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.

01 Sep | Women.Words.Work

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Lydia Huntley Sigourney (01 Sep 1791 – 10 Jun 1865 | Norwich CT – Hartford CT) poet, critic, children’s writer, girls’ school founder, autobiographical author, aka The Sweet Singer of Hartford.

Mary Grew (01 Sep 1813 – 10 Oct 1896 | Hartford CT – Philadelphia PA) preacher, feminist, abolitionist, social activist, public speaker.

Emma Stebbins (01 Sep 1815 – 25 Oct 1882 | New York NY – New York NY) sculptor.

Elizabeth Harrison (01 Sep 1845 – 31 Oct 1927 | Athens KY – San Antonio TX) educator, non-fiction author, autobiographical author, founding president National Louis University, early childhood / teacher training pioneer, founding member of International Kindegarten Movement, sponsored first Mothers’ Convention [later became National Parent Teachers Association].

Anna Botsford Comstock (01 Sep 1854 – 24 Aug 1930 | Otto NY – Ithaca NY) writer, educator, illustrator, conservationist, nature study movement leader.

16 Aug | Women.Words.Work

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Sarah Porter (16 Aug 1813 – 18 Feb 1900 | Farmington CT – Farmington CT) educator, women’s suffrage opponent, promoter of legal reforms for women, founder of elite private Miss Porter’s School for girls.

Helen Mary Knowlton (16 Aug 1832 – 05 May 1918 | Littleton MA – Needham MA) artist, author, spiritual writer, art instructor.

Mary Hall (16 Aug 1843 – 15 Nov 1927 | Marlborough CT – Marlborough CT) poet, suffragist, philanthropist, mathematics teacher, first CT Notary, first female lawyer admitted to Connecticut Bar, founded boys’ charity Good Will Club [became Boys’ Club USA].

Helen Hartley Jenkins (16 Aug 1860 – 24 Apr 1934 | New York NY – Morristown NJ) heiress, philanthropist, funded Barnard College and Columbia University, president of Hartley House board, tenement reform activist, settlement house builder.

Jeannette Augustus Marks (16 Aug 1875 – 15 Mar 1964 | Chattanooga TN – Westport NY) author, lecturer, educator, feminist.

13 Aug | Women.Words.Work

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Lucy Blackwell Stone (13 Aug 1818 – 19 Oct 1893 | West Brookfield MA – Boston MA) writer, orator, suffragist, publisher, abolitionist, magazine founder / editor, women’s rights activist / organizer.

Martha Joanna Reade Nash Lamb (13 Aug 1829 – 02 Jan 1893 | Plainfield MA – New York NY) editor, author, historian, child welfare activist, Secretary of US Sanitary Commission, owner / editor-in-chief Magazine of American History.

Leonora Kearney Barry (13 Aug 1849 – 18 Jul 1923 | County Cork IE – Minooka IL) women’s labor rights activist / organizer, sole female Knights of Labor national office holder, aka Mother Lake and America’s First Woman Labor Activist.

Mary Ellen [Ella] Quinlan O’Neill (13 Aug 1857 – 28 Feb 1922 | New Haven CT – Los Angeles CA) pianist, literary figure / inspiration, mother of playwright Eugene O’Neill.

Annie Oakley (13 Aug 1860 – 03 Nov 1926 | near Woodland OH – Greenville OH) folk figure, philanthropist, aka Little Sure Shot, exhibition sharpshooter, born Phoebe Ann Moses, autobiographical writer.

11 Aug | Women.Words.Work

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Eliza Hart Spalding (11 Aug 1807 – 13 Jan 1851 | Kensington CT – Brownsville OR) diarist, pioneer, missionary to Nez Perce, mother of Eliza Spalding Warren.

Octavia Walton Le Vert (11 Aug 1811 – 12 Mar 1877 | Augusta GA – Augusta GA) author, socialite, social activist, memoirist, travel writer.

Oriana [Orie] Russell Moon Andrews (11 Aug 1834 – 26 Dec 1883 | Viewmont VA – Scottsville VA) aka Dr. Orie Moon, Civil War Confederate doctor, Bedouin missionary physician.

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (11 Aug 1836 – 22 Dec 1919 | Lexington KY – Caldwell NJ) poet.

Carrie Minetta Jacobs-Bond (11 Aug 1862 – 28 Dec 1946 | Janesville WI – Hollywood CA) poet, pianist, singer-songwriter, first US female music publisher, autobiographical author, first woman to sell one million copies of a song.

06 Aug | Women.Words.Work

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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 | Women.Words.Work

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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 | Women.Words.Work

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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 | Women.Words.Work

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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 | Women.Words.Work

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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.