06 Nov | Women.Words.Work

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Micaela Almonester, Baroness de Pontalba (06 Nov 1795 – 20 Apr 1874 | New Orleans LA – Paris FR) aristocrat, land developer, businesswoman, art / folk / literary figure.

Mary Owens Cook (06 Nov 1831 – 07 Mar 1918 | Cincinnati OH – Des Moines IA) pioneer, civic / social activist, natural and adoptive mother, adoption legislation activist / advocate [note: generic image of mother and child].

Anna Harriet Edwards Leonowens (06 Nov 1831 – 19 Jan 1915 | Ahmednagar IND – Montreal QC) Canadian, teacher, folk figure, suffragist, memoirist, women’s activist, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design co-founder.

Angie Warren Perkins (06 Nov 1858 – 28 Jan 1921 | Danielson CT – Knoxville TN) author, educator, travel writer, club woman, first female dean University of Tennessee.

Helen Bradford Thompson Woolley (06 Nov 1874 – 24 Dec 1947 | Chicago IL – Havertown PA) author, psychologist, gender-difference researcher, pioneer in child developmental studies.

05 Nov | Women.Words.Work

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Eliza Chappell Porter (05 Nov 1807 – 01 Jan 1888 | Geneseo NY – Santa Barbara CA) educator, Civil War nurse, social activist / reformer, normal school founder, Chicago’s first public school teacher. 

Georgeanna Muirson Woolsey Bacon (05 Nov 1833 – 27 Jan 1906 | Brooklyn NY – New Haven CT) nurse, author, memoirist, letter correspondent, Civil War Union nurse, co-founded Connecticut Training School for Nurses at New Haven Hospital.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (05 Nov 1850 – 30 Oct 1919 | Johnstown WI – Short Beach CT) poet, author.

Ida Minerva Tarbell (05 Nov 1857 – 06 Jan 1944 | Hatch Hollow PA – Bridgeport CT) author, teacher, journalist, feminist in actions, anti-suffragist views.

Hannah Jane Patterson (05 Nov 1879 – 21 Aug 1937 | Smithton PA – Pittsburgh PA) suffragist, social reformer.

30 Oct | Women.Words.Work

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Temperance [Tempe] Wick Tuttle (30 Oct 1758 – 26 Apr 1822 | Mendham NJ – Morristown NJ) American Revolutionary War folk figure.

Sarah Ewing Hall (30 Oct 1761 – 08 Apr 1830 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) Christian literature poet, educator, essayist, Bible translator and commentator.

Mary Austin Holley (30 Oct 1784 – 31 Jul 1827 | New Haven CT – New Orleans LA) settler, explorer, historical author.

Rebecca Cromwell Rouse (30 Oct 1799 – 23 Dec 1887 | Salem MA – Cleveland OH) social reformer, women’s activist / advocate.

25 Oct | Women.Words.Work

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Mary Hempstead Keeney Lisa (25 Oct 1782 – 03 Sep 1869 | New London CT – Galena IL) pioneer, folk figure, aka Aunt Manuel, first white woman to enter upper Missouri Indian territory.

Anna Maria Richardson Harkness (25 Oct 1837 – 27 Mar 1926 | Dalton OH – New York NY) philanthropist, founded Commonwealth Fund, funded Yale University’s Harkness Tower and Memorial Quadrangle.

Helen Augusta Blanchard (25 Oct 1840 – 09 Jan 1922 | Portland ME – Providence RI) businesswoman, sewing machine / sewing technology inventor / innovator, invented zigzag and buttonhole stitches, patent holder for 28 designs.

Maria Remond Lyons (25 Oct 1848 – 28 Jan 1929 | Brooklyn NY – Brooklyn NY) author, feminist, abolitionist, memoirist, civic leader, public educator, biographical essayist, childhood home part of Underground Railroad, first African-American student to graduate from Providence [RI] High School, second black female public school assistant principal, co-founded Women’s Loyal Union and White Rose Mission.

Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (25 Oct 1875 – 23 Dec 1961 | Hoosick Falls NY – Concord MA) children’s author, magazine writer.

22 Oct | Women.Words.Work

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Emily Huntington Miller (22 Oct 1833 – 02 Nov 1913 | Brooklyn CT – Northfield MN) poet, author, educator, hymn writer, laid groundwork for formation of National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union [WCTU].

Abigail Scott Duniway (22 Oct 1834 – 11 Oct 1915 | Groveland IL – Portland OR) writer, suffragist, women’s rights activist, newspaper editor / publisher.

Mary Jane McAfee Atkins (22 Oct 1836 – 13 Oct 1911 | Harrodsburg KY – Colorado Springs CO) heiress, teacher, philanthropist, founded Kansas City Art Museum [now known as Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art].

Annie Louise Cary Raymond (22 Oct 1842 – 03 Apr 1921 | Wayne ME – Norwalk CT) opera / concert singer.

Charlotte Champe Stearns Eliot (22 Oct 1843 – 10 Sep 1929 | Baltimore MD – Cambridge MA) poet, teacher, social worker, mother of T. S. Eliot.

