16 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Tyler Peabody Mann (16 Nov 1806 – 11 Feb 1887 | Cambridgeport MA – Jamaica Plain MA) author, educator, biographer, publisher, kindergarten reformer, Transcendentalist.

Minnie Hauk (16 Nov 1851 – 06 Feb 1929 | New York NY – Lucerne CH) memoirist, operatic soprano, born Amalia Mignon Hauck.

Lucy Wilmot Smith (16 Nov 1861 – 01 Dec 1889 | Lexington KY – Lexington KY) editor, teacher, historian, journalist, suffragist, social activist, African-American, women’s rights activist, unfinished book: Women and Their Achievements, one of first female office holder of American National Baptist Convention.

Edith Ogden Harrison (16 Nov 1862 – 22 May 1955 | New Orleans LA – Chicago IL) novelist, travel writer, children’s / fairy tales author, autobiographical author, children’s theater collaborator.

13 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth Porter Todd Edwards (13 Nov 1813 – 22 Feb 1888 | Lexington KY – Springfield IL) Mary Todd Lincoln’s sister, guardian, helper, aided Mary’s release from insane asylum.

Helen Archibald Clarke (13 Nov 1860 – 08 Feb 1926 | Philadelphia PA – Boston MA) poet, author, editor, literary critic.

Ariadna Vladimirovna Tyrkova-Williams (13 Nov 1869 – 12 Jan 1962 | Saint Petersburg RU – Washington DC) editor, writer, feminist, fundraiser, journalist, memoirist, biographer, liberal politician, women’s rights activist, member of All-Russian Union for Women’s Equality, co-founded Russian Liberation Committee in London UK.

Laura Hughes Lunde (13 Nov 1866 – 16 Jan 1966 | Toronto ON – Chicago IL) pacifist, feminist, socialist, civic reformer, Canadian-American, co-founded Canadian Labor Party and Canadian Women’s Peace Party.

Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd (13 Nov 1876 – 04 Sep 1962 | Athol MA – Pippa Passes KY) educator, journalist, social reformer, founded Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes KY.

22 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Emily Huntington Miller (22 Oct 1833 – 02 Nov 1913 | Brooklyn CT – Northfield MN) poet, author, educator, hymn writer, laid groundwork for formation of National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union [WCTU].

Abigail Scott Duniway (22 Oct 1834 – 11 Oct 1915 | Groveland IL – Portland OR) writer, suffragist, women’s rights activist, newspaper editor / publisher.

Mary Jane McAfee Atkins (22 Oct 1836 – 13 Oct 1911 | Harrodsburg KY – Colorado Springs CO) heiress, teacher, philanthropist, founded Kansas City Art Museum [now known as Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art].

Annie Louise Cary Raymond (22 Oct 1842 – 03 Apr 1921 | Wayne ME – Norwalk CT) opera / concert singer.

Charlotte Champe Stearns Eliot (22 Oct 1843 – 10 Sep 1929 | Baltimore MD – Cambridge MA) poet, teacher, social worker, mother of T. S. Eliot.

06 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah Pugh (06 Oct 1800 – 01 Aug 1884 | Alexandria VA – Philadelphia PA) teacher, Quaker, suffragist, abolitionist, non-violent activist.

Myra Belle Martin (06 Oct 1861 – unknown | Grafton NH – unknown) author, teacher, financier, social activist, art historian, business executive, founded Patria Club of New York, first female president of Eastern Connecticut Teachers’ Association.

Emily Palmer Cape (06 Oct 1865 – 1953 | New York NY – Florida US) artist, painter, agnostic, co-author, travel writer, freethiker, first female co-ed at Columbia University, co-founded Society of Independent Artists.

Enid Yandell (06 Oct 1869 – 13 Jul 1934 | Louisville KY – Boston MA) author, suffragist, women’s rights advocate, pioneering female sculptor, founded Brancock School for artists on Marchtha’s Vineyard, World War I Red Cross war orphans worker.

02 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Anna Smith Franklin (02 Oct 1696 – 16 Apr 1763 | Boston, Province of Massachusetts – Newport, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations) American colonial newspaper printer and publisher, of the Mintunt and an almanac series, country’s first female newspaper editor, first woman to write an almanac, and first woman inducted into the University of Rhode Island’s Journalism Hall of Fame.

Hannah Adams (02 Oct 1755 – 15 Dec 1831 | Medfield MA – Brookline MA) historical author, first recognized US female professional writer.

Mary Barr Clay (02 Oct 1839 – 12 Oct 1924 | Lexington KY – Richmond KY) poet, author, pioneering Kentucky feminist / suffragist, aka Mary B. Clay and Mrs. J. Frank Herrick.

Eliza Maria Mosher (02 Oct 1846 – 16 Oct 1928 | Cayuga NY – New York NY) inventor, educator, essayist, physician, posture expert, senior editor of Medical Women’s Journal, founder of American Posture League, focus on physical fitness and health maintenance, first female professor / first Dean of Women at University of Michigan, first female resident physician / first female superintendent at Massachusetts Reformatory for Women.

Blanche Roosevelt Tucker (02 Oct 1858 – 10 Sep 1898 | Sandusky OH – Monte Carlo FR) novelist, opera singer, first American woman to sing Italian opera at Covent Garden.

