31 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Josephine Louise Le Monnier Newcomb (31 Oct 1816 – 07 Apr 1901 | Baltimore MD – New Orleans LA) philanthropist, founded H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College at Tulane University.

Eliza Boardman Burnz (31 Oct 1823 – 19 Jul 1903 | Essex UK – Walters Park PA) author, librarian, suffragist, founded Burnz’ Fonic Shorthand, shorthand inventor / educator / promoter, aka Mother of Women Stenographers, advocated Dianism sexual practice [physical contact without ejaculation].

Marie Louise Newland Andrews (31 Oct 1849 – 07 Feb 1891 | Bedford IN – Connersville IN) poet, editor, author, few works extant / ever published, founding member / secretary of Western Association of Writers.

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (31 Oct 1852 – 13 Mar 1930 | Randolph MA – Metuchen NJ) children’s poet / short fiction writer, adult novelist / short fiction writer.

Juliette Magill Kinzie Gordon Low (31 Oct 1860 – 17 Jan 1927 | Savannah GA – Savannah GA) organizer / founder / promoter of Girl Guides / Girls Scouts USA.

30 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Temperance [Tempe] Wick Tuttle (30 Oct 1758 – 26 Apr 1822 | Mendham NJ – Morristown NJ) American Revolutionary War folk figure.

Sarah Ewing Hall (30 Oct 1761 – 08 Apr 1830 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) Christian literature poet, educator, essayist, Bible translator and commentator.

Mary Austin Holley (30 Oct 1784 – 31 Jul 1827 | New Haven CT – New Orleans LA) settler, explorer, historical author.

Rebecca Cromwell Rouse (30 Oct 1799 – 23 Dec 1887 | Salem MA – Cleveland OH) social reformer, women’s activist / advocate.

29 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Lucy Goodale Thurston (29 Oct 1795 – 13 Oct 1876 | Marlborough MA – Honolulu HI) teacher, memoirist, letter correspondent, first Christian missionary wife in Hawaii.

[Susan] Helen Aldrich DeKroyft (29 Oct 1818 – 25 Oct 1915 | Rochester NY – Dansville NY) poet, adult-onset blindness, aka The Blind Woman Poet.

Harriet Powers (29 Oct 1837 – 01 Jan 1910 | Clarke County GA – Clarke County GA) folk artist, famous quiltmaker, freed African-American slave.

Elizabeth Flint Wade (29 Oct 1849 – 01 Dec 1915 | Cassville NY – Norwalk CT) poet, author, magazine writer, pictorial photographer, president of Scribblers literary club, editor of American Journal of Photography.

Josephine Beall Willson Bruce (29 Oct 1853 – 15 Feb 1923 | Philadelphia PA – Kimball WV) socialite, women’s rights advocate, editor of NACW journal National Notes, principal at Tuskegee University, first black female teacher in Cleveland public schools, active member National Organization of Afro-American Women.

21 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Caroline Carmichael McIntosh Fillmore (21 Oct 1813 – 11 Aug 1881 | Morristown NJ – Buffalo NY) heiress, eccentric, second wife of US President Millard Fillmore.

Martha [Mattie] Whitney Summerhayes (21 Oct 1844 – 12 May 1926 | Nantucket MA – Schenectady NY) memoirist, travel writer, world traveler, pioneer Army wife, autobiographical author.

Margaret Eleanor Theodora Addison (21 Oct 1868 – 18 Dec 1940 | Horning’s Mills ON – Toronto ON) diarist, educator, first dean of women at Victoria College, Ontario.

Josephine Lovett (21 Oct 1877 – 17 Sep 1958 | San Francisco CA – Rancho Santa Fe CA) stage actress, adapter, screenwriter, riding club co-founder.

Julia Lynch Olin (21 Oct 1882 – 11 Mar 1961 | Glen Cove NY – New York NY) author, publisher, member of Bahá’í faith [later expelled], autobiographical author, co-founded New History Society NYC, formed educational association / monthly magazine The Caravan of East and West.

19 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Anna Murray-Douglass (19 Oct 1813 – 04 Aug 1882 | Denton MD – Washington DC) African-American abolitionist, Underground Railroad activist, first wife of Frederick Douglass.

Amanda Theodocia Jones (19 Oct 1835 – 31 Mar 1914 | East Bloomfield NY – Brooklyn NY) poet, author, inventor, suffragist, spiritualist, Jones Process vacuum canning company founder.

Margaret Hamilton (19 Oct 1840 – 11 Jan 1922 | Rochester NY – Wakefield MA) teacher, Civil War Union nurse, religious Sister of Charity, left Catholic Church and Sisters of Charity, converted to Baptist Church, president National Army Nurse Association.

Annie Smith Peck (19 Oct 1850 – 18 Jul 1935 | Providence RI – New York NY) author, scholar, lecturer, feminist, suffragist, adventurer, mountaineer, travel writer.

Bertha Knight Landes (19 Oct 1868 – 29 Nov 1943 | Ware MA – Ann Arbor MI) Seattle WA mayor, women’s activist, first female elected to govern major US city.

