12 Jul | Women.Words.Work

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Sara Tappan Lawrence Doolittle Robinson (12 Jul 1827 – 15 Nov 1911 | Belchertown MA – Lawrence KS) author, Kansas historian, First Lady of Kansas, first donor for Santa Fe Trail Marker, founded research table for women in Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole MA.

Lucy Fitch Perkins (12 Jul 1865 – 18 Mar 1937 | Maples IN – Pasadena CA) children’s book author / illustrator, know for her prolific Twins series.

Cora Ethel Eaton Howarth Crane (12 Jul 1868 – 05 Sep 1910 | Boston MA – Jacksonville FL) writer, journalist, bordello / nightclub owner, common-law wife to author Stephen Crane.

Annie Carroll Moore (12 Jul 1871 – 20 Jan 1961 | Limerick ME – New York NY) author, mentor, educator, librarian, book critic, children’s library activist / advocate, aka the Grande Dame of Children’s [Library] Services.

Hettie Gray Baker (12 Jul 1880 – 14 Nov 1957 | Hartford CT – Porter Corner NY) author, librarian, film editor, title writer, screenwriter, movie executive, censor representative for Twentieth Century Fox.

10 Jul | Women.Words.Work

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Frances Maria [Fanny] Mulligan Hill (10 Jul 1799 – 05 Aug 1884 | New York NY – Athens GR) pioneer educator, Episcopal missionary, co-founded children’s public school in Athens, later founded private girls’ school Hill Institute [now Hill Memorial: oldest continuously-operating children’s school in Greece].

Emma Hale Smith Bidamon (10 Jul 1804 – 30 Apr 1879 | Harmony Township PA – Nauvoo IL) first wife of Joseph Smith, Latter Day Saints movement leader, first president of Ladies’ Relief Society of Nauvoo, compiled first and later LDS Collections of Sacred Hymns.

Laura Maria Sheldon Wright (10 Jul 1809 – 21 Jul 1886 | Saint Johnsbury VT – Iroquois NY) missionary, Seneca Iroquois rights activist / educator, author of school primer in Seneca and English, founded the Iroquois Temperance League.

Amanda M. Way (10 Jul 1828 – 24 Feb 1914 | Winchester IN – Whittier CA) social activist, Quaker minister, temperance leader, Women’s Tribune founder / publisher, American Civil War nurse, founding member of Indiana Woman’s Rights Association.

Katherine Devereux Blake (10 Jul 1858 – 02 Feb 1950 | New York NY – St Louis MO) peace activist, women’s rights activist, principal / schoolteacher.