08 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Maria White Lowell (08 Jul 1821 – 27 Oct 1853 | Watertown MA – Cambridge MA) poet, reformer, translator, abolitionist, temperance activist, women’s rights advocate, letter correspondent, literary family member, married to poet James Russell Lowell.

Martha [Mittie] Stewart Bulloch Roosevelt (08 Jul 1835 – 14 Feb 1884 | Hartford CT – New York NY) political family member, mother of US President Theodore Roosevelt.

Mary Johnson Bailey Lincoln (08 Jul 1844 – 02 Dec 1921 | South Attleboro MA – Boston MA) cooking teacher, cookbook author, domestic science pioneer, aka Mrs. D. A. Lincoln.

Ella Reeve Bloor (08 Jul 1862 – 10 Aug 1951 | Staten Island NY – Richlandtown PA) social reformer, political activist, children’s book writer, autobiographical author, aka Mother Bloor.

Wilma Lucille Van Slyck (08 Jul 1898 – 28 Jun 1982 | Cincinnati OH – West Covina CA) American landscape artist.

06 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill (06 Jul 1799 – 01 Jun 1879 | New Haven CT – Princeton NJ) juvenile fiction writer, girls’ / women’s domestic guidebook author.

Sophia Willard Dana Ripley (06 Jul 1803 – 04 Feb 1861 | Cambridge MA – Manhattan NY) Transcendentalist, Roman Catholic convert, co-founded Utopian community Brook Farm Association for Industry and Education in West Roxbury MA.

Elizabeth Sager Helm (06 Jul 1837 – 19 Jul 1925 | Union County OH – Portland OR) survivor, memoirist, Oregon Trail Pioneer, orphaned twice: biological parents on The Trail (1844) and adoptive parents on The Trail in Whitman Massacre (1847).

Maria Howard Weeden (06 Jul 1846 – 12 Apr 1905 | Huntsville AL – Huntsville AL) poet, artist, author.

Julia Hunt Catlin Park DePew Taufflieb (06 Jul 1864 – 17 Dec 1947 | Bennington VT – Cannes FR) socialite, philanthropist, WWI activist, first US woman awarded French Croix de Guerre and Legion d’Honneur.

04 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Helen Stuart Campbell (04 Jul 1839 – 22 Jul 1918 | Lockport NY – Dedham MA) author, journalist, educator, literary editor, women’s labor activist, children’s short fiction writer.

Mary Edmonia Lewis (04 Jul 1844 – 17 Sep 1907 | Greenbush NY – London UK) sculptor, African-American Haitian-Mississauga Ojibwe, first African-American / Native American female to achieve international fame and recognition as fine arts sculptor.

Annie Haven Thwing (04 Jul 1851 – 05 Jun 1940 | Roxbury MA – Roxbury MA) Boston historian, nonfiction author, children’s book writer.

Nellie Grant Jones (04 Jul 1855 – 30 Aug 1922 | St Louis MO – Chicago IL) US Presidential daughter, social / literary figure.

Jessie A. Ackermann (04 Jul 1857 – 31 Mar 1951 | Frankfort IL – Pomona CA) writer, feminist, traveler, journalist, social reformer, American WCTU leader, second round-the-world missionary for World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union.

28 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mother Benedicta [Sybilla] Riepp (28 Jun 1825 – 15 Mar 1862 | Waal DEU – St. Cloud MN) Benedictine nun, educator, missionary to Pennsylvania Germans.

Eliza Edmunds Hewitt (28 Jun 1851 – 24 Apr 1920 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) writer, hymnist, educator, Sunday School superintendent.

Helen Francis Hood (28 Jun 1863 – 22 Jan 1949 | Chelsea MA – Brookline MA) pianist, composer, teacher.

Alice May Douglas (28 Jun 1865 – 06 Jan 1943 | Bath ME – Bath ME) poet, peace activist, children’s author, newspaper editor, founder and composer of Peace Makers’ Band, head of Women’s Christian Temperance Union’s Peace and Arbitration.

Grace Rainey Rogers (28 Jun 1867 – 09 May 1943 | Cleveland OH – Greenwich CT) heiress, art collector, philanthropist.

27 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Hannah Mather Crocker (27 Jun 1752 – 11 Jul 1829 | Roxbury MA – Boston MA) essayist, educator, school founder, women’s rights activist, advocate for women Freemasons, Revolutionary War spy, authored first American book on rights of women.

Maria Monk (27 Jun 1816 – 08 Sep 1849 | Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu QC – Roosevelt Island NY) author, memoirist, religious sister, controversial Canadian folk figure, alleged infanticide / systemic sexual abuse in Catholic convent.

Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney (27 Jun 1824 – 19 Nov 1904 | Boston MA – Jamaica Plain MA) writer, editor, reformer, philanthropist, secretary of School of Design for Women.

Eugenia Scholay Washington (27 Jun 1838 – 30 Nov 1900 | Charles Town WV – Washington DC) historian, civil servant, co-founded Daughters of American Revolution / Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America.

Harriet Hubbard Ayer (27 Jun 1849 – 23 Nov 1903 | Chicago IL – New York NY) socialite, journalist, essayist, kidnap victim, proto-feminist, founded first successful US female-owned cosmetics company, editor of New York World newspaper women’s pages, highest paid US female journalist at the time of her death.

24 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis (24 Jun 1831 – 29 Sep 1910 | Washington PA – Mount Kisco NY) author, novelist, journalist.

Elizabeth [Lizzie] Sewall Alcott (24 Jun 1835 – 14 Mar 1858 | Boston MA – Concord MA) writer, literary figure, literary family member.

Ruth Miriam Randall Edström (24 Jun 1867 – 05 Oct 1944 | Wilmington IL – Stockholm SE) peace activist, Unitarian, expatriate, Swedish-American, women’s rights activist, participated in International Women’s Congress, worked on Hague peace conference.

Caroline Ellen Furness (24 Jun 1869 – 09 Feb 1936 | Cleveland OH – New York NY) author, astronomer, astronomy professor at Vassar College, women’s education advocate, first female PhD in Astronomy from Columbia University.

Beatrice Tonnesen (24 Jun 1871 – 12 May 1958 | Winneconne WI – Oshkosh WI) artist, inventor, photographer, Mars Ware sculpture innovator, pioneer in picture calendar photographs, developed process for silhouette photographs, pioneered use of live models in print advertising.

22 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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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 | Herstorical.Reflections

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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 | Herstorical.Reflections

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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 | Herstorical.Reflections

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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.