11 Dec | Herstorical.Reflections

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Leonora Sansay (11 Dec 1773 – 12 Nov 1821 | Philadelphia PA – Newent UK) novelist, painter, memoirist, political / literary figure, aka Mary Hassal, née Honora Davern, artificial flower-making business owner.

Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier (11 Dec 1813 – 26 Apr 1888 | Plainfield NJ – New York NY) feminist, suffragist, physician, founded / directed New York Medical College and Hospital for Women, president of New York City Suffrage League and National Women’s Suffrage Association.

Mary Belle King Sherman (11 Dec 1862 – 15 Jan 1935 | Albion NY – Denver CO) author, club woman, national park activist, aka The National Park Lady.

Annie Jump Cannon (11 Dec 1863 – 13 Apr 1941 | Dover DE – Cambridge MA) author, astronomer, pioneer cataloguer / developer of contemporary stellar classification.

Louise Brown Leslie (11 Dec 1869 – 07 Oct 1948 | Perry ME – Detroit MI) editor, journalist, women’s advice columnist, pen name: Nancy Brown, aka Dear Nancy.

23 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Katharine Coman (23 Nov 1857 – 11 Jan 1915 | Newark OH – Wellesley MA) author, professor, economist, social activist.

Katharine Pyle (23 Nov 1863 – 19 Feb 1938 | Wilmington DE – Wilmington DE) poet, artist, illustrator, children’s author.

Marie Louise Van Vorst (23 Nov 1867 – 16 Dec 1936 | New York NY – Florence IT) poet, author, painter, novelist, WWI nurse, anti-war activist.

Mary Brewster Hazelton (23 Nov 1868 – 13 Sep 1953 | Milton MA – Wellesley MA) artist, portrait painter, instructor at School of Boston Museum of Fine Arts, first female artist to win US arts award open to both men and women.

09 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Ann Shadd Cary (09 Oct 1823 – 05 Jul 1893 | Wilmington DE – Washington DC) lawyer, teacher, publisher, journalist, African-American, anti-slavery / Underground Railroad activist, first black woman publisher in Canada and North America.

Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (09 Oct 1830 – 21 Feb 1908 | Watertown MA – Watertown MA) neo-classical sculptor.

Elizabeth Chase Akers Allen (09 Oct 1832 – 07 Aug 1911 | Strong ME – Tuckahoe NY) poet, author, journalist, pen names: Florence Percy and Elizabeth Akers.

Caroline [Carrie] Olivia Mayhew Speake (09 Oct 1834 – 20 Mar 1906 | Alabama US – Alabama US) poet, artist, musician [note: allegorical image created as no images of this woman or her works were located.

Elaine Goodale Eastman (09 Oct 1863 – 22 Dec 1953 | Mount Washington MA – Hadley MA) poet, author, novelist, educator, Native American Sioux advocate, aka The Sister of the Sioux.

19 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Rosetta Sherwood Hall (19 Sep 1865 – 05 Apr 1951 | Liberty NY – Ocean Grove NJ) author, doctor, educator, missionary, mission school founder.

Nellie Augusta Knopf (19 Sep 1875 – 30 Apr 1962 | Chicago IL – Lansing MI) artist, landscape / still life painter.

Vera Charlotte Scott Cushman (19 Sep 1876 – 01 Feb 1946 | Ottawa IL – Savannah GA) social worker, YWCA pioneer, prolific fundraiser, WWI soldier support activist.

Mabel Vernon (19 Sep 1883 – 02 Sep 1975 | Wilmington DE – Washington DC) Quaker, pacifist, suffragist leader, member of American Woman Suffrage Association.

Sarah Louise [Sadie] Delany (19 Sep 1889 – 25 Jan 1999 | Lynch Station VA – Mount Vernon NY) author, teacher, memoirist.

07 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis (07 Aug 1813 – 24 Aug 1876 | Bloomfield NY – Providence RI) educator, suffragist, publisher, abolitionist, founding member of New England Woman Suffrage Association.

Alice James (07 Aug 1848 – 06 Mar 1892 | New York NY – London UK) editor, diarist, history teacher, literary figure, letter correspondent.

