19 Jul | Women’s Words & Works

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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’.

14 Jul | Women’s Words & Works

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Amanda Minnie Douglas (14 Jul 1831 – 18 Jul 1916 | New York NY – Newark NJ) author, storyteller, short fiction writer, children’s serial novelist.

Elizabeth Jane Pennock Tallman (14 Jul 1841 – 07 Mar 1941 | Ossian NY – Parker CO) writer, historian, business owner, early Colorado pioneer settler.

Kate M. Gordon (14 Jul 1861 – 24 Aug 1932 | New Orleans LA – New Orleans LA) suffragist, civic leader, periodical editor, co-founded Equal Rights Association, organizer / president Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference.

Florence Bascom (14 Jul 1862 – 18 Jun 1945 | Williamstown MA – Williamstown MA) geologist, essayist, petrography expert / innovator, first woman hired by United States Geological Survey.

Gertrude Buck (14 Jul 1871 – 08 Jan 1922 | Kalamazoo MI – Poughkeepsie NY) poet, playwright, essayist, professor, rhetorician, textbook author, Christian Scientist.

13 Jul | Women’s Words & Works

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Esther Allen Howland (13 Jul 1801 – 14 Apr 1860 | Plymouth MA – Worcester MA) cookbook writer, editor / author of recipes, medical remedies, money-saving tips and advice.

Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield (13 Jul 1819 – 31 Mar 1876 | Natchez MS – Philadelphia PA) African-American singer, music teacher, abolitionist, aka The Black Swan, fundraiser for black orphans and the aged.

Mary Emily Foy (13 Jul 1862 – 21 Feb 1962 | Los Angeles CA – Los Angeles CA) librarian, educator, women’s rights activist, first female Head Librarian at Los Angeles Public Library [at age 18].

Mary Emma Woolley (13 Jul 1863 – 05 Sep 1947 | South Norwalk CT – Westport NY) author, educator, suffragist, peace activist, first female student at Brown University, 11th President of Mount Holyoke College.

June Etta Downey (13 Jul 1875 – 11 Oct 1932 | Laramie WY – Trenton NJ) poet, author, columnist, philosopher, psychologist, handwriting / personality researcher.

12 Jul | Women’s Words & Works

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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.

08 Jul | Women’s Words & Works

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Maria White Lowell (08 Jul 1821 – 27 Oct 1853 | Watertown MA – Cambridge MA) poet, reformer, translator, abolitionist, temperance activist, women’s rights advocate, letter correspondent, literary family member, married to poet James Russell Lowell.

Martha [Mittie] Stewart Bulloch Roosevelt (08 Jul 1835 – 14 Feb 1884 | Hartford CT – New York NY) political family member, mother of US President Theodore Roosevelt.

Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln (08 Jul 1844 – 02 Dec 1921 | South Attleboro MA – Boston MA) cooking teacher, cookbook author, domestic science pioneer, aka Mrs. D. A. Lincoln.

Ella Reeve Bloor (08 Jul 1862 – 10 Aug 1951 | Staten Island NY – Richlandtown PA) social reformer, political activist, children’s book writer, autobiographical author, aka Mother Bloor.

Wilma Lucille Van Slyck (08 Jul 1898 – 28 Jun 1982 | Cincinnati OH – West Covina CA) American landscape artist.

06 Jul | Women’s Words & Works

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Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill (06 Jul 1799 – 01 Jun 1879 | New Haven CT – Princeton NJ) juvenile fiction writer, girls’ / women’s domestic guidebook author.

Sophia Willard Dana Ripley (06 Jul 1803 – 04 Feb 1861 | Cambridge MA – Manhattan NY) Transcendentalist, Roman Catholic convert, co-founded Utopian community Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education in West Roxbury MA.

Elizabeth Sager Helm (06 Jul 1837 – 19 Jul 1925 | Union County OH – Portland OR) survivor, memoirist, Oregon Trail Pioneer, orphaned twice: biological parents on The Trail (1844) and adoptive parents on The Trail in Whitman Massacre (1847).

Maria Howard Weeden (06 Jul 1846 – 12 Apr 1905 | Huntsville AL – Huntsville AL) poet, artist, author.

Julia Hunt Catlin Park DePew Taufflieb (06 Jul 1864 – 17 Dec 1947 | Bennington VT – Cannes FR) socialite, philanthropist, WWI activist, first US woman awarded French Croix de Guerre and Legion d’Honneur.

