22 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Emily Austin Perry (22 Jun 1795 – 15 Aug 1851 | Austinville VA – Jones Creek TX) pioneer, heiress, font innovator, religious / educational philanthropist.

Caroline Wells Healey Dall (22 Jun 1822 – 17 Dec 1912 | Boston MA – Washington DC) author, feminist, reformer, club woman, Transcendentalist.

Kate Mason Rowland (22 Jun 1840 – 28 Jun 1916 | Detroit MI – Richmond VA) editor, author, historian, biographer, genealogist, historic preservationist, charter member of United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Harriett Mulford Stone Lothrop (22 Jun 1844 – 02 Aug 1924 | New Haven CT – San Francisco CA) aka Margaret Sidney, publisher, literary hostess, children’s fiction author, historical preservationist, Children of the American Revolution founder / facilitator.

Caroline Love Goodwin O’Day (22 Jun 1869 – 04 Jan 1943 | Perry GA – Rye NY) artist, politician, school board president, third woman / first NY Democratic Congresswoman, New York State Board of Social Welfare Commissioner.

21 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Theodosia Bartow Burr Alston (21 Jun 1783 – 29 Dec 1812 | Albany NY – lost at sea off coast of South Carolina) folk figure, letter correspondent, First Lady of South Carolina, US Vice Presidential daughter.

Minnie Dessau Louis (21 Jun 1841 – 12 Mar 1922 | Philadelphia PA – Manhattan NY) poet, author, educator, community leader, co-founder of National Council of Jewish Women.

Mary Salome Cutler Fairchild (21 Jun 1855 – 20 Dec 1921 | Dalton MA – Takoma Park MD) author, librarian, library activist / educator.

Martha Van Rensselaer (21 Jun 1864 – 26 May 1932 | Randolph NY – New York NY) author, editor, educator, domestic scientist, founding co-director Cornell College of Home Economics.

Mary Cromwell Jarrett (21 Jun 1876 – 04 Aug 1961 | Baltimore MD – New York NY) author, educator, researcher, psychiatric social worker, pioneer work with post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD].

18 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Jane Lampton Clemens (18 Jun 1803 – 27 Oct 1890 | Columbia KY – Keokuk IA) literary family figure, mother of Samuel Clemens, portrayed as Aunt Polly in Tom Sawyer.

Frances [Fanny] Sargent Locke Osgood (18 Jun 1811 – 12 May 1850 | Boston MA – New York NY) poet, author, letter correspondent.

Helen Hinsdale Rich (18 Jun 1827 – 04 Sep 1914 | Antwerp NY – St. Joseph MO) poet, lecturer, suffragist, women’s rights activist, temperance worker, short fiction writer, aka Poet of the Adirondacks, first woman to stand for woman suffrage in St. Lawrence County NY.

Laura Adeline Muntz Lyall (18 Jun 1860 – 09 Dec 1930 | Radford UK – Toronto ON) visual artist, Canadian Impressionst, known for portraits of mothers and children.

Carolyn Wells (18 Jun 1862 – 26 Mar 1942 | Rahway NJ – New York NY) poet, author.

06 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Sarah Parker Remond (06 Jun 1826 – 13 Dec 1894 | Salem MA – Florence IT) author, lecturer, physician, abolitionist, African-American.

Annie Adams Fields (06 Jun 1834 – 05 Jan 1915 | Boston MA – Cambridge MA) author, diarist, memoirist, biographer, social reformer, philanthropist.

Elida Barker Rumsey Fowle (06 Jun 1842 – 17 Jun 1919 | New York NY – Dorchester MA) field nurse, songstress, library founder, social activist.

Beulah Poynter Leffler (06 Jun 1883 – 13 Aug 1960 | Eagleville MO – Manhasset NY) actor, author, playwright, short fiction writer, mystery / romance novelist.

A’Lelia Walker (06 Jun 1885 – 17 Aug 1931 | Vicksburg MS – Long Branch NJ) businesswoman, cultural salon hostess, Harlem Renaissance patron of arts.

05 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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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.

02 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Helen Herron [Nellie] Taft (02 Jun 1861 – 22 May 1943 | Cincinnati OH – Washington DC) memoirist, US Presidential First Lady, patroness of music, planted / arranged first plantings of Japanese cherry trees gifted to Washington DC.

Marjorie Hill Allee (02 Jun 1890 – 30 Apr 1945 | Carthage IN – Indiana US) fiction / nonfiction writer, young adult novelist, children’s book author.

