01 Dec | Women’s Words & Works

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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 | Women’s Words & Works

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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 | Women’s Words & Works

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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 | Women’s Words & Works

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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.

23 Nov | Women’s Words & Works

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Katharine Coman (23 Nov 1857 – 11 Jan 1915 | Newark OH – Wellesley MA) author, professor, economist, social activist.

Katharine Pyle (23 Nov 1863 – 19 Feb 1938 | Wilmington DE – Wilmington DE) poet, artist, illustrator, children’s author.

Marie Louise Van Vorst (23 Nov 1867 – 16 Dec 1936 | New York NY – Florence IT) poet, author, painter, novelist, WWI nurse, anti-war activist.

Mary Brewster Hazelton (23 Nov 1868 – 13 Sep 1953 | Milton MA – Wellesley MA) artist, portrait painter, instructor at School of Boston Museum of Fine Arts, first female artist to win US arts award open to both men and women.

22 Nov | Women’s Words & Works

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Abigail Smith Adams (22 Nov 1744 – 28 Oct 1818 | Wentworth MA – Quincy MA) political influencer, one of the founders of the United States, wife and closest advisor of President John Adams, mother of 6th US President John Quincy Adams, first US Second Lady and second US First Lady [though those titles were not used then].

Abby Morton Diaz (22 Nov 1821 – 01 Apr 1904 | Plymouth MA – Belmont MA) author, teacher, women’s rights organizer, Brooks Farm experimental commune member, founded Women’s Educational and Industrial Union of Boston.

Helen Louise Gilson Osgood (22 Nov 1836 – 20 Apr 1868 | Boston MA – Newton Corner MA) teacher, Civil War Union volunteer nurse, co-facilitated post-war orphanage for black children.

Maud Morgan (22 Nov 1860 – 02 Dec 1941 | New York NY – New York NY) singer, composer, classical harpist.

Fannie Caldwell (22 Nov 1863 – 06 Jan 1941 | Shelbyville KY – Louisville KY) prolific novelist, focus on Japanese life, pen name: Frances Little.

21 Nov | Women’s Words & Works

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Henrietta [Hetty] Howland Robinson Green (21 Nov 1834 – 03 Jul 1916 | New Bedford MA – New York NY) heiress, folk figure, millionaire, financial investor, businesswoman, aka The Witch of Wall Street.

Rose Eytinge (21 Nov 1835 – 20 Dec 1911 | Philadelphia PA – Amityville NY) Jewish-American author, actress, memoirist, screenwriter.

Lucy Toulmin Smith (21 Nov 1838 – 18 Dec 1911 | Boston MA – Oxford UK) editor, librarian, antiquarian, translator, Anglo-American.

Isabel Florence Hapgood (21 Nov 1851 – 26 Jun 1928 | Boston MA – New York NY) author, essayist, ecumenist, translator.

19 Nov | Women’s Words & Works

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Ann Terry Greene Phillips (19 Nov 1813 – 24 Apr 1886 | Boston MA – Boston MA) nonviolent abolitionist, delegate to 1840 Anti-Slavery Convention, London.

Matilda Bradley Carse (19 Nov 1835 – 03 Jun 1917 | Saintfield IE – Park Hill-on-Hudson NY) Irish-American social reformer, women’s rights activist, businesswoman, founded Woman’s Temperance Publishing Association [WTPA].

Mary Ann Hallock Foote (19 Nov 1847 – 25 Jun 1938 | Milton NY – Hingham MA) author, illustrator, aka Dean of American Illustrators.

Grace Denio Litchfield (19 Nov 1849 – 04 Dec 1944 | Brooklyn NY – Goshen NY) poet, novelist.

18 Nov | Women’s Words & Works

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Henrietta Sargent (18 Nov 1785 – 11 Jan 1871 | Gloucester MA – Cambridge MA) abolitionist, founded Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society.

Susan Lincoln Tolman Mills (18 Nov 1826 – 12 Dec 1912 | Enosburg VT – Oakland CA) educator, missionary, co-founded Mills College for Women.

Amanda Akin Stearns (18 Nov 1827 – 02 Feb 1911 | Pawling NY – Pawling NY) author, US Civil War nurse, memoirist.

Abigail [Abbey] Perkins Cheney (18 Nov 1851 – unknown | Milwaukee WI – unknown) pianist, author, educator, innovative researcher into therapeutic physiological effects of playing piano.

16 Nov | Women’s Words & Works

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Mary Tyler Peabody Mann (16 Nov 1806 – 11 Feb 1887 | Cambridgeport MA – Jamaica Plain MA) author, educator, biographer, publisher, kindergarten reformer, Transcendentalist.

Minnie Hauk (16 Nov 1851 – 06 Feb 1929 | New York NY – Lucerne CH) memoirist, operatic soprano, born Amalia Mignon Hauck.

Lucy Wilmot Smith (16 Nov 1861 – 01 Dec 1889 | Lexington KY – Lexington KY) editor, teacher, historian, journalist, suffragist, social activist, African-American, women’s rights activist, unfinished book: Women and Their Achievements, one of first female office holder of American National Baptist Convention.

Edith Ogden Harrison (16 Nov 1862 – 22 May 1955 | New Orleans LA – Chicago IL) novelist, travel writer, children’s / fairy tales author, autobiographical author, children’s theater collaborator.