04 Jul | Women’s Words & Works

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Helen Stuart Campbell (04 Jul 1839 – 22 Jul 1918 | Lockport NY – Dedham MA) author, journalist, educator, literary editor, women’s labor activist, children’s short fiction writer.

Mary Edmonia Lewis (04 Jul 1844 – 17 Sep 1907 | Greenbush NY – London UK) sculptor, African-American Haitian-Mississauga Ojibwe, first African-American / Native American female to achieve international fame and recognition as fine arts sculptor.

Annie Haven Thwing (04 Jul 1851 – 05 Jun 1940 | Roxbury MA – Roxbury MA) Boston historian, nonfiction author, children’s book writer.

Nellie Grant Jones (04 Jul 1855 – 30 Aug 1922 | St Louis MO – Chicago IL) US Presidential daughter, social / literary figure.

Jessie A. Ackermann (04 Jul 1857 – 31 Mar 1951 | Frankfort IL – Pomona CA) writer, feminist, traveler, journalist, social reformer, American WCTU leader, second round-the-world missionary for World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.

28 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Mother Benedicta [Sybilla] Riepp (28 Jun 1825 – 15 Mar 1862 | Waal DEU – St. Cloud MN) Benedictine nun, educator, missionary to Pennsylvania Germans.

Eliza Edmunds Hewitt (28 Jun 1851 – 24 Apr 1920 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) writer, hymnist, educator, Sunday School superintendent.

Helen Francis Hood (28 Jun 1863 – 22 Jan 1949 | Chelsea MA – Brookline MA) pianist, composer, teacher.

Alice May Douglas (28 Jun 1865 – 06 Jan 1943 | Bath ME – Bath ME) poet, peace activist, children’s author, newspaper editor, founder and composer of Peace Makers’ Band, head of Women’s Christian Temperance Union’s Peace and Arbitration.

Grace Rainey Rogers (28 Jun 1867 – 09 May 1943 | Cleveland OH – Greenwich CT) heiress, art collector, philanthropist.

27 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Hannah Mather Crocker (27 Jun 1752 – 11 Jul 1829 | Roxbury MA – Boston MA) essayist, educator, school founder, women’s rights activist, advocate for women Freemasons, Revolutionary War spy, authored first American book on rights of women.

Maria Monk (27 Jun 1816 – 08 Sep 1849 | Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu QC – Roosevelt Island NY) author, memoirist, religious sister, controversial Canadian folk figure, alleged infanticide / systemic sexual abuse in Catholic convent.

Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney (27 Jun 1824 – 19 Nov 1904 | Boston MA – Jamaica Plain MA) writer, editor, reformer, philanthropist, secretary of School of Design for Women.

Eugenia Scholay Washington (27 Jun 1838 – 30 Nov 1900 | Charles Town WV – Washington DC) historian, civil servant, co-founded Daughters of American Revolution / Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America.

Harriet Hubbard Ayer (27 Jun 1849 – 23 Nov 1903 | Chicago IL – New York NY) socialite, journalist, essayist, kidnap victim, proto-feminist, founded first successful US female-owned cosmetics company, editor of New York World newspaper women’s pages, highest paid US female journalist at the time of her death.

24 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis (24 Jun 1831 – 29 Sep 1910 | Washington PA – Mount Kisco NY) author, novelist, journalist.

Elizabeth [Lizzie] Sewall Alcott (24 Jun 1835 – 14 Mar 1858 | Boston MA – Concord MA) writer, literary figure, literary family member.

Ruth Miriam Randall Edström (24 Jun 1867 – 05 Oct 1944 | Wilmington IL – Stockholm SE) peace activist, Unitarian, expatriate, Swedish-American, women’s rights activist, participated in International Women’s Congress, worked on Hague peace conference.

Caroline Ellen Furness (24 Jun 1869 – 09 Feb 1936 | Cleveland OH – New York NY) author, astronomer, astronomy professor at Vassar College, women’s education advocate, first female PhD in Astronomy from Columbia University.

Beatrice Tonnesen (24 Jun 1871 – 12 May 1958 | Winneconne WI – Oshkosh WI) artist, inventor, photographer, Mars Ware sculpture innovator, pioneer in picture calendar photographs, developed process for silhouette photographs, pioneered use of live models in print advertising.