30 Sep | Women.Words.Work

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Lucinda Hinsdale Stone (30 Sep 1814 – 23 Mar 1851 | Hinesburg VT – Kalamazoo MI) educator, feminist, suffragist, abolitionist, aka Mother of Clubs, Ladies Library Association leader, autobiographical author, women’s education program innovator.

Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis (30 Sep 1832 – 09 May 1905 | Culpeper VA – Philadelphia PA) social activist, community organizer, founder of Civil War Mothers’ Day Work Clubs, maternal inspiration for founding Mother’s Day [by daughter Anna Marie Jarvis].

Fannie Ruth Robinson (30 Sep 1847 – 29 Apr 1925 | Carbondale PA – Newark OH) poet, author, educator, academic administrator, president of Oxford Female College [Ohio].

Mary Roger Williams (30 Sep 1857 – 17 Sep 1907 | Hartford CT – Florence IT) American Impressionist, oil / pastel portrait / landscape artist.

Faith Fyles (30 Sep 1875 – 22 Oct 1961 | Cowansville QC – Ottawa ON) author, artist, botanist, seed analyst, director of the Arboretum, first botanical artist with Canadian Horticulture Department.

22 Sep | Women.Words.Work

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Louisa Van Velsor Whitman (22 Sep 1795 – 23 May 1873 | West Hills NY – West Hills NY) Dutch-American, homesteader, literary family member, poet Walt Whitman’s mother.

Charlotte Sophia Sewall Eastman (22 Sep 1816 – 25 May 1896 | Hallowell ME – York ME) artist, portrait painter.

Jane Manning James (22 Sep 1822 – 16 Apr 1908 | Wilton CT – Salt Lake City UT) early LDS member, aka Aunt Jane, first black female Mormon pioneer in Utah Territory.

Mary Clement Leavitt (22 Sep 1830 – 05 Feb 1912 | Hopkinton NH – Boston MA) educator, suffragist, social reformer, girl’s school founder, women / children’s rights activist, international temperance leader / lecturer / founder.

Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (22 Sep 1872 – 04 Jun 1958 | Cambridge MA – Portsmouth NH) author, magazine writer, aka Mrs. Fordyce Coburn.

15 Sep | Women.Words.Work

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Adeline Dutton Train Whitney (15 Sep 1824 – 21 Mar 1906 | Boston MA – Milton MA) poet, children’s author, Christian Scientist, pen name: A. D. T. Whitney.

Sarah Knowles Bolton (15 Sep 1841 – 21 Feb 1916 | Farmington CT – Cleveland OH) poet, writer, biographer, children’s author.

Mary French Swarthout (15 Sep 1844 – unknown | Sangerfield NY – Chicago IL) educator, maths textbooks author, Authors’ Club member, vice-president of Illinois Women’s Press Club.

Anna Winlock (15 Sep 1857 – 20 Dec 1904 | Cambridge MA – Boston MA) computer, astronomer, one of the women referred to as ‘The Harvard Computers’ [drawing by Sara Netherway for Cosmos Magazine].

Mary-Cooke Branch Munford (15 Sep 1865 – 03 Jul 1938 | Richmond VA – Richmond VA) educator, suffragist, civil rights activist, labor / health / education reformer.

11 Sep | Women.Words.Work

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Sarah [Sally] Franklin Bache (11 Sep 1743 – 05 Oct 1808 | Philadelphia Province – Philadelphia PA) women’s pro-independence activist, political hostess for father Benjamin Franklin, American Revolutionary War relief work leader.

Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie (11 Sep 1806 – 15 Sep 1870 | Middletown CT – Amagansett NY) author, memoirist, Middle Western pioneer and historian.

Elizabeth Kekaʻaniau Pratt (11 Sep 1834 – 20 Dec 1928 | Waialua HI – Honolulu HI) author, biographer, High Chiefess, full name Elizabeth Kekaʻaniauokalani Kalaninuiohilaukapu Kekaikuihala Laʻanui Pratt.

Mary Anna Palmer Draper (11 Sep 1839 – 08 Dec 1914 | Stonington CT – New York NY) art collector, philanthropist, astronomical photographer, co-founded Mount Wilson Observatory.

Mary Watson Whitney (11 Sep 1847 – 20 Jan 1921 | Waltham MA – Waltham MA) author, essayist, astronomer, head of Vassar Observatory.

02 Sep | Women.Words.Work

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Lucretia Peabody Hale (02 Sep 1820 – 12 Jun 1900 | Boston MA – Belmont MA) editor, novelist, journalist, nonfiction author.

Anne Whitney (02 Sep 1821 – 23 Jan 1915 | Watertown MA – Boston MA) poet, sculptor.

Lili’uokalani (02 Sep 1838 – 11 Nov 1917 | Honolulu HI – Honolulu HI) author, songwriter, queen regnant, last ruling Hawaiian monarch.

Emma Gilson Wallace (02 Sep 1841 – 07 Jun 1911 | La Moille IL – Chicago IL) philanthropist, reform / charitable activist, president of both National and Illinois Women’s Relief Corps.

Josephine Emma Curtis Hopkins (02 Sep 1849 – 08 Apr 1925 | Killingly CT – Killingly CT) author, mystic, feminist, teacher, theologian, spiritual prophet, New Thought leader / organizer.