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.

12 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Lilian Jeannette Rice (12 Jun 1889 – 22 Dec 1938 | National City CA – Rancho Santa Fe CA) pioneering female eco-conscious architect.

Lela Campbell Murray (12 Jun 1890 – 18 Mar 1949 | Kentucky US – San Bernardino CA) social / civil rights activist, pioneering African-American dude ranch co-owner / manager.

Djuna Barnes (12 Jun 1892 – 18 Jun 1982 | Cornwall-on-Hudson NY – New York NY) poet, writer, journalist, illustrator, memoirist, playwright, sketch artist.

Viola Blanche Evans Dean (12 Jun 1892 – 31 May 1974 | Clay County AL – Goodwater AL) teacher, author, naturalist, illustrator, conservationist.

Anni Albers (12 Jun 1899 – 09 May 1994 | Berlin DEU – Orange CT) author, weaver, Bauhaus graduate, printmaker, mixed media artist, German-American textile artist, born Annelise Elsa Frieda Fleischmann, founded Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.

17 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Annie [Narna] Payson Call (17 May 1853 – 02 Feb 1940 | Arlington MA – Waltham MA) author, healer, librarian, Swedenborgian, writer for Ladies Home Journal.

Mary Devens (17 May 1857 – 13 Mar 1920 | Ware MA – Cambridge MA) pictorial photographer, Photo-Secession member.

Helen May Butler Young (17 May 1867 – 16 Jun 1957 | Keene NH – Covington KY) bandmaster, aka The Female Sousa, first all-women brass band leader.

Dorothy Gibson (17 May 1889 – 17 Feb 1946 | Hoboken NJ – Paris, France) actress, scriptwriter, Titanic survivor, acted in first Titanic film, alleged WWII intelligence operative.

Louise Crenshaw Ray (17 May 1890 – 23 Oct 1956 | Butler AL – Birmingham AL) poet.

12 Apr | Herstorical.Reflections

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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 | Herstorical.Reflections

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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 | Herstorical.Reflections

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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 | Herstorical.Reflections

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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.