28 Sep | Women.Words.Work

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

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.

05 Sep | Women.Words.Work

Hannah Chaplin Conant (05 Sep 1809 – 18 Feb 1865 | Danvers MA – Brooklyn NY) editor, translator, Biblical scholar.


Anna Rice Cooke (05 Sep 1853 – 08 Aug 1934 | Oahu HI – Honolulu HI) art collector, patron of arts, founded Honolulu Museum of Art.


Emilie Baker Loring (05 Sep 1866 – 13 Mar 1951 | Boston MA – Wellesley MA) prolific romance novelist.


Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (05 Sep 1867 – 27 Dec 1944 | Henniker NH – New York NY) pianist, composer, first successful large-scale artistic female music composer.


Frances Daisy Emery Allen (05 Sep 1876 – 07 Dec 1958 | Kaufman County TX – Fort Worth TX) pioneering female physician, first female medical school graduate in Texas, one of first female physicians to practice in Tarrant County.

02 Sep | Women.Words.Work

Lucretia Peabody Hale (02 Sep 1820 – 12 Jun 1900 | Boston MA – Belmont MA) editor, novelist, journalist, nonfiction author.


Anne Whitney (02 Sep 1821 – 23 Jan 1915 | Watertown MA – Boston MA) poet, sculptor.


Lili’uokalani (02 Sep 1838 – 11 Nov 1917 | Honolulu HI – Honolulu HI) author, songwriter, queen regnant, last ruling Hawaiian monarch.


Emma Gilson Wallace (02 Sep 1841 – 07 Jun 1911 | La Moille IL – Chicago IL) philanthropist, reform / charitable activist, president of both National and Illinois Women’s Relief Corps.


Josephine Emma Curtis Hopkins (02 Sep 1849 – 08 Apr 1925 | Killingly CT – Killingly CT) author, mystic, feminist, teacher, theologian, spiritual prophet, New Thought leader / organizer.