22 Mar | Women.Words.Work

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Maria Claypoole Peale (22 Mar 1787 – 27 Mar 1866 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) still-life / miniature portrait painter.

Calista Robinson Jones (22 Mar 1839 – 28 Jan 1913 | Chelsea VT – Bradford VT) educator, civic / social activist, president of Woman’s Relief Corps, founding chair / fundraiser for Woods Public Library Book Committee in Bradford.

Laura Jean Libbey (22 Mar 1862 – 25 Oct 1924 | Brooklyn NY – Brooklyn NY) prolific ‘dime’ romance novelist.

Elsie Hart Wilcox (22 Mar 1879 – 30 Jun 1954 | Hanalei HI – Kauai HI) community activist, Grove Farm Homestead preservationist, first woman to serve in Territory of Hawaii Senate.

Jessie Ethel Sampter (22 Mar 1883 – 25 Nov 1938 | New York NY – Givat Brenner IS) poet, educator, lesbian, Zionist pioneer, contracted polio at age 12.

17 Mar | Women.Words.Work

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Queen Kaʻahumanu (17 Mar 1768 – 05 Jun 1832 | Maui HI – Mānoa Valley HI) aka The Feathered Mantle, Kingdom of Hawai’i regent / queen consort.

Elizabeth [Eliza] Kirby Withington (17 Mar 1825 – 04 Mar 1877 | New York NY – Ione CA) portrait and landscape photographer.

Emily Sartain (17 Mar 1841 – 17 Jun 1927 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) engraver, portrait painter, mezzo-tint artist.

Cornelia Maria Clapp (17 Mar 1849 – 31 Dec 1934 | Montague MA – Mount Dora FL) author, academic, zoologist, Marine biologist, earned both first and second American PhD degrees awarded to a woman.

E. Alice Munn Austen (17 Mar 1866 – 09 Jun 1952 | Staten Island NY – Staten Island NY) photographer, landscape artist, master tennis player, first Staten Island woman to own a car.

02 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Queen Emma Kalanikaumakaʻamano Kaleleonālani Naʻea Rooke of Hawaiʻi (02 Jan 1836 – 25 Apr 1885 | Honolulu or Kawaihae, Sandwich Islands – Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) Queen monarch, social activist, hospital founder, advocated Hawaii’s independence.

Alice Mary Robertson (02 Jan 1854 – 01 Jul 1931 | Tullahassee Mission, Creek Nation – Muskogee OK) politician, educator, social worker, anti-feminist, Native American rights advocate.

Martha [Minnie] Carey Thomas (02 Jan 1857 – 02 Dec 1935 | Baltimore MD – Philadelphia PA) linguist, suffragist, Bryn Mawr founder / president, first female Johns Hopkins’ student / honorary graduate.

Anne Sewell Young (02 Jan 1877 – 15 Aug 1961 | Bloomington WI – Claremont CA) author, astronomer, astronomy professor, variable star observer.

Mary Hamilton Swindler (02 Jan 1884 – 16 Jan 1967 | Bloomington IN – Haverford PA) author, archaeologist, art historian, classical art scholar, first female Editor-in-Chief American Journal of Archaeology.

31 Dec | Women.Words.Work

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Lucretia Crocker (31 Dec 1829 – 09 Oct 1886 | Barnstable MA – Boston MA) author, educator, first female superintendent Boston Public Schools, educational activist / advocate / innovator.

Queen Kapi’olani Napelakapuokakaʻe (31 Dec 1834 – 24 Jun 1899 | Hilo HI – Waikiki HI) Queen Consort of the Kingdom of Hawai’i, medical / educational philanthropist, founded Kapi’olani Maternity Home and Kapi’olani Home for Girls.

Mary Jane Safford-Blake (31 Dec 1834 – 08 Dec 1891 | Hyde Park VT – Tarpon Springs FL) author, teacher, novelist, translator, Civil War Union field nurse. 

Elizabeth Arden (31 Dec 1878 – 18 Oct 1966 | Woodbridge ON – New York NY) Canadian-American author, social icon, beauty products innovator, cosmetics businesswoman, born Florence Nightingale Graham.

29 Dec | Women.Words.Work

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Margaret McDonald Bottome (29 Dec 1827 – 14 Nov 1906 | New York NY – New York NY) author, magazine columnist, religious organizer, founded Christian spiritual development / service organization Order of the King’s Daughters.

