28 Mar | Women’s Words & Works

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Rhoda Holmes Nicholls (28 Mar 1854 – 07 Sep 1930 | Coventry UK – Stamford CT) English-American, artist, writer, art instructor, oil / watercolor painter.

Minnie Mancelona [Tip] Andress Pratt (28 Mar 1869 – 12 Nov 1962 | Missouri US – Petoskey MI) teacher, namesake of Mancelona MI, early pioneer settler family member.

Grace Gassette (28 Mar 1871 – 1955 | Chicago IL – Woodstock VT) painter, author, sculptor, WWI Honoree, amputee prosthetic / surgical tool inventor, Chicago Women’s Athletic Club founder, aka The Woman Who Remakes Broken Soldiers, American Ambulance Hospital in Paris surgical department organizer.

Anne Douglas Sedgwick (28 Mar 1873 – 19 Jul 1935 | Englewood NJ – Hampstead UK) American-British novelist.

Clara Lemlich Shavelson (28 Mar 1886 – 12 Jul 1982 | Gorodok UA – Los Angeles CA) suffragist, Communist, revolutionary, garment worker, labor organizer, peace / community activist, co-founded ILGWU [International Ladies Garment Workers Union], co-founded UCWW [United Council of Working-Class Women, which became Progressive Women’s Council].

25 Mar | Women’s Words & Works

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Jennie Carter Benedict (25 Mar 1860 – 24 Jul 1928 | Louisville KY – Louisville KY) cook, columnist, cookbook author, restaurateur, autobiographical author.

Florence Elizabeth Smith Knapp (25 Mar 1875 – 26 Oct 1949 | Syracuse NY – Marcy NY) author, politician, Secretary of State of New York, Dean of College of Home Economics at Syracuse University, accused of maladministration / convicted of grand larceny, only woman elected to statewide office in New York [1924 – 1974].

Frances Glessner Lee (25 Mar 1878 – 27 Jan 1962 | Chicago IL – Bethlehem NH) artist, heiress, dollhouse expert, aka Mother of Forensic Science, created The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, founded The Nutshell Laboratories in Littleton NH, endowed first Department of Legal Medicine at Harvard University.

Bella Cohen Spewack (25 Mar 1899 – 29 Apr 1990 | Transylvania RO – Manhattan NY) diarist, reporter, lyricist, memoirist, screenwriter.

Ruth Winifred Howard Beckham (25 Mar 1900 – 12 Feb 1997 | Washington DC – Washington DC) social worker, child psychologist, pioneering African-American female PhD in psychology.

24 Mar | Women’s Words & Works

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Margaret A. E. Parkinson McLure (24 Mar 1811 – 31 Jan 1902 | Parkersburg WV – St Louis MO) aka Mother McLure, American Civil War Confederate sympathizer, founded Missouri Confederate Home, co-founded Daughters of the Confederacy.

Frances Jane [Fanny] Crosby van Alstyne (24 Mar 1820 – 12 Feb 1915 | Brewster NY – Bridgeport CT) poet, lyricist, composer, blind activist, mission worker, autobiographical author.

Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (24 Mar 1826 – 18 Mar 1898 | Cicero NY – Chicago IL) artist, editor, author, suffragist, Theosophist, freethinker, Native American activist.

Candace Thurber Wheeler (24 Mar 1827 – 05 Aug 1923 | Delhi NY – New York NY) textile / interior designer, women’s arts supporter, aka Mother of Interior Design.

Bertha Hedges Spafford Vester (24 Mar 1878 – 27 Jun 1968 | Chicago IL – Jerusalem ISR) social service activist for girls / women, leader / member of The American Colony in Jerusalem [founded by her parents].

19 Mar | Women’s Words & Works

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Cornelia Grinnell Willis (19 Mar 1825 – 24 Mar 1904 | New Bedford MA – Washington DC) abolitionist, women’s rights advocate, columnist for New York Ledger, protected and purchased freedom for Harriet Jacobs, founding member of first US Woman’s Club, founded school for young women at the Willis Idlewild Estate.

Alice French (19 Mar 1850 – 09 Jan 1934 | Andover MA – Davenport IA) novelist, aka Octave Thanet.

