03 Nov | Women.Words.Work

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Martha Laurens Ramsay (03 Nov 1759 – 10 Jun 1811 | Charleston SC – Charleston SC) diarist, geneaologist, letter correspondent, private memoirs published by husband six weeks after her death.

Isabella Macdonald Alden (03 Nov 1841 – 05 Aug 1930 | Rochester NY – Palo Alto CA) author, editor, diarist, aka The Pansy, short story writer, adult education activist.

Mary Hannah Krout (03 Nov 1851 – 27 May 1927 | Crawfordsville IN – Crawfordsville IN) editor, author, journalist, suffragist, international lecturer.

Rosalie Barrow Edge (03 Nov 1877 – 30 Nov 1962 | New York NY – Kempton PA) birder, socialite, suffragist, national parks proponent, avian preservationist, founded Hawk Mountain and Emergency Conservation Committee.

Grace Hubbard Bell Fortescue (03 Nov 1883 – 24 Jun 1979 | Washington DC – Arlington VA) socialite, convicted of kidnapping-murdering an innocent man for allegedly raping her daughter.

15 Oct | Women.Words.Work

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Elizabeth Van Lew (15 Oct 1818 – 25 Sep 1900 | Richmond VA – Richmond VA) diarist, memoirist, aka Crazy Bet, Civil War Union spy / ring leader, post-War postmistress.

Helen Hunt Fiske Jackson (15 Oct 1830 – 12 Aug 1885 | Amherst MA – San Francisco CA) poet, novelist, historian, pen name: H.H., Native American rights activist.

Fannie Jackson Coppin (15 Oct 1837 – 21 Jan 1913 | Washington DC – Philadelphia PA) educator, missionary, African-American, Bethel Institute co-founder.

Florence Adelaide Fowle Adams (15 Oct 1863 – 31 Jul 1916 | Chelsea MA – Pierce WA) orator, author, gesture / pantomime researcher, educator at Boston School of Oratory, focus on Delsarte method of dramatic expression, founded Boston Ideal Tableaux Company for young women staging tableaux vivants.

Edith Bolling Galt Wilson (15 Oct 1872 – 28 Dec 1961 | Wytheville VA – Washington DC) First Lady, memoirist, unofficial acting US President.

29 May | Women.Words.Work

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Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle (29 May 1845 – 05 Dec 1921 | Pawley’s Island SC – Charleston SC) author, diarist, publisher, rice farmer, slave holder, aka Patience Pennington.

Susan Elizabeth Frazier (29 May 1864 – 03 Feb 1924 | New York NY – New York NY) activist, African-American, public school educator, women’s issues / civil rights thought leader, president WWI Women’s Auxiliary of Old Fifteenth National Guard black troop.

Elizabeth Cutter Morrow (29 May 1873 – 24 Jan 1955 | Cleveland OH – Englewood NJ) poet, children’s book writer, first female Head of Smith College, grandmother of kidnapped baby Charles Lindbergh Jr.

Leila Mechlin (29 May 1874 – 04 May 1949 | Washington DC – Washington DC) author, art critic, manager, editor of The American Magazine of Art.

Helen Woodard Atwater (29 May 1876 – 26 Jun 1947 | Somerville MA – Washington DC) editor, author, home economics specialist, full-time editor of the Journal of Home Economics, aka The First Lady of American Nutrition.

24 May | Women.Words.Work

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Ynés Mexia (24 May 1870 – 12 Jul 1938 | Washington DC – Berkeley CA) artist, botanist, essayist, lecturer, photographer, independent scholar.

Lillian Evelyn Moller Gilbreth (24 May 1878 – 02 Jan 1972 | Oakland CA – Phoenix AZ) author, engineer, biographer, memoirist, psychologist, inventor / innovator.

Elsa Maxwell (24 May 1883 – 01 Nov 1963 | Keokuk IA – New York NY) author, columnist, songwriter, scriptwriter, professional hostess, treasure hunt / scavenger hunt innovator.

Mary Madeleva Evaline Wolff (24 May 1887 – 25 Jul 1964 | Cumberland WI – Boston MA) poet, abbess, medieval scholar, non-fiction author, aka Lady Abbess of Nun Poets.

Lois Fitzhugh Foster Blount (24 May 1896 – 02 Sep 1980 | Huntsville TX – Nacogdoches TX) teacher, historian, librarian, museum curator.