28 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Mason Lyon (28 Feb 1797 – 05 Mar 1849 | Buckland MA – South Hadley MA) chemist, education activist, founded Wheaton Female Seminar [later Wheaton College], founded Mount Holyoke Female Seminary [later renamed Mount Holyoke College].

Sybil Jones Jones (28 Feb 1808 – 04 Dec 1873 | Brunswick ME – Dirigo Corner ME) Quaker minister, foreign missionary.

Cynthia Hicks Van Name Leonard (28 Feb 1828 – 10 Apr 1908 | Buffalo NY – Rutherford NJ) writer, aid worker, suffragist, spiritualist, social reformer, first female NYC Mayoral candidate, founded first IA soldiers home, founded Illinois Good Samaritan Society, created women’s homeless shelters, advocated women prison guards for women.

Sarah Ida Fowler Morgan Dawson (28 Feb 1842 – 05 May 1909 | New Orleans LA – Paris FR) folk figure, Civil War diarist.

Elizabeth Gardiner Glendower Evans (28 Feb 1856 – 12 Dec 1937 | New Rochelle NY – Brookline MA) memoirist, social activist, penal reformer, co-founder of WILPF [Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom].

27 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Emma Jacobina Christiana Marwedel (27 Feb 1818 – 17 Nov 1893 | Münden DEU – San Francisco CA) German-American author, educator, feminist, children’s activist, Froebelian method teacher trainer, pioneer US kindergarten movement leader / activist / founder.

Esther Francesca [Fanny] Alexander (27 Feb 1837 – 21 Jan 1917 | Boston MA – Florence IT) author, illustrator, translator, philanthropist.

Eleanor Agnes Lee (27 Feb 1841 – 15 Oct 1873 | Arlington VA – Lexington VA) poet, diarist, memoirist, folk figure, Confederate military family daughter.

Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (27 Feb 1850 – 14 Jan 1943 | Boston MA – Gardiner ME) novelist, children’s poet, nonsense writer, biographer.

Kate Stephens (27 Feb 1853 – 10 May 1938 | Moravia NY – Lawrence KS) author, feminist, suffragist, biographer, short fiction writer, philanthropist, established Stephens Bequest.

20 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Margaret Bayard Smith (20 Feb 1778 – 07 Jun 1844 | Pennsylvania US – Washington DC) diarist, novelist, essayist, biographer, short story writer, letter correspondent.

Angelina Emily Grimké Weld (20 Feb 1805 – 26 Oct 1879 | Charleston SC – Hyde Park MA) suffragist, abolitionist, letter correspondent, women’s rights advocate.

Sarah Cooke Acheson (20 Feb 1843 – 16 Jan 1899 | Washington PA – Denison TX) suffragist, women’s activist, temperance reformer.

Louise Southgate (20 Feb 1857 – 14 Aug 1941 | Walton KY – Walton KY) author, physician, suffragist, artifact collector, Egyptologist, early proponent of birth control, one of first female doctors in Northern Kentucky, advocate for girls in juvenile court system, Kentucky Equal Rights Association member.

Leonora Jackson McKim (20 Feb 1879 – 07 Jan 1969 | Boston MA – Baltimore MD) violinist, art collector, philanthropist, one of first American women concert violinists acclaimed internationally.

18 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Harriet Farley Dunlevy (18 Feb 1817 – 12 Nov 1907 | Claremont NH – New York NY) editor, writer, social / cultural activist, managed ‘Lowell Offering’ literary magazine published by women textile mill workers.

Ida Husted Harper (18 Feb 1851 – 14 Mar 1931 | Franklin County IN – Washington DC) author, editor, teacher, columnist, journalist, suffragist.

Henrietta Christian Wright (18 Feb 1854 – 13 Dec 1899 | Old Bridge Township NJ – Old Bridge Township NJ) children’s science / history / literature author.

Annie Heloise Abel-Henderson (18 Feb 1873 – 14 Mar 1947 | Fernhurst UK – Aberdeen WA) author, historian, professor, book reviewer.

Mary Williams [Molly] Dewson (18 Feb 1874 – 01 Oct 1962 | Quincy MA – Castine ME) feminist, lesbian, social reformer, political activist.

17 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Ellen Sturgis Hooper (17 Feb 1812 – 03 Nov 1848 | Boston MA – Boston MA) poet, Transcendentalist.

Sallie Holley (17 Feb 1818 – 12 Jan 1893 | Canandaigua NY – New York NY) author, educator, abolitionist, co-founded Holley School for freed slaves, active member of American Anti-Slavery Association, lifelong companion / work partner with Caroline F. Putnam.

Rose Terry Cooke (17 Feb 1827 – 18 Jul 1892 | West Hartford CT – Pittsfield MA) poet, author, humorist, women’s biographer.

Margaret Warner Morley (17 Feb 1858 – 12 Dec 1923 | Montrose IA – Washington DC) novelist, educator, biologist.

Jessie Love Smith Gaynor (17 Feb 1863 – 20 Feb 1921 | St Louis MO – Webster Groves MO) author, musician, children’s music composer.

