08 Feb | Women.Words.Work

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Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson (08 Feb 1825 – 22 Dec 1911 | Boston MA – Malden MA) poet, author, mill girl, bobbin doffer, social activist, suffragist leader.

Cornelia Hancock (08 Feb 1840 – 31 Dec 1927 | Hancock’s Bridge NJ – Atlantic City NJ) author, memoirist, social activist, Civil War Union nurse, educator, school founder.

Katherine [Kate] O’Flaherty Chopin (08 Feb 1850 – 22 Aug 1904 | St Louis MO – St Louis MO) novelist, feminist, short story writer.

Kate Thomson Cory (08 Feb 1861 – 12 Jun 1958 | Waukegan IL – Prescott AZ) painter, photographer, lived in / focused on Hopi villages in Southwest USA.

Maud Slye (08 Feb 1869 – 17 Sep 1954 | Minneapolis MN – Chicago IL) poet, musician, pathologist, cancer researcher, 1923 Nobel Laureate.

05 Feb | Women.Words.Work

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Lucy Wright (05 Feb 1760 – 07 Feb 1821 | Pittsfield MA – Watervliet NY) minister, preacher, aka Mother Lucy, Shaker dance form innovator, pioneering female Shaker leader.

Nancy Hanks Lincoln (05 Feb 1784 – 05 Oct 1818 | Hampshire County VA – Spencer County IN) pioneer, seamstress, American folk figure.

Sarah Goodridge (05 Feb 1788 – 28 Dec 1853 | Templeton MA – Boston MA) miniature portrait painter.

Katharine Caroline Bushnell (05 Feb 1856 – 25 Jan 1946 | Peru IL – Piedmont CA) author, scholar, feminist theologian, women’s religious rights activist, American Methodist missionary, member of WCTU [Women’s Christian Temperance Union], authored Bible re-translation called God’s Word to Women.

Maxine Elliott (05 Feb 1868 – 05 Mar 1940 | Rockland ME – Cannes FR) born Jessie Dermott, film / stage actress, theater founder / owner / manager.

02 Feb | Women.Words.Work

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Delia Salter Bacon (02 Feb 1811 – 02 Sep 1859 | Tallmadge OH – Hartford CT) poet, playwright, literary scholar, short story writer, Shakespearean theorist / researcher.

Sarah Marshall Boone (02 Feb 1832 – 1904 | near New Burn NC – New Haven CT) inventor, dressmaker, seamstress, patented wooden ironing board.

Sarah Ann Hackett Stevenson (02 Feb 1841 – 14 Aug 1909 | Buffalo Grove IL – Chicago IL) author, educator, physician, humanitarian, first female American Medical Association member, co-founded Illinois Training School for Nurses.

Effie Brooks [Theodate] Pope Riddle (02 Feb 1867 – 30 Aug 1946 | Salem OH – Farmington CT) one of first registered US female architects, survivor of the sinking of RMS Lusitania, founded / designed Avon Old Farms School, member of American Society for Psychical Research.

Anne Bauchens (02 Feb 1882 – 07 May 1967 | St Louis MO – Woodland Hills CA) film editor, Academy Award for Film Editing, first woman to win an Oscar for film editing.

18 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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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.

15 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Abigail [Abby] Kelley Foster (15 Jan 1811 – 14 Jan 1887 | Pelham MA – Worcester MA) suffragist, speaker, abolitionist, women’s rights activist, radical social reformer.

Constance Faunt Le Roy Runcie (15 Jan 1836 – 17 May 1911 | Indianapolis IN – Winnetka MO) poet, artist, author, pianist, composer, short story writer.

Katharine Bement Davis (15 Jan 1860 – 10 Dec 1935 | Buffalo NY – Pacific Grove CA) author, criminologist, progressive era social reformer, first female NYC Correction Commissioner, science-based prison reformer, groundbreaking female sexuality researcher, first US female PhD in economics and political science.

Loïe Fuller (15 Jan 1862 – 01 Jan 1928 | Fullersburg IL – Paris FR) dancer, memoirist, choreographer, free dance practitioner, stage lighting artist / inventor / patent holder.

Frances Benjamin Johnston (15 Jan 1864 – 16 May 1952 | Grafton WV – New Orleans LA) pioneering photographer, early female photojournalist.

04 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Helen Kendrick Johnson (04 Jan 1844 – 03 Jan 1917 | Hamilton NY – Rochester NY) poet, activist, travel writer, children’s author.

Esther B. Singleton (04 Jan 1865 – 02 Jul 1930 | Baltimore MD – Stonington CT) prolific author, journalist, Shakespeare researcher.

Frances Hammell Gearhart (04 Jan 1869 – 04 Apr 1959 | Sagetown IL – Pasadena CA) teacher, landscape artist, watercolorist, lino / woodcut printmaker, pioneer American fine art color printmaker.

