25 Apr | Women’s Words & Works

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Abigail Brown Brooks Adams (25 Apr 1808 – 06 Jun 1889 | Medford MA – Quincy MA) outspoken political critic, member Boston Brahmin / political family.

Eliza Daniel Stewart (25 Apr 1816 – 06 Aug 1908 | Piketon OH – Springfield OH) aka Mother Stewart, state / local pioneering temperance leader / organizer.

Lucy Goodale Thurston (25 Apr 1823 – 24 Feb 1841 | Kailua HI – Boston MA) member of well-known missionary family, sister of artist Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor.

Mary Torrans Lathrap (25 Apr 1838 – 03 Jan 1895 | Jackson MI – Jackson MI) poet, preacher, suffragist, pen name Lena, temperance reformer, women’s progressive activist, aka The Daniel Webster of Prohibition.

Constance Cary Harrison (25 Apr 1843 – 21 Nov 1920 | Vaucluse VA – Washington DC) aka Refugitta, fiction / nonfiction author, co-creator and seamstress for first US Civil War Confederate Battle Flag.

12 Apr | Women’s Words & Works

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Mollie Evelyn Moore [M. E. M.] Davis (12 Apr 1844 – 01 Jan 1909 | Talladega AL – New Orleans LA) poet, editor, author, salon hostess.

Ella Gaunt Smith (12 Apr 1868 – 02 Apr 1932 | Roanoke AL – Roanoke AL) doll designer / manufacturer.

Imogen Cunningham (12 Apr 1883 – 24 Jun 1976 | Portland OR – San Francisco CA) author, mentor, photographer.

Ethel Moseley Damon (12 Apr 1883 – 01 Apr 1965 | Honolulu HI – Kauai HI) author, teacher, essayist, historian, playwright, pamphleteer, Decorated WW I Red Cross nurse.

Eleanor [Leonia] Touroff Glueck (12 Apr 1898 – 25 Sep 1972 | Brooklyn NY – Cambridge MA) author, criminologist, juvenile delinquency specialist expert.

22 Mar | Women’s Words & Works

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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’s Words & Works

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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.