Ellen Gates Starr (19 Mar 1859 – 10 Feb 1940 | Laona IL – Suffern NY) author, teacher, lecturer, bookbinder, child labor activist, anti-industrialist, co-founder of Hull-House, social / political reformer, Arts and Crafts Movement practitioner.

Senda Berenson Abbott (19 Mar 1868 – 16 Feb 1954 | Vilnius LT – Santa Barbara CA ) author, wrote first guide / rule book for women’s basketball, Instructor of Physical Culture at Smith College, aka The Mother of Women’s Basketball.

Edith Nourse Rogers (19 Mar 1881 – 10 Sep 1960 | Saco ME – Boston MA) aviator, politician, social welfare activist, created US GI Bill, veterans advocate, Women’s Army Corps founder, longest tenured US State Representative.

18 Mar | Women’s Words & Works

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Mary Ann Harris Gay (18 Mar 1828 – 06 Nov 1918 | Jones County GA – Decatur GA) poet, author, diarist, memoirist, American Confederate heroine.

Marilla Marks Young Ricker (18 Mar 1840 – 12 Nov 1920 | New Durham NH – Dover NH) author, attorney, suffragist, free-thinker, humanitarian, women’s rights activist.

Sally Berkeley Nelson Robins (18 Mar 1855 – 04 Feb 1925 | Gloucester County VA – Richmond VA) author, suffragist, genealogist, essayist, historian.

Jennie Harris Oliver (18 Mar 1864 – 03 Jun 1942 | Lowell MI – Oklahoma City OK) poet, Poet Laureate of Oklahoma.

Alice Cushing Donaldson Riley (18 Mar 1867 – 09 Aug 1955 | Morrison IL – Pasadena CA) children’s songs /operas / poetry / lullabies author, Drama League of America innovator.

10 Mar | Women’s Words & Works

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Sarah Walter Chandler Coates (10 Mar 1829 – 24 Jul 1897 | Kennett Square PA – Kansas City MO) Quaker, suffragist, social / political activist, women’s club founder / leader, aka The Queen of Quality Hill.

Sarah Malinda [Sam] Pritchard Blalock (10 Mar 1839 – 09 Mar 1901 | Avery County NC – Watauga County NC) US Civil War female soldier, fought for both North and South.

Josephine [Ina] Donna Coolbrith (10 Mar 1841 – 29 Feb 1928 | Nauvoo IL – Berkeley CA) poet, writer, librarian, first-ever US State Poet Laureate.

Hallie Quinn Brown (10 Mar 1850 – 16 Sep 1949 | Pittsburgh PA – Wilberforce OH) writer, activist, educator, abolitionist, elocutionist, humanitarian, African-American, women’s rights activist.

Mary Mills Patrick (10 Mar 1850 – 25 Feb 1940 | Canterbury NH – Palo Alto CA) author, scholar, college president, autobiographer, earned PhD at Universitiy of Bern.

08 Mar | Women’s Words & Works

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Hannah Hoes Van Buren (08 Mar 1783 – 05 Feb 1819 | Kinderhook NY – Albany NY) US Presidential First Lady.

Orra White Hitchcock (08 Mar 1796 – 26 May 1863 | South Amherst MA – Amherst MA) artist, teacher, watercolorist, classroom chart muralist, early female botanical / scientific / geological / landscape illustrator.

Catharine Lorillard Wolfe (08 Mar 1828 – 04 Apr 1887 | New York NY – New York NY) art collector, philanthropist.

Agnes Harrington D’Arcambal (08 Mar 1829 – 14 Feb 1899 | Burlington VT – Detroit MI) social activist, prison reformer, humanitarian, founded D’Arcambal Home of Industry for discharged prisoners.

Josephine Garis-Cochran [later Cochrane] (08 Mar 1839 – 03 Aug 1913 | Ashtabula County OH – Chicago IL) American inventor, invented first successful hand-powered dishwasher, founded Garis-Cochrane Manufacturing Company, renamed 1897 as Cochran’s Crescent Washing Machine Company, posthumously inducted into National Inventors Hall of Fame [2006].

Eliza Poor Donner Houghton (08 Mar 1843 – 19 Feb 1922 | Springfield IL – Los Angeles CA) memoirist, massacre survivor.