14 Dec | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Tappan Wright (14 Dec 1851 – 25 Aug 1916 | Steubenville OH – Cambridge MA) novelist, short story writer.

Lavinia Norman (14 Dec 1882 – 22 Jan 1983 | Montgomery WV – Washington DC) lifelong educator, French / English / Latin teacher, original founding member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority / first sorority founded by African-American women at Howard University.

Helen Steketee (14 Dec 1882 – 23 Aug 1974 | Grand Rapids MI – Grand Rapids MI) artist, still-life / landscape painter.

Jane Bailey Cowl (14 Dec 1883 – 22 Jun 1950 | Boston MA – Santa Monica CA) playwright, stage / film actress, WWII co-director of NYC Stage Door Canteen, wrote in collaboration with Jane Murfin, often used joint pseudonym Allan Langdon Martin.

Ethel Browne Harvey (14 Dec 1885 – 02 Sep 1965 | Baltimore MD – Falmouth MA) author, zoologist, embryologist, women’s educational rights activist / advocate.

12 Dec | Herstorical.Reflections

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Martha Jane Coston (12 Dec 1826 – 09 Jul 1904 | Baltimore MD – Philadelphia PA) businesswoman, Coston emergency machine flare inventor / purveyor.

Sarah Brown Ingersoll Cooper (12 Dec 1835 – 11 Dec 1896 | Cazenovia NY – San Francisco CA) editor, educator, suffragist, philanthropist, women’s rights activist, kindergarten advocate / founder, treasurer for General Federation of Women’s Clubs, founded Jackson Street Kindergarten Association [in 1879, later renamed Golden Gate Kindergarten Association].

Caroline Lake Quiner Ingalls (12 Dec 1839 – 20 Apr 1924 | Brookfield WI – De Smet SD) aka Ma Ingalls, folk / literary / mother / pioneer figure.

Charlotte Frances Felt Wilder (12 Dec 1839 – 03 Dec 1916 | Templeton MA – Manhattan KS) author, novelist, Methodist, civic leader, club woman, magazine writer, juvenile religious writer.

Charlotte [Lottie] Digges Moon (12 Dec 1840 – 24 Dec 1912 | Albemarle County VA – Kobe Harbor JP) teacher, evangelist, missionary, one of first US women to earn Master’s Degree in Languages.

10 Dec | Herstorical.Reflections

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Caroline Mehitable Fisher Sawyer (10 Dec 1812 – 19 May 1894 | Newton MA – Somerville MA) poet, author, essayist, translator, social activist, short fiction writer, Universalist’s women’s and children’s societies advocate.

Jane [Jeanie] McDowell Foster (10 Dec 1829 – 17 Jan 1903 | Pittsburgh PA – Pittsburgh PA) diarist, wife of songwriter Stephen Foster, aka Jane Denny McDowell Wiley, inspiration for song “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair”.

Emily Dickinson (10 Dec 1830 – 15 May 1886 | Amherst MA – Amherst MA) poet, baker, literary figure.

Mary Louisa Parmalee Peebles (10 Dec 1833 – 25 Apr 1915 | Lansingburgh NY – Lansingburgh NY) children’s author, pen name: Lynde Palmer.

Anna Mebus Martin (10 Dec 1843 – 10 Jul 1925 | DEU – Mason County TX) seamstress, entrepreneur, textile trader, Texas rancher, German-American, bank owner / founder, first female bank president born outside US.

09 Dec | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah [Tabitha] Babbitt (09 Dec 1799 – 10 Dec 1853 | Hardwick MA – Harvard MA) Shaker, inventor, weaver, tool-maker, member of Harvard Shaker Community, invented false teeth / circular saw / spinning wheel head [but did not patent any of her inventions].

Elizabeth Buffum Chace (09 Dec 1806 – 12 Dec 1889 | Providence RI – Providence RI) Quaker, abolitionist, social reformer, women’s rights activist, president Rhode Island Suffrage, Pembroke College co-founder.

Mary Fletcher Benton Scranton (09 Dec 1832 – 08 Oct 1909 | Belchertown MA – Seoul SK) Methodist Episcopal missionary, first Woman’s Foreign Missionary in Korea, founded Tal Syeng Day School for Women in Seoul and the Training School for Bible Women.

Emma Abbott (09 Dec 1850 – 05 Jan 1891 | Chicago IL – Salt Lake City UT) operatic soprano, impresario / opera company founder.

Ida Sophia Scudder (09 Dec 1870 – 23 May 1960 | Ranipet IND – Kodaikanal IND) doctor, medical missionary, women’s health activist, treated plague / leprosy / cholera, founded Christian Medical College & Hospital in Vellore, India.

05 Dec | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz (05 Dec 1822 – 27 Jun 1907 | Boston MA – Arlington MA) author, educator, Radcliffe College co-founder / first president, natural history researcher.

Jane Loeau (05 Dec 1828 – 30 Jul 1873 | Waimea HI – Puunui HI) Chiefess of Kingdom of Hawaii, controversial royal Hawaiian family member.

Susan Hale (05 Dec 1833 – 17 Sep 1910 | Boston MA – Matunuck RI) artist, author, educator, world traveler, literary / Unitarian family member.

Alice Brown (05 Dec 1857 – 21 Jun 1948 | Hampton Falls NH – Boston MA) poet, novelist, biographer, playwright.

