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.

Rose Terry Cooke (17 Feb 1827 – 18 Jul 1892 | West Hartford CT – Pittsfield MA) poet, author, humorist, women’s biographer.

Margaret Warner Morley (17 Feb 1858 – 12 Dec 1923 | Montrose IA – Washington DC) novelist, educator, biologist.

Jessie Love Smith Gaynor (17 Feb 1863 – 20 Feb 1921 | St Louis MO – Webster Groves MO) author, musician, children’s music composer.

16 Feb | Women.Words.Work

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Sarah Anne Ellis Dorsey (16 Feb 1829 – 04 Jul 1879 | Natchez MS – New Orleans LA) US Southern novelist, lecturer, historian, philanthropist.

Mary Houston Allen (16 Feb 1839 – 14 May 1927 | Coweta County GA – Shanghai CN) women’s rights / education activist, Methodist Episcopal foreign missionary wife, graduated with high honors from Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia.

Harriet [Hatty] Sophia Rowley (16 Feb 1853 – 06 Oct 1943 | New York NY – Springfield MA) commonplace book writer.

Laura Coates Reed (16 Feb 1857 – 29 Nov 1938 | West Chester PA – Kansas City MO) poet, editor.

Edith Dimock Glackens (16 Feb 1876 – 28 Oct 1955 | Hartford CT – Hartford CT) aka Teed, painter, visual artist, ironic / satirical watercolorist.

11 Feb | Women.Words.Work

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Jarena Lee (11 Feb 1783 – 1855 | Cape May NJ – New Jersey US) memoirist, religious writer, autobiographical author, pioneering female traveling African Methodist Episcopal [AME] minister.

Lydia Maria Child (11 Feb 1802 – 20 Oct 1880 | Medford MA – Wayland MA) author, activist, novelist, journalist, Unitarian, abolitionist, children’s book writer.

Adelaide Rossiter Judd (11 Feb 1821 – 19 Dec 1904 | Torrington CT – Seneca Falls NY) political family member.

Minerva Amanda Sanders (11 Feb 1837 – 20 Mar 1912 | Marblehead MA – Pawtucket RI) teacher, first librarian of the Pawtucket Free Public Library, pioneer library services innovator.

Maria Louise Eve (11 Feb 1842 – 05 Apr 1900 | Augusta GA – Augusta GA) poet, prose writer, educator, social reformer.

09 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Sarah Pierpont Edwards (09 Jan 1710 – 02 Oct 1758 | New Haven CT – Philadelphia PA) author, mystic, pioneer woman, minister’s wife.

Rebecca Bryan Boone (09 Jan 1739 – 18 Mar 1813 | Winchester VA – Defiance MO) Quaker pioneer, folk figure, tavern keeper, community midwife, Kentucky State politician’s wife.

Catharine Parr Strickland Traill (09 Jan 1802 – 29 Aug 1899 | Rotherhithe UK – Lakefield ON) author, settler, naturalist, children’s writer, pioneer Canadian natural writer.

Anna Bishop Riviere (09 Jan 1810 – 19 Mar 1884 | London UK – New York NY) English-American operatic bel canto soprano.

Jennie Jerome Churchill (09 Jan 1854 – 29 Jun 1921 | Brooklyn NY – London UK) American-English, magazine editor, mother of Winston Churchill, aka Lady Randolph Churchill.

08 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Ida Whipple Benham (08 Jan 1849 – 21 May 1903 | Quakertown CT – Ledyard CT) poet, hymnist, educator, peace activist, American Peace Society director, Universal Peace Union executive committee member.

Fanny Bullock Workman (08 Jan 1859 – 22 Jan 1925 | Worcester MA – Cannes FR) author, explorer, geographer, cartographer.

Ellen Churchill Semple (08 Jan 1863 – 08 May 1932 | Louisville KY – West Palm Beach FL) author, geographer, Presidential advisor, president American Geographers, first female president of any US academic organization.

Mary Kenney O’Sullivan (08 Jan 1864 – 18 Jan 1943 | Hannibal MO – West Medford MA) bookbinder, dressmaker, settlement house activist, labor movement organizer, founded Women’s Trade Union League, factory Inspector for Massachusetts Board of Labor and Industries.

Ellen Hattie Clapsaddle (08 Jan 1865 – 07 Jan 1934 | South Columbia NY – New York NY) illustrator, commercial artist, prolific souvenir / postcard / greeting card artist.