Lillian Heath Nelson (29 Dec 1865 – 05 Aug 1962 | Burnett Junction WI – Rawlins WY) memoirist, first female doctor in Wyoming, one of first female medical practitioners west of the Mississippi River.

Annie Montague Alexander (29 Dec 1867 – 10 Dec 1950 | Honolulu HI – Oakland CA) explorer, paleontologist, philanthropist, museum founder, fossil hunter / collector.

Love Rosa Hirschmann Gantt (29 Dec 1875 – 16 Nov 1935 | Camden SC – Philadelphia PA) physician, public health worker, eye-ear-nose-and-throat specialist.

05 Dec | Women.Words.Work

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Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (05 Dec 1822 – 27 Jun 1907 | Boston MA – Arlington MA) author, educator, Radcliffe College co-founder / first president, natural history researcher.

Jane Loeau (05 Dec 1828 – 30 Jul 1873 | Waimea HI – Puunui HI) Chiefess of Kingdom of Hawaii, controversial royal Hawaiian family member.

Susan Hale (05 Dec 1833 – 17 Sep 1910 | Boston MA – Matunuck RI) artist, author, educator, world traveler, literary / Unitarian family member.

Alice Brown (05 Dec 1857 – 21 Jun 1948 | Hampton Falls NH – Boston MA) poet, novelist, biographer, playwright.

Maria Louise Anna Beaudet (05 Dec 1859 – 31 Dec 1947 | Tours FR – New York NY) opera singer, French Canadian, stage / silent film actress, opera touring company founder.

17 Oct | Women.Words.Work

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Anne Parrish (17 Oct 1761 – 26 Dec 1800 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) Quaker, educator, philanthropist, school founder, girls’ and women’s rights activist.

Ellen Palmer Allerton (17 Oct 1835 – 31 Aug 1893 | Centerville NY – Padonia KS) poet.

Laura Read Wilder Wight (17 Oct 1861 – 13 Nov 1954 | Honolulu HI – Honolulu HI) heiress, family member of Hawaiian railway magnate.

Sophia Hayden Bennett (17 Oct 1868 – 03 Feb 1953 | Santiago CL – Winthrop MA) architect, first female MIT graduate in architecture, designed Woman’s Building at World’s Columbia Exposition 1892.

Clara Longworth de Chambrun (17 Oct 1873 – 31 May 1954 | Cincinnati OH – Paris FR) author, novelist, biographer, Shakespeare scholar, patron of the arts, founding member of The American Library in Paris.

16 Oct | Women.Words.Work

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Isabelle Walton Lusk (16 Oct 1835 – 22 Jan 1933 | Old Town ME – Sacramento CA) memoirist, travel author, national traveler.

Lilian Leland Andrews (16 Oct 1857 – c. 1930 | New York NY – unknown) author, Freethinker, world traveler, travel writer, Liberal League lecturer.

Victoria Kaʻiulani Cleghorn (16 Oct 1875 – 06 Mar 1899 | Honolulu HI – Honolulu HI) artist, princess, cultural ambassador, aka Victoria Kaʻiulani Kalaninuiahilapalapa Cleghorn.

Anna Elizabeth Keener (16 Oct 1895 – 22 Jul 1982 | Flagler CO – Santa Fe NM) artist, painter, author, WWI Navy yeoman.

Marguerite Luella Rawalt (16 Oct 1895 – 16 Dec 1989 | Prairie City IL – Corpus Christi TX) author, attorney, feminist, women’s rights activist.

28 Sep | Women.Words.Work

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Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor (28 Sep 1821 – 21 Apr 1906 | Kailua-Kona HI – Honolulu HI) painter, sketch artist

Caroline Earle White (28 Sep 1833 – 07 Sep 1916 | Philadelphia PA – Nantucket MA) author, suffragist, travel writer, short fiction writer, animal rights activist, founded Women’s Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals [WPSPCA]

Frances Elizabeth Willard (28 Sep 1839 – 17 Feb 1898 | Churchville NY – New York NY) author, orator, pacifist, educator, suffragist, feminist, visionary, temperance reform leader

Kate Douglas Wiggin (28 Sep 1856 – 24 Aug 1923 | Philadelphia PA – Harrow UK) children’s author, children’s educational advocate, kindergarten founder / teacher trainer

Sister Mary Joseph (28 Sep 1883 – 05 Jun 1967 | Peoria IL – Webster Groves MO) nun, academic, librarian, born Sherer, founder / director Gallery of Living Catholic Authors at Webster College [now Webster University] in Webster Goves MO

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.