Ellen Fitz Pendleton (07 Aug 1864 – 26 Jul 1936 | Westerly RI – Newton MA) mathematics professor, long-term president of Wellesley College, academic freedom advocate, first woman on panel to award American Peace Prize.

Florence Margaret Martus (07 Aug 1868 – 08 Feb 1943 | Chatham GA – Savannah GA) folk figure, lighthouse keeper, aka Savannah’s Waving Girl.

Amelia [Amy] Elizabeth du Pont (07 Aug 1875 – 16 Feb 1962 | Wilmington DE – Montecito CA) heiress, aka Miss Amy, philanthropist, founded Unidel Foundation, funded University of Delaware.

23 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Anne Elizabeth McDowell (23 Jun 1826 – 30 Sep 1901 | Smyrna DE – Drexel Hill PA) editor, journalist, publisher, founded Woman’s Advocate weekly newspaper, founded McDowell Free Library for Women for workers at Wanamaker’s Department Store.

Agnes Dean Abbat (23 Jun 1847 – 01 Jan 1917 | New York NY – New York NY) artist, teacher, watercolorist, floral still life / landscape / coastal scene painter, second women elected to the American Water Color Society.

Louise Howland King Cox (23 Jun 1865 – 11 Dec 1945 | San Francisco CA – Windham CT) woodcarver, photographer, stained glass artist, children’s portrait painter.

Mabel Rivers Landrum Torrey (23 Jun 1886 – 01 Apr 1974 | Sterling CO – Ames IA) sculptor, ceramicist, children’s figure specialist, commissioned public sculptor.

Sarah Van Hoosen Jones (23 Jun 1892 – 1972 | Stony Creek MI – Rochester MI) author, breeder, civic leader, genetic researcher, first US female PhD in Animal Genetics.

31 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Jessie Ann Benton Frémont (31 May 1824 – 27 Dec 1902 | Rockbridge VA – Los Angeles CA) author, memoirist, abolitionist, political activist, short story writer.

Kate Kennedy (31 May 1827 – 18 Mar 1890 | Gaskinstown IE – Oakland CA) essayist, educator, educational reformer, teacher tenure activist / advocate.

Emily Perkins Bissell (31 May 1861 – 08 Mar 1948 | Wilmington DE – Wilmington DE) essayist, health activist, social reformer, Christmas Seals founder.

Cynthia Westover Alden (31 May 1862 – 08 Jan 1931 | Afton IA – Brooklyn NY) poet, author, editor, teacher, journalist, civil servant, philanthropist, pen name: Kate Kensington, invented NYC street-cleaners’ cart, founder / president-general of the International Sunshine Society to house / educate blind babies / children / elderly.

Kathlyn Williams Eyton (31 May 1888 – 23 Sep 1960 | Butte MT – Hollywood CA) actress, screenwriter, social philanthropist. 

16 Apr | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah Ann Major Harris Fayerweather (16 Apr 1812 – 16 Nov 1878 | Norwich CT – Kingston RI) African-American activist, abolitionist, school integrationist.

Martha McClellan Brown (16 Apr 1838 – 31 Aug 1916 | Baltimore MD – Dayton OH) newspaper publisher, temperance activist, women’s college vice-president, Ohio Temperance leader.

Ida Elizabeth Smith Noyes (16 Apr 1853 – 05 Dec 1912 | Croton DE – Chicago IL) poet, speaker, club woman, member of Daughters of the American Revolution.

Mary Ellen Britton (16 Apr 1855 – 27 Aug 1925 | Lexington KY – Lexington KY) educator, suffragist, journalist, columnist, civil rights activist, first female African-American physician in Lexington, original member of KY Negro Education Association.

Emily Susan Hartwell (16 Apr 1859 – 02 Oct 1951 | Foochow CN – Oberlin OH) philanthropist, relief worker, orphanage founder, educational missionary, founder / teacher of girls’ school at Ponasang.

Grace Anne Bower anniebower71@gmail.com Hill (16 Apr 1865 – 01 Jan 1947 | Wellsville NY – Swarthmore PA) aka Marcia Macdonald, Christian novelist / short story writer.