Dorothy West (02 Jun 1907 – 16 Aug 1998 | Boston MA – Boston MA) novelist, short story writer, African-American, member of Harlem Renaissance.

Alice Jackson Stuart (02 Jun 1913 – 13 Jun 2001 | Richmond VA – Richmond VA) teacher, professor, educational advocate, first female African-American to apply [and be denied] for graduate school at University of Virginia, earned Master of Arts at Columbia University.

Betty Wishnick-Freeman (02 Jun 1921 – 03 Jan 2009 | Chicago IL – Los Angeles CA) art collector, photographer, philanthropist, biographical author, documentary filmmaker.

01 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Abby Hadassah Smith (01 Jun 1797 – 23 Jul 1879 | Glastonbury CT – Glastonbury CT) suffragist, tax resister, women’s property activist.

Caroline Lee Hentz (01 Jun 1800 – 11 Feb 1856 | Lancaster MA – Marianna FL) author, novelist, playwright, literary figure, anti-abolitionist, short story writer.

Harriet Ruggles Gold Boudinot (01 Jun 1805 – 15 Aug 1836 | Cornwall CT – New Echota GA) folk figure, letter correspondent, Cherokee marriage partner / pioneer.

Emily Donelson (01 Jun 1807 – 19 Dec 1836 | Donelson TN – Nashville TN) shortest-lived US First Lady, White House Hostess.

Anna Eliot Ticknor (01 Jun 1823 – 05 Oct 1896 | Boston MA – Boston MA) author, educator, public library advocate, home education activist, founded Society to Encourage Studies at Home / first correspondence school in the US.

29 May | Women’s Words & Works

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Elizabeth Waties Allston Pringle (29 May 1845 – 05 Dec 1921 | Pawley’s Island SC – Charleston SC) author, diarist, publisher, rice farmer, slave holder, aka Patience Pennington.

Susan Elizabeth Frazier (29 May 1864 – 03 Feb 1924 | New York NY – New York NY) activist, African-American, public school educator, women’s issues / civil rights thought leader, president WWI Women’s Auxiliary of Old Fifteenth National Guard black troop.

Elizabeth Cutter Morrow (29 May 1873 – 24 Jan 1955 | Cleveland OH – Englewood NJ) poet, children’s book writer, first female Head of Smith College, grandmother of kidnapped baby Charles Lindbergh Jr.

Leila Mechlin (29 May 1874 – 04 May 1949 | Washington DC – Washington DC) author, art critic, manager, editor of The American Magazine of Art.

Helen Woodard Atwater (29 May 1876 – 26 Jun 1947 | Somerville MA – Washington DC) editor, author, home economics specialist, full-time editor of the Journal of Home Economics, aka The First Lady of American Nutrition.

28 May | Women’s Words & Works

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Sarah Butler Wister (28 May 1835 – 09 Jun 1908 | Butler PA – Philadelphia PA) author, editor, diarist.

Annie Sherwood Hawks (28 May 1836 – 03 Jan 1918 | Hoosick NY – Bennington VT) poet, hymnist.

Abby Leach (28 May 1855 – 29 Dec 1918 | Brockton MA – Poughkeepsie NY) author, educational pioneer, Greek and Roman Classicist.

Lizzie Black Kander (28 May 1858 – 24 Jul 1940 | Milwaukee WI – Milwaukee WI) educator, relief / settlement worker, cookbook writer, founded Milwaukee Settlement House, Jewish women’s activist / advocate, originated The Settlement House Cookbook.

Katharine Blunt (28 May 1876 – 29 Jul 1954 | Philadelphia PA – New London CT) author, educator, nutritionist, home economist, third president of Connecticut College.

26 May | Women’s Words & Works

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Ann Hall (26 May 1792 – 11 Dec 1863 | Pomfret CT – New York NY) miniature portrait painter.

Mary Andrews Denison (26 May 1826 – 15 Oct 1911 | Cambridge MA – Cambridge MA) editor, novelist, playwright, aka Clara Vance, Civil War nurse, short story writer.

Clara Louise Root Burnham (26 May 1854 – 20 Jun 1927 | Newton MA – Bailey Island ME) author, hymnist.

Edna Brady Cornwell (26 May 1868 – 01 Dec 1958 | Romney WV – Romney WV) newspaper publisher, West Virginia State First Lady.

Peggy Hopkins Joyce (26 May 1893 – 12 Jun 1957 | Berkley VA – New York NY) dancer, actress, folk figure, artist model, autobiographical author.