Maria Louise Anna Beaudet (05 Dec 1859 – 31 Dec 1947 | Tours FR – New York NY) opera singer, French Canadian, stage / silent film actress, opera touring company founder.

03 Dec | Herstorical.Reflections

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Barbara Hauer Fritchie (03 Dec 1766 – 18 Dec 1862 | Lancaster PA – Frederick City MD) folk figure, American Civil War Union activist.

Margaret [Peggy] O’Neal Eaton (03 Dec 1799 – 08 Nov 1879 | Washington DC – Washington DC) folk / political figure, involved in US President Andrew Jackson Petticoat Affair.

Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord (03 Dec 1810 – 23 Nov 1879 | Charleston SC – Charleston SC) poet, author, suffragist, playwright, translator, political essayist.

Phoebe Apperson Hearst (03 Dec 1842 – 13 Apr 1919 | Franklin MO – Pleasanton CA) feminist, suffragist, philanthropist, anthropology museum founder, founding member of National Congress of Mothers, benefactor / director of Golden Gate Kindergarten Association, co-founded all-girls National Cathedral School in Washington, DC.

Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (03 Dec 1842 – 30 Mar 1911 | Dunstable MA – Boston MA) author, professor, environmental chemist, safety / industrial engineer, experimental researcher in domestic science, first to apply chemistry to study of nutrition, first American woman to obtain a degree in chemistry, first female student and professor at MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology], first American woman accepted to any school of science and technology.

01 Dec | Herstorical.Reflections

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Ann Preston (01 Dec 1813 – 18 Apr 1872 | West Grove PA – Philadelphia PA) educator, physician, essayist, Quaker, children’s book author, women’s medical education activist.

Caroline Crane Marsh (01 Dec 1816 – 27 Oct 1901 | Berkley MA – Scarsdale NY) poet, author, translator, women’s rights activist.

Matilda Agnes Heron (01 Dec 1830 – 07 Mar 1877 | Draperstown IE – New York NY) Irish-American actress, translator, playwright.

Christine Ladd-Franklin (01 Dec 1847 – 05 Mar 1930 | Windsor CT – New York NY) author, logician, psychologist, mathematician, color vision theorist / researcher.

Julia Ann Moore (01 Dec 1847 – 05 Jun 1920 | Plainfield Township MI – Manton MI) poet, poetaster known for writing bad poetry, aka Julie Ann Davis, aka The Sweet Singer of Michigan.

28 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Margaret Jane Mussey Sweat (28 Nov 1823 – 16 Jan 1908 | Portland ME – Portland ME) poet, author, diarist, reformer, journalist, travel writer, first female New England book reviewer.

Phebe Cobb Larry Dole (28 Nov 1835 – 26 Apr 1909 | Gorham ME – Windham ME) poet, artist, landscape painter, magazine / newspaper writer, editor-in-chief of weekly Portland ME paper The Narragansett Sun.

Helen Magill White (28 Nov 1853 – 28 Oct 1944 | Providence RI – Kittery Point ME) educator, pacifist, suffragist, school principal, first US female PhD.

Suzanne Adams Stern Mackay (28 Nov 1872 – 05 Feb 1953 | Cambridge MA – London UK) lyric coloratura soprano.

27 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Rachel Brooks Gleason (27 Nov 1820 – 13 Mar 1905 | Winhall VT – Elmira NY) author, physician, essayist, hydrotherapist, anti-slavery activist, women’s dress reform advocate, hydrotherapy spa administrator, fourth US female to earn medical degree.

Adele [Della] Lindley Straup (27 Nov 1866 – 15 Sep 1947 | South Bend IN – Salt Lake City UT) educator, active club woman.

Margaret Ruthven Lang (27 Nov 1867 – 29 May 1972 | Boston MA – Boston MA) composer, devotional pamphlet writer / printer / publisher, one of first two US female composers with music performed by American symphony orchestras.

Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons (27 Nov 1875 – 19 Dec 1941 | New York NY – New York NY) author, feminist, folklorist, sociologist, anthropologist, textbook author, pen name: John Main.

25 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Hannah Maynard Thompson Pickard (25 Nov 1812 – 11 Mar 1844 | Chester VT – Sackville NB) poet, writer, diarist, memoirist, novelist, teacher, pen name The Lady.

Magdalena [Ellen] Rysdam Earp Van Rossum Eaton (25 Nov 1842 – 03 May 1910 | Utrecht NL – Cornelius OR) pioneer, folk figure, Dutch immigrant.

Carrie Amelia Moore (25 Nov 1846 – 09 Jun 1911 | Garrard County KY – Leavenworth KS) author, speaker, newsletter publisher, radical temperance activist, aka Carrie Nation and Carry A. Nation.

Mabel Gardiner Hubbard Bell (25 Nov 1857 – 03 Jan 1923 | Cambridge MA – Chevy Chase MD) educator, philanthropist, aka Mabel Bell, childhood onset of deafness, married Alexander Graham Bell, first president of Bell Telephone Company.

Catherine Anselm Gleason (25 Nov 1865 – 09 Jan 1933 | Rochester NY – Rochester NY) suffragist, engineer, philanthropist, businesswoman, community planner and builder, namesake for Rochester Institute of Technology College of Engineering.