Selena Sloan Butler (04 Jan 1872 – 09 Oct 1964 | Thomasville GA – Los Angeles CA) African-American, organized first black women’s Red Cross chapter, founder / first president National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers Association [NCCPT].

Allie Mae Carpenter (04 Jan 1887 – 02 Jul 1978 | Prairie Home MO – Denver CO) artist, etcher, oil painter, pastellist, printmaker, tapestry artist, watercolorist, china painter, art educator, aka A.M. Carpenter, interior designer / decorator.

27 Dec | Women’s Words & Works

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Fannie Ogden Ide (27 Dec 1853 – 02 Jul 1927 | Brooklyn NY – Brooklyn NY) children’s author, penname: Ruth Ogden.

Florence Byrne Cartwright (27 Dec 1863 – 22 Sep 1944 | Galena IL – Salem OR) poet, sestina / metrical composition expert.

Mina Loy (27 Dec 1882 – 25 Sep 1966 | London UK – Aspen CO) British-born American poet, artist, novelist, actress, designer, futurist, bohemian, playwright, lamp designer, Christian Scientist, born Mina Gertrude Löwy.

Olgivanna Lloyd Wright (27 Dec 1898 – 01 Mar 1985 | Cetinje MNE – Scottsdale AZ) Montenegrin-American novelist, master sacred dancer, Gurdjieff / Theosophical member, F. L. Wright autobiographical editor / author, Taliesin Fellowship co-creator / director.

23 Dec | Women’s Words & Works

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Ada Langworthy Collier (23 Dec 1843 – 06 Aug 1919 | Dubuque IA – Dubuque IA) author writing sketches, short stories, poems, novelist, clubwoman / social activist, pen names Anna L. Cunningham and Marguerite.

Helen Cecilia De Silver Abbot Michael (23 Dec 1857 – 29 Nov 1904 | Philadelphia PA – Boston MA) author, chemist, biologist, physician, hospital founder, plant analysis expert researcher.

Louisa Melvin Delos Mars (23 Dec 1859 – c. 1926 | Providence RI – Boston MA) singer, composer, librettist, first African-American woman to have her opera composition produced, one of first black graduates of New England Conservatory, one of first black women to achieve recognition as a composer [Note: none of her works survive].

Harriet Monroe (23 Dec 1860 – 26 Sep 1936 | Chicago IL – Arequipa PER) poet, editor, scholar, biographer, playwright, literary critic, patron of arts, autobiographical author, Poetry magazine editor / founder / publisher.

Anna Farquhar Bergengren (23 Dec 1865 – unknown | Brookville IN – unknown) editor, author, memoirist, journalist, foreign correspondent, pen name Margaret Allston.

13 Dec | Women’s Words & Works

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Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln (13 Dec 1788 – 12 Apr 1869 | Elizabethtown KY – Coles County IL) pioneer, educational mentor, political family figure, Abraham Lincoln’s step-mother.

Mary Todd Lincoln (13 Dec 1818 – 16 Jul 1882 | Lexington KY – Springfield IL) political family member, US Presidential First Lady, born 30 years to the day after Abraham Lincoln’s step-mother Sarah Bush Lincoln.

Pauline Jacobus (13 Dec 1840 – 1930 | Chicago IL – Dousman WI) potter, founded Pauline Pottery company, opened first art pottery studio in Chicago.

Emily Carr (13 Dec 1871 – 02 Mar 1945 | Victoria BC – Victoria BC) artist, author, memoirist, landscape painter, Canadian cultural icon.

Eleanor Robson Belmont (13 Dec 1879 – 24 Oct 1979 | Wigan UK – New York NY) actress, patron of arts, philanthropist, British-American.

09 Dec | Women’s Words & Works

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Sarah [Tabitha] Babbitt (09 Dec 1799 – 10 Dec 1853 | Hardwick MA – Harvard MA) Shaker, inventor, weaver, tool-maker, member of Harvard Shaker Community, invented false teeth / circular saw / spinning wheel head [but did not patent any of her inventions].

Elizabeth Buffum Chace (09 Dec 1806 – 12 Dec 1889 | Providence RI – Providence RI) Quaker, abolitionist, social reformer, women’s rights activist, president Rhode Island Suffrage, Pembroke College co-founder.

Mary Fletcher Benton Scranton (09 Dec 1832 – 08 Oct 1909 | Belchertown MA – Seoul SK) Methodist Episcopal missionary, first Woman’s Foreign Missionary in Korea, founded Tal Syeng Day School for Women in Seoul and the Training School for Bible Women.

Emma Abbott (09 Dec 1850 – 05 Jan 1891 | Chicago IL – Salt Lake City UT) operatic soprano, impresario / opera company founder.

Ida Sophia Scudder (09 Dec 1870 – 23 May 1960 | Ranipet IND – Kodaikanal IND) doctor, medical missionary, women’s health activist, treated plague / leprosy / cholera, founded Christian Medical College & Hospital in Vellore, India.