01 Apr | Women.Words.Work

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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.

30 Mar | Women.Words.Work

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Eliza Grew Jones (30 Mar 1803 – 28 Mar 1838 | Providence RI – Bangkok, Siam [THAI]) memoirist, Biblical historian, American Baptist missionary to Burma and Siam, created first Siamese-English dictionary, invented Romanized script for writing Siamese language.

Ann Sophia Winterbotham Stephens (30 Mar 1810 – 20 Aug 1886 | Derby CT – Newport RI) poet, author, novelist, essayist, magazine editor and founder.

Julia Elizabeth Christiansen Hoffman (30 Mar 1856 – 30 Nov 1934 | Manti UT – Portland OR) artist, arts patron, Arts and Crafts curator / teacher, eponym of Hoffman Gallery at OCAC, first person to walk across Willamette River Bridge, founded Arts and Crafts Society of Portland [later the Oregon College of Art and Craft].

Mary Whiton Calkins (30 Mar 1863 – 26 Feb 1930 | Hartford CT – Newton MA) author, researcher, philosopher, psychologist, autobiographical author, Wellesley professor, earned Harvard PhD but un-awarded because of gender, first female president of American Psychological Association and American Philosophical Association.

Helen Abbot Merrill (30 Mar 1864 – 01 May 1949 | Llewellyn Park NJ – Wellesley MA) educator, mathematician, textbook author.

21 Mar | Women.Words.Work

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Mary Dixon Kies (21 Mar 1752 – 1837 | Killingly CT – Brooklyn NY) milliner, inventor, first female US patent holder [1809], invented new method of weaving straw with silk and thread.

Lucy Taft Fisher (21 Mar 1805 – 20 Jan 1854 | Wendell MA – Oregon City OR) pioneer, American Baptist Home missionary.

Antonia Maury (21 Mar 1866 – 08 Jan 1952 | Cold Spring NY – Dobbs Ferry NY) author, astronomer, published early catalog of stellar spectra.

Amy Eliza Tanner (21 Mar 1870 – 01 Feb 1956 | Owatonna MN – Worcester MA) author, psychologist, doctor of philosophy, spiritual medium researcher, theater owner / manager, girls / women’s club activist.

Anna Strunsky Walling (21 Mar 1877 – 25 Feb 1964 | Babinots RU – San Francisco CA) author, Socialist, novelist, essayist, social / political activist.

20 Mar | Women.Words.Work

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Sophia Fowler Gallaudet (20 Mar 1798 – 13 May 1877 | near Guildford CT – Washington DC) born deaf, lobbyist for deaf education, founding matron of National Deaf-Mute College [later Gallaudet College].

Mary Elizabeth Moore Hewitt (20 Mar 1807 – 17 Sep 1884 | Malden MA – Chicago IL) poet, editor.

Cornelia Phillips Spencer (20 Mar 1825 – 11 Mar 1908 | Harlem NY – Cambridge MA) poet, hymnist, journalist, social historian, first female to receive honorary degree from University of North Carolina.

Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell (20 Mar 1845 – 10 Mar 1888 | Urumiah IR – Lausanne CH) American author, historian, ancient art expert.

Maria Longworth Nichols Storer (20 Mar 1849 – 30 Apr 1932 | Cincinnati OH – Paris FR) potter, patron of arts, Rookwood Pottery Company founder.

12 Mar | Women.Words.Work

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Jane Means Appleton Pierce (12 Mar 1806 – 02 Dec 1863 | Hampton NH – Andover MA) US Presidential First Lady, aka The Shadow of the White House.

Elizabeth Crocker Bowers (12 Mar 1830 – 06 Nov 1895 | Stamford CT – Philadelphia PA) stage actress, theatrical / music academy manager.

Dora Wheeler Keith (12 Mar 1856 – 07 Dec 1940 | New York NY – Brooklyn NY) artist, designer, illustrator, realist painter, aka Mrs. Boudinot Keith.

Alice Harriman Browne (12 Mar 1861 – 24 Dec 1925 | Newport ME – Hollywood CA) poet, editor, novelist, publisher, short story writer, nonfiction author, aka The Only Woman Publisher in the World.

Clara Bowdoin Winthrop (12 Mar 1876 – 15 Mar 1969 | Boston MA – Boston MA) poet, art collector, philanthropist.

02 Mar | Women.Words.Work

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Sarah Eleanor Bayliss Royce (02 Mar 1819 – 23 Nov 1891 | Stratford-upon-Avon UK – Santa Rosa CA) diarist, author, pioneer, memoirist.

Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (02 Mar 1831 – 26 Jun 1885 | Erie PA – Ho-Ho-Kus NJ) mystery writer, aka Seeley Regester.

Annie Eliot Trumbull (02 Mar 1857 – 22 Dec 1949 | Hartford CT – Hartford CT) poet, author, playwright.

Susanna Madora [Dora] Kinsey Salter (02 Mar 1860 – 17 Mar 1961 | Lamira OH – Norman OK) politician, prohibitionist, community activist, religious / political activist, member of Women’s Christian Temperance Union [WCTU], first female Mayor of Argonia KS, one of first women elected to any US political office.

Mabel Ward Cameron (02 Mar 1863 – 22 Feb 1923 | Boston MA – Hartford CT) author, biographer.

26 Feb | Women.Words.Work

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Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell (26 Feb 1849 – 22 Jul 1883 | Holly Springs MS – Holly Springs MS) novelist, feminist, short story writer.

Alice Mabel Bacon (26 Feb 1858 – 01 May 1918 | New Haven CT – New Haven CT) nonfiction author, foreign advisor to Japan, international women’s educator.

Lavinia Lloyd Dock (26 Feb 1858 – 17 Apr 1956 | Harrisburg PA – Chambersburg PA) nurse, author, feminist, women’s rights activist, nursing education pioneer, helped form National League of Nursing, contributing editor to American Journal of Nursing.

Mabel Ganson Evans Dodge Sterne Luhan (26 Feb 1879 – 13 Aug 1962 | Buffalo NY – Taos NM) author, hostess, memoirist, patron of women’s arts / artists / writers, Native American culture promoter, pioneer US psychoanalysis patient.

Elizabeth Hawley Gasque Van Exem (26 Feb 1886 – 02 Nov 1989 | Blythewood SC – Ridgeway SC) author, lecturer, politician, first female SC State Representative, longest lived member of US House or Senate.

23 Feb | Women.Words.Work

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Emma Hart Willard (23 Feb 1787 – 15 Apr 1870 | Berlin CT – Troy NY) poet, author, educator, graphic illustrator, founded Troy Female Seminary.

Margaret Deland (23 Feb 1857 – 13 Jan 1945 | Allegheny PA – Boston MA) poet, novelist, short story writer, autobiographer, born Margaretta Wade Campbell.

Katherine Rebecca Pettit (23 Feb 1868 – 03 Sep 1936 | Fayette County KY – Lexington KY) author, progressive educator, co-founded Pine Mountain Settlement School.

Agnes Smedley (23 Feb 1892 – 06 May 1950 | Osgood MO – Oxford UK) author, journalist, biographer, spy / triple agent, autobiographical novelist, women’s rights / birth control / children’s welfare activist.

Elinor Remick Warren (23 Feb 1900 – 27 Apr 1991 | Los Angeles CA – Los Angeles CA) pianist, contemporary classical music composer.

22 Feb | Women.Words.Work

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Isabella Beecher Hooker (22 Feb 1822 – 25 Jan 1907 | Litchfield CT – Hartford CT) author, suffragist activist / leader / lecturer.

Rebecca Sophia Clarke (22 Feb 1833 – 10 Aug 1906 | Norridgewock ME – Norridgewock ME) aka Sophie May, children’s serial novelist.

Margaret Elizabeth Munson Sangster (22 Feb 1838 – 03 Jun 1912 | New Rochelle NY – South Orange Village NJ) poet, editor, hymnist, short story writer, autobiographical author.

Anna Giaccaglia Hill (22 Feb 1851 – 18 Feb 1931 | Cincinnati OH – Hollywood CA) Annetta Saloski, operatic soprano, aka The Toast of Milan.

Ann Maria [Annie] Le Porte Diggs (22 Feb 1853 – 07 Sep 1916 | London ON – Detroit MI) poet, author, activist, journalist, librarian, Canadian-born American, national speaker / first female delegate for National People’s Party Convention [Omaha NE 1892].

17 Feb | Women.Words.Work

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Ellen Sturgis Hooper (17 Feb 1812 – 03 Nov 1848 | Boston MA – Boston MA) poet, Transcendentalist.

Sallie Holley (17 Feb 1818 – 12 Jan 1893 | Canandaigua NY – New York NY) author, educator, abolitionist, co-founded Holley School for freed slaves, active member of American Anti-Slavery Association, lifelong companion / work partner with Caroline F. Putnam.