23 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Charlotte Saunders Cushman (23 Jul 1816 – 18 Feb 1876 | Boston MA – Boston MA) stage actress, operatic contralto singer, played male and female parts, namesake for Charlotte Cushman Club (1907), became Charlotte Cushman Foundation (2000).

Mary Prudence Wells Smith (23 Jul 1840 – 17 Dec 1930 | Attica NY – Greenfield MA) feminist, children’s author, local historian, women’s rights activist, women’s history advocate.

Harriet Williams Russell Strong (23 Jul 1844 – 06 Sep 1926 | Buffalo NY – Whittier CA) suffragist, agriculturist, conservationist, philanthropist, women’s rights activist, dam and reservoir series inventor / innovator.

Sophia Cook Amos Zimmerman (23 Jul 1856 – 23 Nov 1930 | Syracuse NY – Syracuse NY) missionary, philanthropist, religious / educational patron, president of Woman’s Missionary Society of First English Lutheran Church.

Barbara Deming (23 Jul 1917 – 02 Aug 1984 | New York NY – Sugarloaf Key FL) poet, author, feminist, advocate of non-violent social change.

04 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Hanchett Hunt (04 Jun 1830 – 24 Apr 1906 | South Canaan CT – Dorchester MA) Women’s Christian Temperance Union [WCTU] leader / author / lecturer.

Delity Powell Kelly (04 Jun 1851 – 31 Oct 1939 | Apalachicola FL – Pensacola FL) Confederate nurse, Civil War prisoner, first female military pensioner Florida State.

Catharine Waugh McCulloch (04 Jun 1862 – 20 Apr 1945 | Ransomville NY – Evanston IL) author, lawyer, suffragist, first woman elected to US judicial office.

Nora Waln (04 Jun 1895 – 27 Sep 1964 | Grampian Hills PA – Malaga ES) author, novelist, memoirist, magazine writer, war correspondent.

Julia Caroline Butler Hansen (04 Jun 1907 – 03 May 1988 | Portland OR – Cathlamet WA) State representative, children’s book author, second woman / first Democratic woman elected to Congress from Washington State.

18 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Edwards Bryan (18 May 1846 – 15 Jun 1913 | Lloyd FL – Clarkston GA) poet, author, essayist, journalist.

Gertrude Käsebier (18 May 1852 – 13 Oct 1934 | Des Moines IA – New York NY) women’s photography advocate, pioneering artistic / portrait / pictorial / photographer.

Elisabeth Luther Cary (18 May 1867 – 13 Jul 1936 | Brooklyn NY – Brooklyn NY) art critic, biographer, translator.

Rachelle Slobodinsky Yarros (18 May 1869 – 17 Mar 1946 | Kiev RU – Chicago IL) author, physician, reformer, women’s rights activist, first woman admitted to College of Physicians and Surgeons in Boston.

17 Apr | Herstorical.Reflections

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Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper (17 Apr 1813 – 31 Dec 1894 | Scarsdale NY – Cooperstown NY) novelist, naturalist, orphanage founder / facilitator.

Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy (17 Apr 1837 – 13 Apr 1900 | Quincy FL – Mobile AL) poet, pen name Kamba Thorpe.

Isabel Chapin Barrows (17 Apr 1845 – 25 Oct 1913 | Irasburg VT – Croton-on-Hudson NY) editor, activist, novelist, essayist, lecturer, missionary, political activist, hydrotherapist.

Anna Garlin Spencer (17 Apr 1851 – 12 Feb 1931 | Attleboro MA – New York NY) author, educator, feminist, Unitarian minister, peace activist / leader.

Helen Everett Peabody Grant (17 Apr 1861 – 06 May 1910 | Keytesville Landing MO – Beausoleil FR) artist, painter.

29 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Ann Lee (29 Feb 1736 – 08 Sep 1784 | Manchester UK – Watervliet NY) aka Mother Ann Lee, Ann Elizabeth Lees, leader of the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, or Shakers.

Emmeline Blanche Woodward Harris Whitney Wells (29 Feb 1828 – 25 Apr 1921 | Petersham MA – Salt Lake City UT) poet, editor, diarist, journalist, women’s rights activist, fifth Relief Society General President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints [LDS Church].

Augusta Savage (29 Feb 1892 – 27 Mar 1962 | Green Cove Springs FL – New York NY) African-American sculptor, associated with Harlem Renaissance, born Augusta Christine Fells.

18 Jan | Herstorical.Reflections

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Virginia Penny (18 Jan 1826 – 04 Apr 1913 | Louisville KY – Wards Island NY) author, economist, suffragist, social reformer, owned employment agency for women, first to study women’s labor markets.

Sarah Blakeslee Chase (18 Jan 1837 – 01 Apr 1914 | New Richmond OH – Toledo OH) birth control activist, homeopathic gynecologist, first female admitted to Medical Society of Cleveland and Homœopathic Association of Ohio.

Alice H. Putnam (18 Jan 1841 – 19 Jan 1919 | Chicago IL – Chicago IL) author, educator, pioneer in Chicago kindergarten education, opened and directed first private kindergarten in Chicago.

Emma Bertha Delany (18 Jan 1871 – 07 Oct 1922 | Fernandina Beach FL – Fernandina Beach FL) African-American missionary fundraiser, first Baptist missionary to Malawai and Liberia in Africa, co-founded Providence Industrial Mission [Malawi] and Suehn Industrial Mission [Liberia].

Irene Osgood Andrews (18 Jan 1879 – 01 Feb 1963 | Big Rapids MI – New York NY) writer, author, relief worker, factory inspector, focus on challenges facing women in American industries.