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.

25 Nov | Women’s Words & Works

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Hannah Maynard Thompson Pickard (25 Nov 1812 – 11 Mar 1844 | Chester VT – Sackville NB) poet, writer, diarist, memoirist, novelist, teacher, pen name The Lady.

Magdalena [Ellen] Rysdam Earp Van Rossum Eaton (25 Nov 1842 – 03 May 1910 | Utrecht NL – Cornelius OR) pioneer, folk figure, Dutch immigrant.

Carrie Amelia Moore (25 Nov 1846 – 09 Jun 1911 | Garrard County KY – Leavenworth KS) author, speaker, newsletter publisher, radical temperance activist, aka Carrie Nation and Carry A. Nation.

Mabel Gardiner Hubbard Bell (25 Nov 1857 – 03 Jan 1923 | Cambridge MA – Chevy Chase MD) educator, philanthropist, aka Mabel Bell, childhood onset of deafness, married Alexander Graham Bell, first president of Bell Telephone Company.

Catherine Anselm Gleason (25 Nov 1865 – 09 Jan 1933 | Rochester NY – Rochester NY) suffragist, engineer, philanthropist, businesswoman, community planner and builder, namesake for Rochester Institute of Technology College of Engineering.

22 Nov | Women’s Words & Works

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Abigail Smith Adams (22 Nov 1744 – 28 Oct 1818 | Wentworth MA – Quincy MA) political influencer, one of the founders of the United States, wife and closest advisor of President John Adams, mother of 6th US President John Quincy Adams, first US Second Lady and second US First Lady [though those titles were not used then].

Abby Morton Diaz (22 Nov 1821 – 01 Apr 1904 | Plymouth MA – Belmont MA) author, teacher, women’s rights organizer, Brooks Farm experimental commune member, founded Women’s Educational and Industrial Union of Boston.

Helen Louise Gilson Osgood (22 Nov 1836 – 20 Apr 1868 | Boston MA – Newton Corner MA) teacher, Civil War Union volunteer nurse, co-facilitated post-war orphanage for black children.

Maud Morgan (22 Nov 1860 – 02 Dec 1941 | New York NY – New York NY) singer, composer, classical harpist.

Fannie Caldwell (22 Nov 1863 – 06 Jan 1941 | Shelbyville KY – Louisville KY) prolific novelist, focus on Japanese life, pen name: Frances Little.

16 Nov | Women’s Words & Works

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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 | Women’s Words & Works

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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 | Women’s Words & Works

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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 | Women’s Words & Works

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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 | Women’s Words & Works

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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 | Women’s Words & Works

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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 | Women’s Words & Works

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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.