13 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Esther Allen Howland (13 Jul 1801 – 14 Apr 1860 | Plymouth MA – Worcester MA) cookbook writer, editor / author of recipes, medical remedies, money-saving tips and advice.

Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield (13 Jul 1819 – 31 Mar 1876 | Natchez MS – Philadelphia PA) African-American singer, music teacher, abolitionist, aka The Black Swan, fundraiser for black orphans and the aged.

Mary Emily Foy (13 Jul 1862 – 21 Feb 1962 | Los Angeles CA – Los Angeles CA) librarian, educator, women’s rights activist, first female Head Librarian at Los Angeles Public Library [at age 18].

Mary Emma Woolley (13 Jul 1863 – 05 Sep 1947 | South Norwalk CT – Westport NY) author, educator, suffragist, peace activist, first female student at Brown University, 11th President of Mount Holyoke College.

June Etta Downey (13 Jul 1875 – 11 Oct 1932 | Laramie WY – Trenton NJ) poet, author, columnist, philosopher, psychologist, handwriting / personality researcher.

07 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Jane Elizabeth Dexter Conklin (07 Jul 1831 – 19 Dec 1914 | Utica NY – Utica NY) poet, elocutionist, religious writer, president of the Woman’s Relief Corps of Grand Army of the Republic.

Miriam Coles Harris (07 Jul 1834 – 23 Jan 1925 | Dosoris NY – Pau FR) novelist, children’s story writer, devotional book author.

Lillien Jane Martin (07 Jul 1851 – 26 Mar 1923 | Olean NY – San Francisco CA) author, psychologist, children’s advocate, anti-ageism / -sexism activist.

Nettie Maria Stevens (07 Jul 1861 – 04 May 1912 | Cavendish VT – Baltimore MD) author, biologist, geneticist, researcher, co-discovered XY-sex-determination-chromosome.

Charlotte Anita Whitney (07 Jul 1867 – 04 Feb 1955 | San Francisco CA – San Francisco CA) suffragist, political activist, women’s rights activist, early Communist Party USA organizer.

03 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Maria Martin Bachman (03 Jul 1796 – 18 Dec 1863 | Charleston SC – Columbia SC) artist, naturalist, Audubon illustrator.

Maria Amparo Maytorena Ruiz de Burton (03 Jul 1832 – 12 Aug 1895 | Loreto or La Paz CA – Chicago IL) author, novelist, playwright, feminist activist, political instigator, letter correspondent, first female Mexican-American author to publish in English.

Sarah Pratt [Sally] McLean Greene (03 Jul 1856 – 29 Dec 1935 | Simsbury CT – Lexington MA) poet, novelist.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (03 Jul 1860 – 17 Aug 1935 | Hartford CT – Pasadena CA) poet, novelist, lecturer, utopian feminist, social reformer, non-fiction writer, magazine editor, commercial artist.

Caroline Furness Jayne (03 Jul 1873 – 23 Jun 1909 | Philadelphia PA – Wallingford PA) author, ethnologist, research focus on string figures.

26 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah Pierce (26 Jun 1767 – 19 Jan 1852 | Litchfield CT – Litchfield CT) educator, girls’ school founder, women’s education advocate.

Loreta Janeta Velazquez (26 Jun 1842 – 26 Jan 1923 | Havana CU – Washington DC) memoirist, Confederate Civil War spy / soldier, aka Lieutenant Harry Buford, died as Loreta J. Beard at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital for the Insane.

Mary Abby Van Kleeck (26 Jun 1883 – 08 Jun 1972 | Glenham NY – Kingston NY) author, feminist, social activist, planned economy advocate.

Alice Leslie [Mopsie] Walker Kosmopoulos (26 Jun 1885 – 25 Jun 1954 | San Francisco CA – Santa Barbara CA) author, multi-linguist, archaeologist, leading expert of Neolithic Period in Southern Greece.

Elizabeth Denny Pierce Blegen (26 Jun 1888 – 21 Sep 1966 | Allegheny PA – Athens GR) author, classicist, educator, archaeologist, art history professor, assistant curator at Vassar’s Art Gallery.

23 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Anne Elizabeth McDowell (23 Jun 1826 – 30 Sep 1901 | Smyrna DE – Drexel Hill PA) editor, journalist, publisher, founded Woman’s Advocate weekly newspaper, founded McDowell Free Library for Women for workers at Wanamaker’s Department Store.

Agnes Dean Abbat (23 Jun 1847 – 01 Jan 1917 | New York NY – New York NY) artist, teacher, watercolorist, floral still life / landscape / coastal scene painter, second women elected to the American Water Color Society.