01 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Lydia Huntley Sigourney (01 Sep 1791 – 10 Jun 1865 | Norwich CT – Hartford CT) poet, critic, children’s writer, girls’ school founder, autobiographical author, aka The Sweet Singer of Hartford.

Mary Grew (01 Sep 1813 – 10 Oct 1896 | Hartford CT – Philadelphia PA) preacher, feminist, abolitionist, social activist, public speaker.

Emma Stebbins (01 Sep 1815 – 25 Oct 1882 | New York NY – New York NY) sculptor.

Elizabeth Harrison (01 Sep 1845 – 31 Oct 1927 | Athens KY – San Antonio TX) educator, non-fiction author, autobiographical author, founding president National Louis University, early childhood / teacher training pioneer, founding member of International Kindegarten Movement, sponsored first Mothers’ Convention [later became National Parent Teachers Association].

Anna Botsford Comstock (01 Sep 1854 – 24 Aug 1930 | Otto NY – Ithaca NY) writer, educator, illustrator, conservationist, nature study movement leader.

11 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Eliza Hart Spalding (11 Aug 1807 – 13 Jan 1851 | Kensington CT – Brownsville OR) diarist, pioneer, missionary to Nez Perce, mother of Eliza Spalding Warren.

Octavia Walton Le Vert (11 Aug 1811 – 12 Mar 1877 | Augusta GA – Augusta GA) author, socialite, social activist, memoirist, travel writer.

Oriana [Orie] Russell Moon Andrews (11 Aug 1834 – 26 Dec 1883 | Viewmont VA – Scottsville VA) aka Dr. Orie Moon, Civil War Confederate doctor, Bedouin missionary physician.

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (11 Aug 1836 – 22 Dec 1919 | Lexington KY – Caldwell NJ) poet.

Carrie Minetta Jacobs-Bond (11 Aug 1862 – 28 Dec 1946 | Janesville WI – Hollywood CA) poet, pianist, singer-songwriter, first US female music publisher, autobiographical author, first woman to sell one million copies of a song.

06 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Zerelda G. Wallace (06 Aug 1817 – 19 Mar 1901 | Bourbon KY – Jennings IN) author, suffragist, temperance leader, First Lady of Indiana.

Myrtle Fillmore (06 Aug 1845 – 06 Oct 1931 | Pagetown OH – Lees Summit MO) author, memoirist, school teacher, New Thought practitioner, Unity Church co-founder, née Mary Caroline Page, aka Mother of Unity.

Susie Baker King Taylor (06 Aug 1848 – 06 Oct 1912 | Liberty GA – Boston MA) memoirist, social activist, Civil War nurse, aka The Black Clara Barton.

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt (06 Aug 1861 – 30 Sep 1948 | Norwich CT – Oyster Bay NY) US First Lady, social activist, knitter and needlework artist.

Elizabeth Robins (06 Aug 1862 – 08 May 1952 | Louisville KY – Brighton UK) actress, novelist, playwright, suffragist, pen name: C. E. Raimond.

03 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Graceanna Lewis (03 Aug 1821 – 25 Feb 1912 | West Chester PA – Media PA) author, suffragist, naturalist, illustrator, ornithologist, Underground Railroad activist.

Nina Clifford (03 Aug 1851 – 14 Jul 1929 | Chatham ON – Detroit MI) madam, folk figure, brothel owner, born Johanna Crow.

Caroline [Carrie] Celestia Ingalls Swanzey (03 Aug 1870 – 02 Jun 1946 | Montgomery KS – Pennington SD) typesetter, folk / literary / pioneer figure.

Sophia Kindrick Alcorn (03 Aug 1883 – 28 Nov 1967 | Stanford KY – Stanford KY) educator, deaf-blind disability rights activist, invented Tadoma Method and Alcorn Symbols, American Association for the Blind (AFB) advocate, first female elder of Stanford Presbyterian Church.

Margaret [Maggie] Kuhn (03 Aug 1905 – 22 Apr 1995 | Buffalo NY – Philadelphia PA) writer, social activist, elder rights advocate, Gray Panther founder, autobiographical author.

19 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth [Betty] Zane McLAugusthlin Clark (19 Jul 1759 – 23 Aug 1823 | Moorefield VA – St Clairsville OH) pioneer, folk figure, Colonial heroine.

Catherine Troutman Simmons Broshears Maynard (19 Jul 1816 – 20 Oct 1906 | Meade County KY – Seattle WA) folk figure, pioneer, memoirist, social activist, Seattle WA co-founder.

Mary Ann Bickerdyke (19 Jul 1817 – 08 Nov 1901 | Mount Vernon OH – Bunker Hill KS) author, Civil War Union nurse, hospital administrator, aka Mother Bickerdyke, lifelong veterans’ advocate.

Lizbeth [Lizzie] Borden (19 Jul 1860 – 01 Jun 1927 | Fall River MA – Fall River MA) heiress, literary / folk figure, subject of films / books / plays / folk rhymes, accused and acquitted of murdering father and stepmother in sensational trial, later shunned and ostracized by Fall River community.

Narcissa Florence Foster Jenkins (19 Jul 1868 – 26 Nov 1944 | Wilkes-Barre PA – New York NY) pianist, singer, voice teacher, literary figure, amateur operatic soprano, aka ‘the world’s worst opera singer’.