10 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Phebe Folger Coleman (10 Nov 1771 – 05 Feb 1857 | Nantucket MA – Nantucket MA) poet, diarist, teacher, watercolorist, commonplace book author / illustrator.

Julia Zitella Cocke (10 Nov 1840 – 03 Dec 1929 | Perry County AL – Gadsden AL) poet, composer, essayist, translator, short fiction writer.

Cornelia Thurza Crosby (10 Nov 1854 – 11 Nov 1946 | Phillips ME – Lewiston ME) aka Fly Rod, columnist, sportswoman, first Registered Maine Guide [male or female].

Mabel Loomis Todd (10 Nov 1856 – 14 Oct 1932 | Cambridge MA – Hog Island ME) editor, writer, literary figure, known for editing / publishing Emily Dickinson’s poetry.

Jennette Barbour Perry Lee (10 Nov 1861 – 16 Oct 1951 | Bristol CT – Northampton MA) author, professor, novelist.

09 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Ann Shadd Cary (09 Oct 1823 – 05 Jul 1893 | Wilmington DE – Washington DC) lawyer, teacher, publisher, journalist, African-American, anti-slavery / Underground Railroad activist, first black woman publisher in Canada and North America.

Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (09 Oct 1830 – 21 Feb 1908 | Watertown MA – Watertown MA) neo-classical sculptor.

Elizabeth Chase Akers Allen (09 Oct 1832 – 07 Aug 1911 | Strong ME – Tuckahoe NY) poet, author, journalist, pen names: Florence Percy and Elizabeth Akers.

Caroline [Carrie] Olivia Mayhew Speake (09 Oct 1834 – 20 Mar 1906 | Alabama US – Alabama US) poet, artist, musician [note: allegorical image created as no images of this woman or her works were located.

Elaine Goodale Eastman (09 Oct 1863 – 22 Dec 1953 | Mount Washington MA – Hadley MA) poet, author, novelist, educator, Native American Sioux advocate, aka The Sister of the Sioux.

05 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Rebecca Mann Pennell Dean (05 Oct 1821 – 05 Mar 1890 | Utica NY – New York NY) artist, professor, Antioch College co-founder.

Sara J. Hatcher Duncan (05 Oct 1869 – 18 Jul 1906 | Cahaba AL – Selma AL) author, schoolteacher, African-American social activist, founded Missionary Searchlight newspaper, president of African Methodist Episcopal Church’s Women’s Home and Foreign Missionary Society.

Elizabeth Coleman White (05 Oct 1871 – 11 Nov 1954 | New Lisbon NJ – Whitesbog NJ) agricultural specialist, child care / child labor educational activist, co-developer of commercialized cultivated blueberry, first female in American Cranberry Association, organized New Jersey Blueberry Cooperative Association.

Berenice Crumb Wyer (05 Oct 1873 – 29 Jan 1960 | St. Louis MO – Brookline MA) pianist, composer, lecturer, art song writer, composed for piano / organ / violin.

Belle Linder Moskowitz (05 Oct 1877 – 02 Jan 1933 | Harlem NY – New York NY) social worker / reformer, press agent / political advisor, women’s rights activist / organizer.

24 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Lois Lathrop Cutler (24 Sep 1788 – 23 Mar 1878 | Lebanon NH – Oak Lake MN) Mormon pioneer, mother of fourteen, Female Relief Society activist.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (24 Sep 1825 – 22 Feb 1911 | Baltimore MD – Philadelphia PA) poet, author, essayist, feminist, abolitionist, African-American, aka The Bronze Muse, civil rights / temperance activist.

Katharine [Kate] Brownlee Sherwood (24 Sep 1841 – 15 Feb 1914 | Poland OH – Washington DC) poet, journalist, clubwoman, women’s relief leader, Poetess of Congressional Circle.

Winifred Edgerton Merrill (24 Sep 1862 – 06 Sep 1951 | Ripon WI – Fairfield CT) astronomer, first female Columbia University graduate, first US woman PhD in mathematics.

Cornelia Bowen (24 Sep 1865 – 09 Jul 1934 | Tuskegee AL – Mount Meigs AL) writer, teacher, educator, administrator, in the first graduating class of Tuskegee Institute, founded Mount Meigs Colored Institute and Negro Boys’ Reformatory.

23 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Moody Emerson (23 Aug 1774 – 01 May 1863 | Concord MA – Concord MA) poet, author, literary family member, mentor to her nephew Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Lillie Hitchcock Coit (23 Aug 1843 – 22 Jul 1929 | Mobile AL – San Francisco CA) folk figure, aka Firebell Lil, philanthropist, cookbook author, Coit Tower benefactor, San Francisco Volunteer Firefighters patroness, born Elizabeth Wyche Hitchcock.

Sarah Frances Whiting (23 Aug 1847 – 12 Sep 1927 | Wyoming NY – Wilbraham MA) author, essayist, physicist, astronomer, first professor of physics at Wellesley College, funded Whiting Observatory at Wellesley.

Amelie Louise Rives Troubetzkoy (23 Aug 1863 – 15 Jun 1945 | Richmond VA – Cismont VA) poet, novelist, playwright.

Edith Lake Wilkinson (23 Aug 1868 – 19 Jul 1957 | Wheeling WV – Huntington WV) lesbian, studied at Arts Student League of New York, degree from Columbia Teacher’s College [1905], Provincetown MA artist / printmaker, committed to mental hospitals [from 1924 till her death] [Note: middle image from HBO documentary © 2022 Greenie Films and Little Mama, Inc.].