15 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth Van Lew (15 Oct 1818 – 25 Sep 1900 | Richmond VA – Richmond VA) diarist, memoirist, aka Crazy Bet, Civil War Union spy / ring leader, post-War postmistress.

Helen Hunt Fiske Jackson (15 Oct 1830 – 12 Aug 1885 | Amherst MA – San Francisco CA) poet, novelist, historian, pen name: H.H., Native American rights activist.

Fannie Jackson Coppin (15 Oct 1837 – 21 Jan 1913 | Washington DC – Philadelphia PA) educator, missionary, African-American, Bethel Institute co-founder.

Florence Adelaide Fowle Adams (15 Oct 1863 – 31 Jul 1916 | Chelsea MA – Pierce WA) orator, author, gesture / pantomime researcher, educator at Boston School of Oratory, focus on Delsarte method of dramatic expression, founded Boston Ideal Tableaux Company for young women staging tableaux vivants.

Edith Bolling Galt Wilson (15 Oct 1872 – 28 Dec 1961 | Wytheville VA – Washington DC) First Lady, memoirist, unofficial acting US President.

13 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley (13 Oct 1744 – 22 Jan 1832 | Philadelphia PA – Carlisle PA) folk figure, aka Molly Pitcher, American Revolutionary War heroine.

Lillie Langtry (13 Oct 1853 – 12 Feb 1929 | Jersey UK – Monaco FR) British-American actress, vineyard owner, autobiographical author, thoroughbred race horse farm owner, stage production company founder / director, born Emilie Charlotte Le Breton.

Eleanor Clarke Slagle (13 Oct 1868 – 18 Sep 1942 | Hobart NY – Yonkers NY) social worker, occupational therapy pioneer / leader / founder, founding member of National Society for Promotion of Occupational Therapy.

Louise Closser Hale (13 Oct 1872 – 26 Jul 1933 | Springfield MA – Los Angeles CA) actress, novelist, playwright.

11 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Ann Eliza Schuyler Bleecker (11 Oct 1752 – 23 Nov 1783 | New York, Colony of New York – Albany NY) poet, short story writer, letter correspondent.

Anna Warner Bailey (11 Oct 1758 – 19 Jan 1851 | Groton CT – Groton CT) folk figure, storyteller, tavern keeper, Revolutionary War heroine, aka Mother Bailey and The Petticoat Patriot.

Margaretta Bleecker Faugères (11 Oct 1771 – 09 Jan 1801 | New York, Colony of New York – Brooklyn NY) poet, editor, author, playwright, political activist.

Harriet Boyd Hawes (11 Oct 1871 – 31 Mar 1945 | Boston MA – Washington DC) nurse, author, archeologist, relief worker, discoverer / director of one of first Minoan archaeological excavation sites.

10 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah Thompson, Countess Rumford (10 Oct 1774 – 02 Dec 1852 | Concord NH – Concord NH) educator, philanthropist, first US woman to be named Countess, founded school for motherless girls.

Harriet Atwood Newell (10 Oct 1793 – 30 Nov 1812 | Haverhill MA – Port Louis MUS) memoirist, first wave US Christian missionary to India, Burma, and Mauritius.

Josephine [J.P.] Pollard (10 Oct 1834 – 15 Aug 1892 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, editor, author, hymn writer, religious / historical children’s writer, founding member of Sorosis professional women’s club.

Caroline M. Hewins (10 Oct 1846 – 04 Nov 1926 | Roxbury MA – Hartford CT) librarian, travel writer, library activist, children’s author, letter correspondent, autobiographical author, founded first Children’s Reading Room in Hartford [CT], aka First Lady of the Library, founded Education Club for Parents and Teachers [later the Parent-Teachers Association], first woman speaker at annual meeting of American Library Association, founded first Connecticut State Library Committee [later CT State Library Commission].

Eleanor Elizabeth Gordon (10 Oct 1852 – 06 Jan 1942 | Hamilton IL – Keokuk IA) author, educator, suffragist, Unitarian minister, women’s rights activist.

09 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Ann Shadd Cary (09 Oct 1823 – 05 Jul 1893 | Wilmington DE – Washington DC) lawyer, teacher, publisher, journalist, African-American, anti-slavery / Underground Railroad activist, first black woman publisher in Canada and North America.

Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (09 Oct 1830 – 21 Feb 1908 | Watertown MA – Watertown MA) neo-classical sculptor.

Elizabeth Chase Akers Allen (09 Oct 1832 – 07 Aug 1911 | Strong ME – Tuckahoe NY) poet, author, journalist, pen names: Florence Percy and Elizabeth Akers.

Caroline [Carrie] Olivia Mayhew Speake (09 Oct 1834 – 20 Mar 1906 | Alabama US – Alabama US) poet, artist, musician [note: allegorical image created as no images of this woman or her works were located.

Elaine Goodale Eastman (09 Oct 1863 – 22 Dec 1953 | Mount Washington MA – Hadley MA) poet, author, novelist, educator, Native American Sioux advocate, aka The Sister of the Sioux.