09 Jul | Women.Words.Work

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Fanny Fern (09 Jul 1811 – 10 Oct 1872 | Portland ME – Manhattan NY) novelist, humorist, born Sara Payson Willis, children’s book author, pioneering female newspaper columnist for The New York Ledger.

Clara Louise Kellogg (09 Jul 1842 – 13 May 1916 | Sumterville SC – New Hartford CT) memoirist, operatic prima donna, opera company founder / director.

Dorothy Thompsom Kopf (09 Jul 1893 – 30 Jan 1961 | Lancaster NY – Lisbon PT) author, journalist, radio broadcaster, aka First Lady of American Journalism, during her life: Second Most Influential Woman in America.

Eunice Allen Lyons Sanborn (09 Jul 1895 – 31 Jan 2011 | Lake Charles LA – Cherokee TX) community activist, co-founded / funded Love’s Lookout Park in Cherokee County TX, supercentenarian [114 years, 195 days], oldest person in United States at time of her death.

Editta Rinaldo Sherman (09 Jul 1912 – 01 Nov 2013 | Philadelphia PA – New York NY) photographer, aka The Duchess of Carnegie Hall.

15 Jun | Women.Words.Work

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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.

05 Jun | Women.Words.Work

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Kate Cumming (05 Jun 1828 – 05 Jun 1909 | Scotland UK – Birmingham AL) diarist, memoirist, Confederate nurse.

Miriam Florence Folline Squier Leslie (05 Jun 1836 – 18 Sep 1914 | New Orleans LA – New York NY) author, memoirist, publisher.

Sarah Elizabeth Forbush Downs (05 Jun 1843 – 1926 | Wrentham MA – Cambridge MA) dime novelist, magazine writer, aka Mrs Georgie Sheldon, Mrs George Sheldon Downs.

Susan Stuart Frackelton (05 Jun 1848 – 14 Apr 1932 | Milwaukee WI – Kenilworth IL) artist, author, ceramics painter, Arts and Crafts movement leader.

Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman (05 Jun 1853 – 19 Mar 1915 | Cedarville IL – Chicago IL) banker, educator, social activist, craftswoman, philanthropist, Woman’s Club leader, physician’s assistant, sister of social activist Jane Addams, mother of Marcet Haldeman-Julius.

21 May | Women.Words.Work

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Nancy H. Adsit (21 May 1825 – 27 Apr 1902 | Palermo NY – Milwaukee WI) art lecturer / educator / essayist, first US female insurance agent.

Elizabeth Storrs Billings Mead (21 May 1832 – 25 Mar 1917 | Conway MA – Coconut Grove FL) author, educator, president of Oberlin and Mount Holyoke Colleges.

Anna Callender Brackett (21 May 1836 – 18 Mar 1911 | Boston MA – Summit NJ) author, educator, translator, philosopher, first female normal school principal, editor of New England Journal of Education.

Mary Virginia [Jennie] Wade (21 May 1843 – 03 Jul 1863 | Gettysburg VA – Gettysburg VA) Civil War Union supporter, lone civilian casualty at Battle of Gettysburg.

Amelia [Amy] Muller Fay (21 May 1844 – 28 Feb 1928 | Bayou Goula LA – Cambridge MA) author, musician, concert pianist.

02 May | Women.Words.Work

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Rhoda Lavinia [Vinnie] Goodell (02 May 1839 – 31 Mar 1880 | Utica NY – Janesville WI) first licensed female lawyer in Wisconsin State.

Katharine Putnam Hooker (02 May 1849 – 07 Jan 1935 | Milwaukee WI – Santa Barbara CA) socialite, philanthropist, travel writer.

Margaret Hill McCarter (02 May 1860 – 31 Aug 1938 | Carthage IN – Topeka KS) teacher, novelist, founded Western Sorosis women’s club.

Julia Barnett Rice (02 May 1860 – 18 Nov 1929 | New Orleans LA – New York NY) musician, physician, civic / social activist, documented unnecessary tugboat whistling / aided passage of 1907 Bennett Act, founding president of The Society for the Suppression of Unnecessary Noise, founded SSUN children’s branch for NYC Board of Education.

Alice Bertha Kroeger (02 May 1864 – 31 Oct 1909 | St. Louis MO – Philadelphia PA) author, lecturer, librarian, professor, student of Melvil Dewey, founder / director of library science program at Drexel University [1892-1909].