30 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Emma Millinda Gillett (30 Jul 1852 – 23 Jan 1927 | Princeton WI – Washington DC) lawyer, clubwoman, National Woman’s Party member, women’s law education activist / advocate, first female Notary Public appointed by US President.

Julia Henrietta Gulliver (30 Jul 1856 – 25 Jul 1940 Norwich CT – Eustis FL) author, educator, philosopher, Rockford College president, second US woman awarded PhD.

Lucy Angeline Bacon (30 Jul 1857 – 17 Oct 1932 | Pitcairn NY – San Francisco CA) artist, art teacher, American Impressionist.

Elizabeth Ross Haynes (30 Jul 1883 – 26 Oct 1953 | Mount Willing AL – New York NY) author, YWCA advocate, civil rights activist, social reformer / researcher.

Bertha Fanning Taylor (30 Jul 1883 – 03 Jul 1980 | New York NY – Norfolk VA) curator, painter, author, educator, art critic, illustrator, art historian.

26 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Lucy Newhall Danforth Colman (26 Jul 1817 – 18 Jan 1906 | Sturbridge MA – Syracuse NY) author, teacher, columnist, abolitionist, Free Thought writer, women’s rights activist.

Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer (26 Jul 1822 – 04 Jan 1904 | London UK – Baltimore MD) writer, historian, translator.

Maria Fearing (26 Jul 1838 – 1937 | Gainesville AL – Sumter AL) educator, missionary, children’s advocate, freed African-American slave.

Abigail May Alcott Nieriker (26 Jul 1840 – 29 Dec 1879 | Concord MA – Paris FR) artist, art teacher, literary family figure, sister of Louisa May Alcott, aka Abba and Abby.

Tatzumbie DuPea (26 Jul 1849 – 26 Feb 1970 | Lone Pine CA – Los Angeles CA) aka Beautiful Star, Paiute writer / actress / activist / spokesperson, died at age 121.

06 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill (06 Jul 1799 – 01 Jun 1879 | New Haven CT – Princeton NJ) juvenile fiction writer, girls’ / women’s domestic guidebook author.

Sophia Willard Dana Ripley (06 Jul 1803 – 04 Feb 1861 | Cambridge MA – Manhattan NY) Transcendentalist, Roman Catholic convert, co-founded Utopian community Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education in West Roxbury MA.

Elizabeth Sager Helm (06 Jul 1837 – 19 Jul 1925 | Union County OH – Portland OR) survivor, memoirist, Oregon Trail Pioneer, orphaned twice: biological parents on The Trail (1844) and adoptive parents on The Trail in Whitman Massacre (1847).

Maria Howard Weeden (06 Jul 1846 – 12 Apr 1905 | Huntsville AL – Huntsville AL) poet, artist, author.

Julia Hunt Catlin Park DePew Taufflieb (06 Jul 1864 – 17 Dec 1947 | Bennington VT – Cannes FR) socialite, philanthropist, WWI activist, first US woman awarded French Croix de Guerre and Legion d’Honneur.

05 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Hannah Clark Johnston Bailey (05 Jul 1839 – 23 Oct 1923 | Cornwall-on-Hudson NY – Portland ME) writer, lecturer, publisher, peace activist, pamphleteer, National Council of Women treasurer, Maine Women’s Suffrage Association president.

Frances Christine Tiernan (05 Jul 1846 – 24 Mar 1920 | Salisbury NC – Salisbury NC) author, novelist, aka Christian Reid.

Mary Augusta Jordan (05 Jul 1855 – 14 Apr 1941 | Ironton OH – New Haven CT) editor, author, lecturer, librarian, professor.

Wanda Landowska (05 Jul 1879 – 16 Aug 1959 | Warsaw PO – Lakeville CT) author, harpsichordist, musicologist, piano pedagogue, performing artist, first person to record Bach’s Goldberg Variations [1933].

Marjorie Stinson (05 Jul 1895 – 15 Apr 1975 | Fort Payne AL – Washington DC) aviation pioneer, aeronautical draftswoman, ninth female licensed US pilot, aviation training school co-owner / instructor, aka The Flying Schoolgirl.

19 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Tenney Gray (19 Jun 1833 – 11 Oct 1904 | Liberty PA – Kansas City KS) poet, editor, clubwoman, suffragist, fundraiser, philanthropist, cookbook publisher, editorial writer, aka Mother of the Woman’s Culture Club in Kansas.

Mary Sibbet Copley Thaw (19 Jun 1843 – 09 Jun 1929 | near Kittanning PA – Pittsburgh PA) heiress, philanthropist, funded archaeology research, female archaeologist advocate.

Mary Roxanna Platt Hatch (19 Jun 1848 – 28 Nov 1935 | Stratford NH – Santa Monica CA) editor, author, playwright, club woman, magazine writer, pen-name Mabel Percy and Mary R. P. Hatch.

Elizabeth Louise Clarke [Pyrnelle] Parnell (19 Jun 1850 – 26 Aug 1907 | Perry County AL – Birmingham AL) children’s / young adult novelist.

Elizabeth [Bessie] Marbury (19 Jun 1856 – 22 Jan 1933 | New York NY – New York NY) lesbian, literary agent, pioneering theatrical producer, modern commercial theatre business methods innovator.