Louise Howland King Cox (23 Jun 1865 – 11 Dec 1945 | San Francisco CA – Windham CT) woodcarver, photographer, stained glass artist, children’s portrait painter.

Mabel Rivers Landrum Torrey (23 Jun 1886 – 01 Apr 1974 | Sterling CO – Ames IA) sculptor, ceramicist, children’s figure specialist, commissioned public sculptor.

Sarah Van Hoosen Jones (23 Jun 1892 – 1972 | Stony Creek MI – Rochester MI) author, breeder, civic leader, genetic researcher, first US female PhD in Animal Genetics.

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.

24 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Ynés Mexia (24 May 1870 – 12 Jul 1938 | Washington DC – Berkeley CA) artist, botanist, essayist, lecturer, photographer, independent scholar.

Lillian Evelyn Moller Gilbreth (24 May 1878 – 02 Jan 1972 | Oakland CA – Phoenix AZ) author, engineer, biographer, memoirist, psychologist, inventor / innovator.

Elsa Maxwell (24 May 1883 – 01 Nov 1963 | Keokuk IA – New York NY) author, columnist, songwriter, scriptwriter, professional hostess, treasure hunt / scavenger hunt innovator.

Mary Madeleva Evaline Wolff (24 May 1887 – 25 Jul 1964 | Cumberland WI – Boston MA) poet, abbess, medieval scholar, non-fiction author, aka Lady Abbess of Nun Poets.

Lois Fitzhugh Foster Blount (24 May 1896 – 02 Sep 1980 | Huntsville TX – Nacogdoches TX) teacher, historian, librarian, museum curator.

05 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Judith Sargent Murray (05 May 1751 – 09 Jun 1820 | Gloucester MA – Natchez MS) poet, essayist, feminist, playwright, letter writer, pioneering women’s rights advocate.

Ella Sterling Mighels (05 May 1853 – 10 Dec 1934 | Mormon Island CA – San Francisco CA) author, California pioneer, literary historian, pen name: Aurora Esmerelda.

Mary Virginia McCormick (05 May 1861 – 24 May 1941 | Chicago IL – Pacific Palisades CA) heiress, traveler, millionaire recluse, declared mentally incompetent at age 19, daughter of industrialist Cyrus McCormick.

Adelaide Florence Chase (05 May 1862 – 23 Feb 1900 | Fitchburg MA – Boston MA) author, editor, historian, publisher, member of US Women’s Relief Corps.

Elizabeth Cochran Seaman (05 May 1864 – 27 Jan 1922 | Cochran’s Mills PA – New York NY) inventor, novelist, industrialist, charity worker, pen name Nellie Bly, pioneering investigative journalist.

15 Apr | Herstorical.Reflections

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Catherine Carney Sager Pringle (15 Apr 1835 – 08 Aug 1910 | Union County OH – Spokane WA) diarist, pioneer, memoirist, survivor.

Ann Maria Miles Sprague (15 Apr 1837 – 27 Nov 1917 | Petersham MA – Westminster MA) educator.

Arabella H. Tucker (15 Apr 1857 – 12 Jun 1936 | North Brookfield MA – Auburn MA) author, botanist, educator, suffragist, clubwoman.

Milicent Washburn Shinn (15 Apr 1858 – 14 Aug 1940 | Niles CA – Alameda County CA) author, literary editor, child psychologist, early childhood development expert.

Emily James Smith Putnam (15 Apr 1865 – 07 Sep 1944 | Canandaigua NY – Kingston JAM) author, women’s educator.

01 Apr | Herstorical.Reflections

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Martha Wadsworth Brewster (01 Apr 1710 – c. 1757 | Lebanon CT – Lebanon CT) poet, writer.

Mary Richardson Walker (01 Apr 1811 – 21 Nov 1877 | Baldwin ME – Forest Grove OR) diarist, frontier missionary to Spokan Indians, co-founded Columbia Maternal Association, one of first six women to travel over Rocky Mountains.

Agnes Repplier (01 apr 1855 – 15 nov 1950 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) author, essayist, biographer, cat lover / owner.

Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge (01 Apr 1866 – 30 Jul 1948 | Lexington KY – Chicago IL) author, social activist / scientist, higher education innovator, Progressive Era social reformer.

Aurelia Isabel Henry Reinhardt (01 Apr 1877 – 28 Jan 1948 | San Francisco CA – Palo Alto CA) peace activist, Unitarian moderator, Mills College president [1916 – 1943], prominent member / leader of numerous organizations.