12 Apr | Women.Words.Work

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Mollie Evelyn Moore [M. E. M.] Davis (12 Apr 1844 – 01 Jan 1909 | Talladega AL – New Orleans LA) poet, editor, author, salon hostess.

Ella Gaunt Smith (12 Apr 1868 – 02 Apr 1932 | Roanoke AL – Roanoke AL) doll designer / manufacturer.

Imogen Cunningham (12 Apr 1883 – 24 Jun 1976 | Portland OR – San Francisco CA) author, mentor, photographer.

Ethel Moseley Damon (12 Apr 1883 – 01 Apr 1965 | Honolulu HI – Kauai HI) author, teacher, essayist, historian, playwright, pamphleteer, Decorated WW I Red Cross nurse.

Eleanor [Leonia] Touroff Glueck (12 Apr 1898 – 25 Sep 1972 | Brooklyn NY – Cambridge MA) author, criminologist, juvenile delinquency specialist expert.


11 Apr | Women.Words.Work

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Margaret Moffette Houston (11 Apr 1819 – 03 Dec 1867 | Marion AL – Independence TX) political family member, First Lady of the Republic of Texas.

Lurana Waterhouse Sheldon Ferris (11 Apr 1862 – 11 Jun 1945 | Hadlyme CT – York ME) poet, lecturer, novelist, suffragist, freethinker, newspaper editor, anti-prohibitionist, pen names Richard Hackstaff, Stanley Norris, Grace Shirley.

Lillie Plummer Bliss (11 Apr 1864 – 12 Mar 1931 | Boston MA – New York NY) art patron / collector, philanthropist.

Mary White Ovington (11 Apr 1865 – 15 Jul 1951 | Brooklyn NY – Newton Highlands MA) suffragist, journalist, social / civil rights activist, NAACP co-founder.

Annie Dodge Wauneka (11 Apr 1910 – 10 Nov 1997 | Navajo Nation AZ – Flagstaff AZ) Navajo, health / education activist, Navajo Nation Council leader.

02 Apr | Women.Words.Work

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Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews (02 Apr 1860 – 02 Aug 1936 | Mobile AL – Syracuse NY) novelist, short story writer.

Clara Pierce Wolcott Driscoll (02 Apr 1861 – 06 Nov 1944 | Tallmadge OH – Tallmadge OH) director of Tiffany Girls, stained glass crafter / designer / innovator.

Clara Driscoll (02 Apr 1881 – 17 Jul 1945 | St Mary’s of Aransas TX – Corpus Christi TX) novelist, politician, comic opera writer, philanthropist, historic preservationist, multilinguist.

Helen Barten Brewster Owens (02 Apr 1881 – 06 Jun 1968 | Pleasanton KS – Martinsburg WV) suffragist, mathematician, women’s activist, professor of mathematics at Cornell University.

Verna Willis (02 Apr 1887 – 11 Dec 1966 | Iversdale IL – Los Angeles CA) film editor, film works credited and uncredited.

16 Mar | Women.Words.Work

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Lucy Virginia French (16 Mar 1825 – 31 Mar 1881 | Accomack County VA – McMinnville TN) poet, author, songwriter, pen name L’Inconnue.

Anna B. Alcott Pratt (16 Mar 1831 – 13 Jul 1893 | Germantown PA – Concord MA) author, folk / literary family figure.

Clara Weaver Parrish (16 Mar 1861 – 11 Nov 1925 | Selma AL – New York NY) painter, illustrator, printmaker, stained glass window designer.

Sara Corning (16 Mar 1872 – 05 May 1969 | Chegoggin NS – Yarmouth NS) nurse, humanitarian, WWI Red Cross nurse, saved wartime orphans, founded orphanage on Island of Syros, graduate of Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Hanover, New Hamsphire.

Loja Saarinen (16 Mar 1879 – 21 Apr 1968 | Helsinki FI – Bloomfield Hills MI) author, sculptor, textile artist, Finnish-American, opened Studio Loja Saarinen, founded weaving department at Cranbrook Academy of Art, born Minna Carolina Mathilde Louise Gesellius.

27 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Eunice Hale Waite Cobb (27 Jan 1803 – 02 May 1880 | Kennebunk ME – East Boston MA) author, activist, memoirist, public speaker.

Eliza Allen Billings (27 Jan 1826 – 1866 | Eastport ME – Eastport ME) memoirist, adventurer, disguised male soldier George Mead in Mexican-American War.

Ella Weed (27 Jan 1853 – 10 Jan 1894 | Newburgh NY – New York NY) author, educator, satirical novelist, Barnard College fundraiser / founding member.

Augusta Foss Heindel (27 Jan 1865 – 15 May 1949 | Mansfield OH – Oceanside CA) Danish-American author, esoteric astrologer.

Geneva Mercer (27 Jan 1889 – 02 Mar 1984 | Jefferson AL – Demopolis AL) painter, sculptor.

17 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Mary Jane Whitely Coggeshall (17 Jan 1836 – 22 Dec 1911 | Milton IN – Des Moines IA) writer, speaker, suffragist, first editor Woman’s Standard, aka the Mother of Woman Suffrage in Iowa, first woman west of Mississippi to join the National American Woman Suffrage Association [NAWSA].

Alva Erskine Smith Belmont (17 Jan 1853 – 26 Jan 1933 | Mobile AL – Paris FR) socialite, suffragist, librettist, philanthropist, multi-millionaire, architectural endower / decorator.

Edith Stuyvesant Dresser Gerry (17 Jan 1873 – 21 Dec 1958 | Newport RI – Providence RI) heiress, socialite, social activist, philanthropist, once the wealthiest woman in Rhode Island.

Josie Bassett Morris (17 Jan 1874 – 01 May 1964 | Hot Springs AR – Jensen UT) potter, pioneer, basket maker, cattle rancher, folk figure affiliated with The Wild Bunch Gang, rumored to have been Butch Cassidy’s sweetheart.

Cora Wilson Stewart (17 Jan 1875 – 02 Dec 1958 | Farmers KY – Columbus NC) educator, social reformer, founded Moonlight Schools to teach illiterate adults.

11 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Caroline Mathilda Stansbury Kirkland (11 Jan 1801 – 06 Apr 1864 | New York NY – New York NY) writer, editor, social activist, Domestic School co-founder.

Harriet Maxwell Converse (11 Jan 1836 – 18 Nov 1903 | Elmira NY – New York NY) poet, author, adopted Iroquois, aka Yaiewano / Gayaneshaoh.

Martha Strudwick Young (11 Jan 1862 – 09 May 1941 | Newbern AL – Greensboro AL) poet, novelist, lecturer, short fiction writer, children’s book author.

Anna Schoen-René (11 Jan 1864 – 1942 | Berlin DEU – New York NY) German-American author, musician, memoirist, music teacher, entrepreneur, aka Godmother of Minnesota Orchestra, considered first woman to conduct an orchestra in the USA.

Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice (11 Jan 1870 – 10 Feb 1942 | Shelbyville KY – Louisville KY) novelist.

10 Nov | Women.Words.Work

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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 | Women.Words.Work

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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 | Women.Words.Work

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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.