04 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Helen Stuart Campbell (04 Jul 1839 – 22 Jul 1918 | Lockport NY – Dedham MA) author, journalist, educator, literary editor, women’s labor activist, children’s short fiction writer.

Mary Edmonia Lewis (04 Jul 1844 – 17 Sep 1907 | Greenbush NY – London UK) sculptor, African-American Haitian-Mississauga Ojibwe, first African-American / Native American female to achieve international fame and recognition as fine arts sculptor.

Annie Haven Thwing (04 Jul 1851 – 05 Jun 1940 | Roxbury MA – Roxbury MA) Boston historian, nonfiction author, children’s book writer.

Nellie Grant Jones (04 Jul 1855 – 30 Aug 1922 | St Louis MO – Chicago IL) US Presidential daughter, social / literary figure.

Jessie A. Ackermann (04 Jul 1857 – 31 Mar 1951 | Frankfort IL – Pomona CA) writer, feminist, traveler, journalist, social reformer, American WCTU leader, second round-the-world missionary for World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.

02 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Ellen Liddy Watson (02 Jul 1860 – 20 Jul 1889 | Aran Lake ON – Natrona County WY) folk figure, aka Cattle Kate, Ella Watson, Mrs James Averell, accused of cattle rustling, only woman ever lynched in Wyoming.

Grace Raymond Hebard (02 Jul 1861 – 11 Oct 1936 | Clinton IA – Laramie WY) author, historian, suffragist, pioneering scholar, political economist.

Harriet Brooks Pitcher (02 Jul 1876 – 17 Apr 1933 | Exeter ON – Montreal QC) professor, researcher, first female to earn Master’s degree at McGill University, Canada’s first female nuclear physicist, focused on nuclear radioactivity and transmutations.

Lucy Sprague Mitchell (02 Jul 1878 – 15 Oct 1967 | Chicago IL – New York NY) children’s book author, adult non-fiction author, autobiographical author, first female dean UCAL Berkeley, child development / education researcher, founded Bureau of Educational Experiments [became Bank Street College].

Corinne Douglas Robinson Alsop Cole (02 Jul 1886 – 23 Jun 1971 | Orange NJ – Avon CT) state politician, national political family member.

29 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Hannah Maria Libby Smith (29 Jun 1828 – 21 Sep 1906 | Ossipee NH – Provo UT) bobbin doffer, rug weaver, needleworker, historical figure, Mormon pioneer / educator.

Celia Laighton Thaxter (29 Jun 1835 – 25 Aug 1894 | Portsmouth NH – Appledore Island ME) poet, gardener, short story writer.

Julia Clifford Lathrop (29 Jun 1858 – 15 Apr 1932 | Rockford IL – Rockford IL) author, social worker, educational reformer, mother / child rights activist, Director US Children’s Bureau, first-ever female to head federal US bureau.

Emma Azalia Hackley (29 Jun 1867 – 13 Dec 1922 | Murfreesboro TN – Detroit MI) singer, author, lecturer, musician, child prodigy, school teacher, music publisher, civic / social / civil rights activist, founding executive director Colored Women’s League, founded Hackley Choral Society and Voice Normal Institute.

Elizabeth Lehman Myers (29 Jun 1869 – 06 Jan 1936 | Bethlehem PA – Bethlehem PA) historical author / essayist.

27 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Hannah Mather Crocker (27 Jun 1752 – 11 Jul 1829 | Roxbury MA – Boston MA) essayist, educator, school founder, women’s rights activist, advocate for women Freemasons, Revolutionary War spy, authored first American book on rights of women.

Maria Monk (27 Jun 1816 – 08 Sep 1849 | Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu QC – Roosevelt Island NY) author, memoirist, religious sister, controversial Canadian folk figure, alleged infanticide / systemic sexual abuse in Catholic convent.

Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney (27 Jun 1824 – 19 Nov 1904 | Boston MA – Jamaica Plain MA) writer, editor, reformer, philanthropist, secretary of School of Design for Women.

Eugenia Scholay Washington (27 Jun 1838 – 30 Nov 1900 | Charles Town WV – Washington DC) historian, civil servant, co-founded Daughters of American Revolution / Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America.

Harriet Hubbard Ayer (27 Jun 1849 – 23 Nov 1903 | Chicago IL – New York NY) socialite, journalist, essayist, kidnap victim, proto-feminist, founded first successful US female-owned cosmetics company, editor of New York World newspaper women’s pages, highest paid US female journalist at the time of her death.

24 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis (24 Jun 1831 – 29 Sep 1910 | Washington PA – Mount Kisco NY) author, novelist, journalist.

Elizabeth [Lizzie] Sewall Alcott (24 Jun 1835 – 14 Mar 1858 | Boston MA – Concord MA) writer, literary figure, literary family member.

Ruth Miriam Randall Edström (24 Jun 1867 – 05 Oct 1944 | Wilmington IL – Stockholm SE) peace activist, Unitarian, expatriate, Swedish-American, women’s rights activist, participated in International Women’s Congress, worked on Hague peace conference.

Caroline Ellen Furness (24 Jun 1869 – 09 Feb 1936 | Cleveland OH – New York NY) author, astronomer, astronomy professor at Vassar College, women’s education advocate, first female PhD in Astronomy from Columbia University.

