05 Sep | Women.Words.Work

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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

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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.