Herstorical.Reflections

Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln (13 Dec 1788 – 12 Apr 1869 | Elizabethtown KY – Coles County IL) pioneer, educational mentor, political family figure, Abraham Lincoln’s step-mother.


Mary Todd Lincoln (13 Dec 1818 – 16 Jul 1882 | Lexington KY – Springfield IL) political family member, US Presidential First Lady, born 30 years to the day after Abraham Lincoln’s step-mother Sarah Bush Lincoln.


Pauline Jacobus (13 Dec 1840 – 1930 | Chicago IL – Dousman WI) potter, founded Pauline Pottery company, opened first art pottery studio in Chicago.


Emily Carr (13 Dec 1871 – 02 Mar 1945 | Victoria BC – Victoria BC) artist, author, memoirist, landscape painter, Canadian cultural icon.


Eleanor Robson Belmont (13 Dec 1879 – 24 Oct 1979 | Wigan UK – New York NY) actress, patron of arts, philanthropist, British-American.

06 Dec | Herstorical.Reflections

Susanna Strickland Moodie (06 Dec 1803 – 08 Apr 1885 | Bungay UK – Toronto ON) English-Canadian poet, artist, novelist, memoirist, children’s author.


Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm (06 Dec 1815 – 22 Jul 1884 | Pittsburgh PA – Lawrenceville PA) lecturer, feminist, social reformer, Civil War nurse, autobiographer, anti-slavery advocate, first woman founder / publisher of US newspaper.


Nina [Bonina] Morais Cohen (06 Dec 1855 – 19 Feb 1918 | Philadelphia PA – Minneapolis MN) magazine writer, English literature teacher, leader in Minneapolis’ woman’s club movement, founding member of National Council of Jewish Women.


Minerva Josephine Chapman (06 Dec 1858 – 14 Jun 1947 | Sand Bank [Altmar] NY – Palo Alto CA) artist, author, still life / landscape / miniature portrait painter.


Clara Lipman Mann (06 Dec 1864 – 22 Sep 1952 | Chicago IL – New York NY) playwright, stage actress.

02 Dec | Herstorical.Reflections

Mary Mortimer (02 Dec 1816 – 14 Jul 1877 | Trowbridge UK – Milwaukee WI) educator, woman’s club leader, art history lecturer, co-founded Milwaukee College, founded Industrial School for Girls of Milwaukee [middle image courtesy of Lawrence.edu].


Elizabeth Lyle Saxon (02 Dec 1832 – 14 Mar 1915 | Greenville TN – Memphis TN) speaker, memoirist, women’s rights activist, pioneer Southern suffrage leader.


Grace Mac Gowan Cooke (02 Dec 1861 – 24 Jun 1944 | Brooklyn NY – Santa Clara CA) novelist, co-writer with sister Alice Mac Gowan.


Ruth Draper (02 Dec 1884 – 30 Dec 1956 | New York NY – New York NY) diseuse, actress, dramatist, memoirist.


Josephine Aspinwall Roche (02 Dec 1886 – 26 Jul 1976 | Neligh NE – Bethesda MD) activist, politician, industrialist, humanitarian, New Deal administrator, first female Denver police officer, United Mine Workers administrator, Foreign Language Information Services director.

26 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

Sarah Moore Grimké (26 Nov 1792 – 23 Dec 1873 | Charleston SC – Boston MA) writer, lawyer, speaker, suffragist, abolitionist, feminist, women’s laws / legal activist.


Lilly Martin Spencer (26 Nov 1822 – 22 May 1902 | Exeter UK – New York NY) French-American artist, genre painter, born Angelique Marie Martin.


Ellen Gould Harmon White (26 Nov 1827 – 16 Jul 1915 | Gorham ME – Saint Helena CA) author, religious pioneer, Seventh Day Adventist co-founder / leader / visionary / prophetess.


Mary Edwards Walker (26 Nov 1832 – 21 Feb 1919 | Oswego NY – Oswego NY) surgeon, alleged spy, feminist, suffragist, abolitionist, prohibitionist, prisoner of war, only woman [as of 2015] ever awarded US Medal of Honor.