Beatrice Tonnesen (24 Jun 1871 – 12 May 1958 | Winneconne WI – Oshkosh WI) artist, inventor, photographer, Mars Ware sculpture innovator, pioneer in picture calendar photographs, developed process for silhouette photographs, pioneered use of live models in print advertising.

20 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Smith Garrett (20 Jun 1839 – 18 Jul 1925 | Philadelphia PA – North Conway NH) author, deaf educator, proponent of speech for deaf [in addition to sign language].

Susan Marcia Oakes Woodbury (20 Jun 1865 – 07 Nov 1913 | South Berwick ME – Ogunquit ME) artist, author, painter, Dutch portrait specialist, Dutch Masters art commentator.

Leah Baird (20 Jun 1883 – 03 Oct 1971 | Champaign IL – Los Angeles CA) silent actress, film producer, screenwriter.

Erica Tietze-Conrat (20 Jun 1883 – 12 Dec 1958 | Vienna AT – New York NY) Austrian-American, author, academic, art historian, one of first women to study art history.

Mary Ross Calvert (20 Jun 1884 – 25 Jun 1974 | Nashville TN – Nashville TN) author, astro-photographer, astronomical computer, high-level assistant at Yerkes Observatory, Yerkes photographic plate collection curator.

15 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Adah Isaacs Menken (15 Jun 1835 – 10 Aug 1868 | New Orleans LA – Paris FR) poet, painter, actress, journalist, née Dolores Adios Fuertes, highest earning actress of her time.

Kate Elizabeth Duval Hughes (15 Jun 1837 – unknown | Philadelphia PA – unknown) author, inventor, translator, US government clerk, Catholic youth writer, invented / patented Combined Window-Sash Fasteners and Holders, created ointment for skin diseases after rediscovering the art of extracting frankincense essential oil, died in poverty and obscurity.

Ernestine Rössler Schumann-Heink (15 Jun 1861 – 17 Nov 1936 | Liebe BOH – Hollywood CA) operatic contralto, historical preservationist, WWII US supporter / fundraiser / entertainer.

Grace Hall Hemingway (15 Jun 1872 – 28 Jun 1951 | Chicago IL – Oak Park IL) painter, composer, opera singer, voice teacher, mother of author Ernest Hemingway.

Helen Tracy Lowe-Porter (15 Jun 1876 – 26 Apr 1963 | Towanda PA – Princeton NJ) author, pen name H. T. Lowe-Porter, pioneering translator of Thomas Mann’s works.

03 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Martha Jane Knowlton Coray (03 jun 1821 – 14 dec 1881 | Covington KY – Provo UT) educator, historian, preservationist, sole female on first Board of Trustees for Brigham Young Academy.

Charcila Cecilia Moore Morse (03 Jun 1838 – 13 Jun 1926 | Anahuac TX – Tampa FL) citrus farmer, pioneer educator, founded St. Anthony Catholic School [now the oldest parochial school in Florida].

Hannah Kent Schoff (03 Jun 1853 – 10 Dec 1940 | Upper Darby PA – Philadelphia PA) author, child welfare activist / worker.

Elinore Pruitt Rupert Stewart (03 Jun 1876 – 08 Oct 1933 | Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory – Rock Springs WY) author, homesteader, letter correspondent, aka the Woman Homesteader.

Edna Noble White (03 Jun 1879 – 04 May 1954 | Fairmount IL – Detroit MI) home economics educator, child development researcher, Merrill Palmer Institute first director.

02 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Helen Herron [Nellie] Taft (02 Jun 1861 – 22 May 1943 | Cincinnati OH – Washington DC) memoirist, US Presidential First Lady, patroness of music, planted / arranged first plantings of Japanese cherry trees gifted to Washington DC.

Marjorie Hill Allee (02 Jun 1890 – 30 Apr 1945 | Carthage IN – Indiana US) fiction / nonfiction writer, young adult novelist, children’s book author.

Dorothy West (02 Jun 1907 – 16 Aug 1998 | Boston MA – Boston MA) novelist, short story writer, African-American, member of Harlem Renaissance.

Alice Jackson Stuart (02 Jun 1913 – 13 Jun 2001 | Richmond VA – Richmond VA) teacher, professor, educational advocate, first female African-American to apply [and be denied] for graduate school at University of Virginia, earned Master of Arts at Columbia University.

Betty Wishnick-Freeman (02 Jun 1921 – 03 Jan 2009 | Chicago IL – Los Angeles CA) art collector, photographer, philanthropist, biographical author, documentary filmmaker.

25 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Katherine Lucinda Sharp (25 May 1865 – 01 Jun 1914 | Elgin IL – Elgin IL) librarian, founded innovative University of Illinois Library School, helped to professionalize librarianship standards.

Cary Fink Angulo Baynes (25 May 1883 – 1977 | Mexico City MX – Zurich CH) American author, translator, pioneer Jungian, I Ching specialist.

Leta Stetter Hollingworth (25 May 1886 – 27 Nov 1939 | Dawes County NE – New York NY) author, psychological researcher.

Sue Shelton White (25 May 1887 – 06 May 1943 | Henderson TN – Washington DC) editor, author, lawyer, aka Miss Sue, reformer, suffragist, public official, National Women’s Party leader.

Clara Porset (25 May 1895 – 17 May 1981 | Matanzas CU – Los Angeles CA) Cuban-American design educator, interior designer, furniture designer, female designer scholarship award founder, bequeathed The Clara Porset Library [best design library in Mexico].