06 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Zerelda G. Wallace (06 Aug 1817 – 19 Mar 1901 | Bourbon KY – Jennings IN) author, suffragist, temperance leader, First Lady of Indiana.

Myrtle Fillmore (06 Aug 1845 – 06 Oct 1931 | Pagetown OH – Lees Summit MO) author, memoirist, school teacher, New Thought practitioner, Unity Church co-founder, née Mary Caroline Page, aka Mother of Unity.

Susie Baker King Taylor (06 Aug 1848 – 06 Oct 1912 | Liberty GA – Boston MA) memoirist, social activist, Civil War nurse, aka The Black Clara Barton.

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt (06 Aug 1861 – 30 Sep 1948 | Norwich CT – Oyster Bay NY) US First Lady, social activist, knitter and needlework artist.

Elizabeth Robins (06 Aug 1862 – 08 May 1952 | Louisville KY – Brighton UK) actress, novelist, playwright, suffragist, pen name: C. E. Raimond.

30 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Emma Millinda Gillett (30 Jul 1852 – 23 Jan 1927 | Princeton WI – Washington DC) lawyer, clubwoman, National Woman’s Party member, women’s law education activist / advocate, first female Notary Public appointed by US President.

Julia Henrietta Gulliver (30 Jul 1856 – 25 Jul 1940 Norwich CT – Eustis FL) author, educator, philosopher, Rockford College president, second US woman awarded PhD.

Lucy Angeline Bacon (30 Jul 1857 – 17 Oct 1932 | Pitcairn NY – San Francisco CA) artist, art teacher, American Impressionist.

Elizabeth Ross Haynes (30 Jul 1883 – 26 Oct 1953 | Mount Willing AL – New York NY) author, YWCA advocate, civil rights activist, social reformer / researcher.

Bertha Fanning Taylor (30 Jul 1883 – 03 Jul 1980 | New York NY – Norfolk VA) curator, painter, author, educator, art critic, illustrator, art historian.

17 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Eunice Newton Foote (17 Jul 1819 – 30 Sep 1888 | Goshen CT – Lenox MA) scientist, inventor, essayist, women’s rights campaigner, portait / landscape painter, early greenhouse effect researcher, signatory of Women’s Declaration of Sentiments.

Odille Morison (17 Jul 1855 – 21 Dec 1933 | Lax Kw’alaams BC – Metlakatla BC) Canadian linguist, translator, artifacts collector, First Nation Tsimshian leader.

Linda Anne Eastman (17 Jul 1867 – 05 Apr 1963 | Oberlin OH – Cleveland Heights OH) author, librarian, children’s library room innovator.

Louise Waterman Wise (17 Jul 1874 – 10 Dec 1947 | New York NY – New York NY) artist, Zionist, translator, social worker, women’s health activist.

Gladys Amanda Reichard (17 Jul 1893 – 25 Jul 1955 | Bangor PA – Flagstaff AZ) author, professor, anthropologist, Navajo culture and language specialist.

15 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps (15 Jul 1793 – 15 Jul 1884 | Berlin CT – Baltimore MD) author, educator, botanist, naturalist, textbook publisher.

Almira Olmstead Ambler (15 Jul 1807 – 26 Jun 1891 | Wilton CT – Danbury CT) folk figure, Civil War Union nurse, social activist / commentator.

Olive Risley Seward (15 Jul 1844 – 27 Nov 1908 | Fredonia NY – Washington DC) memoirist, travel writer, founded Literary Society of Washington.

Lorraine J. Pitkin (15 Jul 1845 – 1922 | Waddington NY – Chicago IL) women’s activist, political postmaster, community activist, Order of the Eastern Star leader, compiled / published sheet music, co-organized Masonic Orphans Homes, member / president Woman’s Relief Corps.

Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini (15 Jul 1850 – 22 Dec 1917 | Sant’Angelo IT – Chicago IL) educator, missionary, memoirist, Catholic saint, Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart founder / director.

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.

12 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sara Tappan Lawrence Doolittle Robinson (12 Jul 1827 – 15 Nov 1911 | Belchertown MA – Lawrence KS) author, Kansas historian, First Lady of Kansas, first donor for Santa Fe Trail Marker, founded research table for women in Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole MA.

Lucy Fitch Perkins (12 Jul 1865 – 18 Mar 1937 | Maples IN – Pasadena CA) children’s book author / illustrator, know for her prolific Twins series.

Cora Ethel Eaton Howarth Crane (12 Jul 1868 – 05 Sep 1910 | Boston MA – Jacksonville FL) writer, journalist, bordello / nightclub owner, common-law wife to author Stephen Crane.

Annie Carroll Moore (12 Jul 1871 – 20 Jan 1961 | Limerick ME – New York NY) author, mentor, educator, librarian, book critic, children’s library activist / advocate, aka the Grande Dame of Children’s [Library] Services.

Hettie Gray Baker (12 Jul 1880 – 14 Nov 1957 | Hartford CT – Porter Corner NY) author, librarian, film editor, title writer, screenwriter, movie executive, censor representative for Twentieth Century Fox.

08 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Maria White Lowell (08 Jul 1821 – 27 Oct 1853 | Watertown MA – Cambridge MA) poet, reformer, translator, abolitionist, temperance activist, women’s rights advocate, letter correspondent, literary family member, married to poet James Russell Lowell.

Martha [Mittie] Stewart Bulloch Roosevelt (08 Jul 1835 – 14 Feb 1884 | Hartford CT – New York NY) political family member, mother of US President Theodore Roosevelt.

Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln (08 Jul 1844 – 02 Dec 1921 | South Attleboro MA – Boston MA) cooking teacher, cookbook author, domestic science pioneer, aka Mrs. D. A. Lincoln.

Ella Reeve Bloor (08 Jul 1862 – 10 Aug 1951 | Staten Island NY – Richlandtown PA) social reformer, political activist, children’s book writer, autobiographical author, aka Mother Bloor.

Wilma Lucille Van Slyck (08 Jul 1898 – 28 Jun 1982 | Cincinnati OH – West Covina CA) American landscape artist.

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.

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.