15 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Floride Bonneau Calhoun (15 Feb 1792 – 25 Jul 1866 | Charleston SC – Pendleton SC) poet, plantation mistress, US Vice-Presidential Second Lady, social-political Petticoat Affair member.

Rebecca Cox Jackson (15 Feb 1795 – 24 May 1871 | Horntown PA – Philadelphia PA) African-American, free woman, religious visionary, Shaker Eldress, founded first black Shaker community in Philadelphia, autobiographical author.

Mary S. B. Dana Shindler (15 Feb 1810 – 1883 | Beaufort SC – Nacogdoches TX) poet, author, editor, hymnist, letter correspondent, born Mary Stanley Bunce Palmer.

Susan Brownell Anthony (15 Feb 1820 – 13 Mar 1906 | Adams MA – Rochester NY) social reformer, suffrage leader, published women’s rights newspaper, co-founded Women’s Loyal National League and American Equal Rights Association.

Sarah Fuller (15 Feb 1836 – 01 Aug 1927 | Weston MA – Newton Lower Falls MA) author, teacher, activist for deaf.

11 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Jarena Lee (11 Feb 1783 – 1855 | Cape May NJ – New Jersey US) memoirist, religious writer, autobiographical author, pioneering female traveling African Methodist Episcopal [AME] minister.

Lydia Maria Child (11 Feb 1802 – 20 Oct 1880 | Medford MA – Wayland MA) author, activist, novelist, journalist, Unitarian, abolitionist, children’s book writer.

Adelaide Rossiter Judd (11 Feb 1821 – 19 Dec 1904 | Torrington CT – Seneca Falls NY) political family member.

Minerva Amanda Sanders (11 Feb 1837 – 20 Mar 1912 | Marblehead MA – Pawtucket RI) teacher, first librarian of the Pawtucket Free Public Library, pioneer library services innovator.

Maria Louise Eve (11 Feb 1842 – 05 Apr 1900 | Augusta GA – Augusta GA) poet, prose writer, educator, social reformer.

09 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Patience Lovell Wright (09 Feb 1725 – 23 Mar 1786 | Oyster Bay NY – London UK) poet, painter, wax sculptor, first recognized US female sculptor, aka The Promethean Modeler, American Revolutionary War political spy / activist.

Sarah [Sally] Hemings (09 Feb 1773 – 1835 | Charles City County, Virginia Colony – Charlottesville VA) diarist, domestic slave, social / political / literary figure.

Lydia Estes Pinkham (09 Feb 1819 – 17 May 1873 | Lynn MA – Lynn MA) women’s herbal remedy inventor / developer / entrepreneur.

Laura Redden Searing (09 Feb 1839 – 10 Aug 1923 | Somerset County MD – San Mateo County CA) poet, journalist, songwriter, pen name: Howard Glyndon, onset of deafness at age 11.

Laura Clay (09 Feb 1849 – 29 Jun 1941 | White Hall KY – Lexington KY) orator, suffragist leader, Kentucky Equal Rights Association co-founder / first president.

08 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson (08 Feb 1825 – 22 Dec 1911 | Boston MA – Malden MA) poet, author, mill girl, bobbin doffer, social activist, suffragist leader.

Cornelia Hancock (08 Feb 1840 – 31 Dec 1927 | Hancock’s Bridge NJ – Atlantic City NJ) author, memoirist, social activist, Civil War Union nurse, educator, school founder.

Katherine [Kate] O’Flaherty Chopin (08 Feb 1850 – 22 Aug 1904 | St Louis MO – St Louis MO) novelist, feminist, short story writer.

Kate Thomson Cory (08 Feb 1861 – 12 Jun 1958 | Waukegan IL – Prescott AZ) painter, photographer, lived in / focused on Hopi villages in Southwest USA.

Maud Slye (08 Feb 1869 – 17 Sep 1954 | Minneapolis MN – Chicago IL) poet, musician, pathologist, cancer researcher, 1923 Nobel Laureate.

07 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Jane Stuart Woolsey (07 Feb 1830 – 09 Jul 1891 | Brooklyn NY – Fishkill NY) teacher, memoirist, Civil War Union nurse, field hospital superintendent.

Hannah Tatum Whitall Smith (07 Feb 1832 – 01 May 1911 | Philadelphia PA – Iffley UK) author, public speaker, temperance activist, spiritual autobiography author, US Holiness Movement / UK Higher Life Movement leader.

Emma Wixom Palmer Nevada (07 Feb 1859 – 20 Jun 1940 | Alpha CA – Liverpool UK) fencer, multi-linguist, operatic coloratura soprano.

Laura Ingalls Wilder (07 Feb 1867 – 10 Feb 1957 | Pepin County WI – Mansfield MO) author, memoirist, pioneer settler, farm journalist, children’s book writer.

Ethel Perrin (07 Feb 1871 – 15 May 1962 | Needham MA – Brewster NY) author, physical education expert / teacher.