27 Apr | Women.Words.Work

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Mary Upton Ferrin (27 Apr 1810 – 11 Apr 1881 | South Danvers MA – Marblehead MA) pioneering suffragist, pamphleteer, public speaker.

Mary Elizabeth Croghan Schenley (27 Apr 1826 – 01 Nov 1903 | Louisville KY – London UK) heiress, Pittsburgh philanthropist, romantic scandal heroine.

Alice Morse Earle (27 Apr 1851 – 16 Feb 1911 | Worcester MA – Hempstead NY) author, pioneering social historian.

Alice Sarah Tyler (27 Apr 1859 – 18 Apr 1944 | Decatur IL – Decatur IL) editor, author, club woman, librarian, Carnegie library activist.

Mary Elliott Flanery (27 Apr 1867 – 19 Jul 1933 | Carter County KY – Cattlettsburg KY) suffragist, politician, journalist, columnist, social reformer, Daughters of Confederacy co-founder, women’s rights activist, first female elected to KY General Assembly and State legislature south of Mason–Dixon line.

25 Apr | Women.Words.Work

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Abigail Brown Brooks Adams (25 Apr 1808 – 06 Jun 1889 | Medford MA – Quincy MA) outspoken political critic, member Boston Brahmin / political family.

Eliza Daniel Stewart (25 Apr 1816 – 06 Aug 1908 | Piketon OH – Springfield OH) aka Mother Stewart, state / local pioneering temperance leader / organizer.

Lucy Goodale Thurston (25 Apr 1823 – 24 Feb 1841 | Kailua HI – Boston MA) member of well-known missionary family, sister of artist Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor.

Mary Torrans Lathrap (25 Apr 1838 – 03 Jan 1895 | Jackson MI – Jackson MI) poet, preacher, suffragist, pen name Lena, temperance reformer, women’s progressive activist, aka The Daniel Webster of Prohibition.

Constance Cary Harrison (25 Apr 1843 – 21 Nov 1920 | Vaucluse VA – Washington DC) aka Refugitta, fiction / nonfiction author, co-creator and seamstress for first US Civil War Confederate Battle Flag.


21 Apr | Women.Words.Work

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Abigail [Abby] Williams May (21 Apr 1829 – 30 Nov 1888 | Boston MA – Boston MA) physician, social reformer, abolition / women’s / education activist, New England School Suffrage leader.

Mary Ann Brayton Woodbridge (21 Apr 1830 – 25 Oct 1894 | Nantucket MA – Chicago IL) weekly news editor, temperance reformer, local / state / national leader of National Women’s Christian Temperance Union.

Charlotte Emerson Brown (21 Apr 1838 – 04 Feb 1895 | Andover MA – East Orange NJ) club woman, co-founder / first president General Federation of Women’s Clubs [GFWC].

Cora Linn Veronica Richmond (21 Apr 1840 – 03 Jan 1923 | Cuba NY – Chicago IL) author, medium, Spiritualist, trance lecturer, co-founded National Spiritualist Association of Churches.

Belle Case La Follette (21 Apr 1859 – 18 Aug 1831 | Summit WI – Washington DC) author, attorney, suffragist, peace movement activist.


19 Apr | Women.Words.Work

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Sarah Kemble Knight (19 Apr 1666 – 25 Sep 1727 | Boston MA – New London CT) diarist, teacher, innkeeper, shopkeeper, traveled from Boston to New York on horseback / kept ongoing journey of the journey.

Sarah George Bagley Duro (19 Apr 1806 – 23 Jun 1883 | Candia NH – Brooklyn NY) labor leader / organizer, newspaper editor / publisher, women’s rights activist / advocate, co-founded Lowell Female Labor Reform Association (LFLRA).

Calista H. Vinton (19 Apr 1807 – 18 Dec 1864 | Willington CT – Rangoon, BUR [now Myanmar]) Baptist missionary, teacher, preacher, mission school administrator.

Mary Louise Booth (19 Apr 1831 – 05 Mar 1889 | Yaphank NY – New York NY) writer, author, historian, magazine editor, French / English translator.

Ella Broadus Robertson (19 Apr 1872 – 05 Dec 1945 | Greenville SC – Louisville KY) nonfiction author.

17 Apr | Women.Words.Work

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Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper (17 Apr 1813 – 31 Dec 1894 | Scarsdale NY – Cooperstown NY) novelist, naturalist, orphanage founder / facilitator.

Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy (17 Apr 1837 – 13 Apr 1900 | Quincy FL – Mobile AL) poet, pen name Kamba Thorpe.

Isabel Chapin Barrows (17 Apr 1845 – 25 Oct 1913 | Irasburg VT – Croton-on-Hudson NY) editor, activist, novelist, essayist, lecturer, missionary, political activist, hydrotherapist.

Anna Garlin Spencer (17 Apr 1851 – 12 Feb 1931 | Attleboro MA – New York NY) author, educator, feminist, Unitarian minister, peace activist / leader.

Helen Everett Peabody Grant (17 Apr 1861 – 06 May 1910 | Keytesville Landing MO – Beausoleil FR) artist, painter.


