29 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Ann Lee (29 Feb 1736 – 08 Sep 1784 | Manchester UK – Watervliet NY) aka Mother Ann Lee, Ann Elizabeth Lees, leader of the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, or Shakers.

Emmeline Blanche Woodward Harris Whitney Wells (29 Feb 1828 – 25 Apr 1921 | Petersham MA – Salt Lake City UT) poet, editor, diarist, journalist, women’s rights activist, fifth Relief Society General President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints [LDS Church].

Augusta Savage (29 Feb 1892 – 27 Mar 1962 | Green Cove Springs FL – New York NY) African-American sculptor, associated with Harlem Renaissance, born Augusta Christine Fells.

25 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Idawalley [Ida] Zorada Lewis-Wilson (25 Feb 1842 – 25 Oct 1911 | Newport RI – Newport RI) folk figure, lighthouse keeper, heroic lifesaver.

Anna Fisher Beiler (25 Feb 1848 – 01 Apr 1904 | Newcastle-upon-Tyne UK – Buffalo NY) lecturer, missionary, newspaper editor, philanthropist, temperance activist, Methodist Episcopal Secretary of the Bureau for District of Alaska.

Margaret Howell Davis Hayes (25 Feb 1855 – 18 Jul 1909 | Washington DC – Colorado Springs CO) Daughters of the Confederacy leader, Confederate political family member.

Daisie Adelle Davis (25 Feb 1904 – 31 May 1974 | Lizton IN – Palos Verdes Estates CA) author, nutritionist, cookbook writer, aka Jane Dunlap, LSD experimenter, natural food activist / advocate.

Mary Coyle Chase (25 Feb 1906 – 20 Oct 1981 | Denver CO – Denver CO) journalist, playwright, screenwriter, children’s novelist, 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, born Mary Agnes McDonough Coyle.

19 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (19 Feb 1830 – 15 Feb 1912 | Hitesburg VA – Bloomfield NJ) author, memoirist, novelist, journal writer, fundraiser, preservationist, Civil War historian, social / community / women and children’s activist.

Elizabeth Ann Claridge McCune (19 Feb 1852 – 01 Jan 1924 | Bedfordshire UK – Salt Lake City UT) civic activist, genealogy lecturer, pioneering unofficial female Mormon missionary, advocated LDS allow single women as missionaries [1898].

Annie Nathan Meyer (19 Feb 1867 – 23 Sep 1951 | New York NY – New York NY) author, playwright, Barnard College founder, women’s educational rights activist / advocate.

Lugenia Burns Hope (19 Feb 1871 – 14 Aug 1947 | St Louis MO – Nashville TN) social reformer, civil rights activist, African-American, community organizer, Atlanta Neighborhood Union founder / director.

Mae Elizabeth [Hope] Hampton (19 Feb 1897 – 23 Jan 1982 | Houston TX – New York NY) actress, producer, aspiring opera singer.

18 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Harriet Farley Dunlevy (18 Feb 1817 – 12 Nov 1907 | Claremont NH – New York NY) editor, writer, social / cultural activist, managed ‘Lowell Offering’ literary magazine published by women textile mill workers.

Ida Husted Harper (18 Feb 1851 – 14 Mar 1931 | Franklin County IN – Washington DC) author, editor, teacher, columnist, journalist, suffragist.

Henrietta Christian Wright (18 Feb 1854 – 13 Dec 1899 | Old Bridge Township NJ – Old Bridge Township NJ) children’s science / history / literature author.

Annie Heloise Abel-Henderson (18 Feb 1873 – 14 Mar 1947 | Fernhurst UK – Aberdeen WA) author, historian, professor, book reviewer.

Mary Williams [Molly] Dewson (18 Feb 1874 – 01 Oct 1962 | Quincy MA – Castine ME) feminist, lesbian, social reformer, political activist.

14 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Frances [Fanny] Keeling Valentine Allan (14 Feb 1784 – 28 Feb 1829 | Richmond VA – Richmond VA) literary folk figure, E. A. Poe’s foster-mother / first teacher, taught Poe to read and write, gave Poe his middle name Allan.

Sarah Louise Browning Knox-Goodrich (14 Feb 1825 – 30 Oct 1903 | Culpeper VA – San Jose CA) suffragist, political / women’s rights activist, commissioned Knox-Goodrich Building, Goodrich quarry provided stone for Stanford University construction.

Anna Howard Shaw (14 Feb 1847 – 02 Jul 1919 | Newcastle-upon-Tyne UK – Moylan PA) orator, physician, suffragist, social reformer, women’s leader, autobiographical author, one of first ordained American female Methodist ministers.

Sallie Florence Casey Thayer (14 Feb 1856 – 10 Sep 1925 | Covington KY – San Diego CA) art collector / benefactor, donated her collections to Spencer Art Museum in Lawrence KS.

Virginia Frazer Boyle (14 Feb 1863 – 13 Dec 1938 | Chattanooga TN – Memphis TN) poet, author.

12 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams (12 Feb 1775 – 15 May 1852 | London UK – Washington DC) English-American diarist, harpist, travel writer, US Presidential First Lady.

Mary Pickersgill (12 Feb 1776 – 04 Oct 1857 | Philadelphia PA – Baltimore MD) folk figure, seamstress, flag maker, entrepreneur, philanthropist.

Almira [Myra] Willey Colby Bradwell (12 Feb 1831 – 14 Feb 1894 | Manchester VT – Chicago IL) attorney, publisher, political activist, founding editor Chicago Legal News, first woman admitted to Illinois Bar, denied initial admittance to IL and US Supreme Court.

Frances [Fannie] Barrier Williams (12 Feb 1855 – 04 Mar 1944 | Brockport NY – Brockport NY) teacher, lecturer, journalist, social / civil rights activist.

Alice Woodby McKane (12 Feb 1865 – 06 Mar 1948 | Bridgewater PA – Savannah GA) poet, first female doctor in Savannah GA, co-founded McKane Training School for [Black] Nurses.

30 Jan | Herstorical.Reflections

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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

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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

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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

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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.