15 Apr | Women.Words.Work

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Catherine Carney Sager Pringle (15 Apr 1835 – 08 Aug 1910 | Union County OH – Spokane WA) diarist, pioneer, memoirist, survivor.

Ann Maria Miles Sprague (15 Apr 1837 – 27 Nov 1917 | Petersham MA – Westminster MA) educator.

Arabella H. Tucker (15 Apr 1857 – 12 Jun 1936 | North Brookfield MA – Auburn MA) author, botanist, educator, suffragist, clubwoman.

Milicent Washburn Shinn (15 Apr 1858 – 14 Aug 1940 | Niles CA – Alameda County CA) author, literary editor, child psychologist, early childhood development expert.

Emily James Smith Putnam (15 Apr 1865 – 07 Sep 1944 | Canandaigua NY – Kingston JAM) author, women’s educator.

14 Apr | Women.Words.Work

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Isabella Stewart Gardner (14 Apr 1840 – 17 Jul 1924 | New York NY – Cambridge MA) philanthropist, art patron / collector, museum founder.

Jennie Drinkwater Conklin (14 Apr 1841 – 28 Apr 1907 | Portland ME – New Vernon NJ) author, editor, social welfare activist.

Johanna [Anne] Sullivan Macy (14 Apr 1866 – 20 Oct 1936 | Feeding Hills MA – Forest Hills NY) memoirist, childhood onset blindness, teacher / companion of Helen Keller.

Eda Nemoede Casterton (14 Apr 1877 – 08 Dec 1969 | Brillion WI – Palos Verdes Estates CA) painter, oil / pastel / watercolor miniature portrait artist.

Priscilla Fairfield Bok (14 Apr 1896 – 11 Nov 1975 | Littleton MA – Tucson AZ) author, astronomer, scientific collaborator with husband Bart Bok.

13 Apr | Women.Words.Work

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Julia Amanda Sargent Wood (13 Apr 1825 – 09 Mar 1903 | New London NH – St Cloud MN) poet, author, novelist, newspaper editor, pen name Minnie Mary Lee.

Helen Maria Winslow (13 Apr 1851 – 27 Mar 1938 | Westfield VT – Shirley MA) poet, novelist, journalist, Club Woman, co-founded Daughters of Vermont and New England Women’s Press Association.

Lucy Craft Laney (13 Apr 1854 – 23 Oct 1933 | Macon GA – Augusta GA) educator, school principal, founded first black kindergarten, first children’s school, and first nursing school in Augusta GA.

Sarah Hall Ladd (13 Apr 1860 – 30 Mar 1927 | Somerville MA – Carmel CA) pictorial / landscape photographer, Christian Science movement activist.

Anna Easter Brown (13 Apr 1879 – 05 Mar 1957 | West Orange NJ – Rocky Mount NC) educator, history teacher, one of original founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority for female African-American students.


11 Apr | Women.Words.Work

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Margaret Moffette Houston (11 Apr 1819 – 03 Dec 1867 | Marion AL – Independence TX) political family member, First Lady of the Republic of Texas.

Lurana Waterhouse Sheldon Ferris (11 Apr 1862 – 11 Jun 1945 | Hadlyme CT – York ME) poet, lecturer, novelist, suffragist, freethinker, newspaper editor, anti-prohibitionist, pen names Richard Hackstaff, Stanley Norris, Grace Shirley.

Lillie Plummer Bliss (11 Apr 1864 – 12 Mar 1931 | Boston MA – New York NY) art patron / collector, philanthropist.

Mary White Ovington (11 Apr 1865 – 15 Jul 1951 | Brooklyn NY – Newton Highlands MA) suffragist, journalist, social / civil rights activist, NAACP co-founder.

Annie Dodge Wauneka (11 Apr 1910 – 10 Nov 1997 | Navajo Nation AZ – Flagstaff AZ) Navajo, health / education activist, Navajo Nation Council leader.

10 Apr | Women.Words.Work

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Louise Chandler Moulton (10 Apr 1835 – 10 Aug 1908 | Pomfret CT – Boston MA) poet, critic, short-story writer, prose fiction author, literary salon hostess.

Lucy Higgs Nichols (10 Apr 1838 – 25 Jan 1915 | Halifax County NC – New Albany IN) escaped slave, aka Miss Lucy, Civil War Union nurse, sole female honorary member of Grand Army of the Republic.

Mary Emilee Holmes (10 Apr 1850 – 13 Feb 1906 | Chester NY – Rockford IL) geologist, educator, first female fellow of the Geological Society of America, co-founded seminary for young black women.

Helene Carola Nancy Sanford Dow (10 Apr 1874 – 08 Aug 1962 | Brussels BE – Derby CT) author, travel writer, aka Machesa di Poggio.

Margaret [Daisy] Sutermeister (10 Apr 1875 – 30 May 1951 | Milton MA – Milton MA) glass-plate photographer, plant nursery manager, a few years after her death 1800+ photographic works discovered stored in her barn.