19 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah Miriam Peale (19 May 1800 – 04 Feb 1885 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) still-life / portrait painter.

Margaret Junkin Preston (19 May 1820 – 28 Mar 1897 | Milton PA – Baltimore MD) poet, essayist, memoirist, Confederate, blind later in life.

Fidelia Bridges (19 May 1834 – 14 May 1923 | Salem MA – Canaan CT) visual artist, plein-air painter, watercolorist.

Catharine [Kate] Furbish (19 May 1834 – 06 Dec 1931 | Exeter NH – Brunswick ME) botanist, illustrator, watercolorist, co-founded Maine Botanical Society.

Mary Clare de Graffenried (19 May 1849 – 26 Apr 1921 | Macon GA – Washington DC) author, social investigator / reformer.

17 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Annie [Narna] Payson Call (17 May 1853 – 02 Feb 1940 | Arlington MA – Waltham MA) author, healer, librarian, Swedenborgian, writer for Ladies Home Journal.

Mary Devens (17 May 1857 – 13 Mar 1920 | Ware MA – Cambridge MA) pictorial photographer, Photo-Secession member.

Helen May Butler Young (17 May 1867 – 16 Jun 1957 | Keene NH – Covington KY) bandmaster, aka The Female Sousa, first all-women brass band leader.

Dorothy Gibson (17 May 1889 – 17 Feb 1946 | Hoboken NJ – Paris, France) actress, scriptwriter, Titanic survivor, acted in first Titanic film, alleged WWII intelligence operative.

Louise Crenshaw Ray (17 May 1890 – 23 Oct 1956 | Butler AL – Birmingham AL) poet.

16 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (16 May 1804 – 03 Jan 1894 | Billerica MA – Jamaica Plain MA) US editor, writer, educator, translator, school founder, bookstore owner, Transcendentalist, kindergarten founder / teacher / activist.

Mary Nimmo Moran (16 May 1842 – 25 Sep 1899 | Strathaven SCT – East Hampton NY) Scottish-American etcher, landscape artist.

Elizabeth Armstrong Reed (16 May 1842 – 18 Jun 1915 | Winthrop ME – Chicago IL) editor, author, Oriental scholar.

LaSalle Corbell Pickett (16 May 1843 – 22 Mar 1931 | Nansemond VA – Richmond VA) US author, lecturer, biographer Civil War Confederate memoirist.

Matilda Smyrell Calder Thurston (16 May 1875 – 18 Apr 1958 | Hartford CT – Auburndale MA) teacher, missionary, memoirist, founded Ginling College in Nanking.

15 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Susan Barber Lloyd Jones (15 May 1832 – 26 Oct 1911 | Rome NY – Madison WI) author, speaker, activist, hymnist, Unitarian, clubwoman, women’s ministerial activist.

Mary Colman Wheeler (15 May 1846 – 10 Mar 1920 | Concord MA – Providence RI) artist, women’s art teacher, founder / first head Wheeler School.

Susanne Vandegrift Moore (15 May 1848 – 1926 | Bucks County PA – Jacksonville FL) editor, publisher, weekly St. Louis Life owner / editor.

Helen Dawes Brown (15 May 1857 – 05 Sep 1941 | Concord MA – Montclair NJ) editor, novelist.

Emily Jordan Folger (15 May 1858 – 21 Feb 1936 | Ironton OH – Glen Cove NY) scholar, philanthropist, rare book collector, co-founded / funded Folger Shakespeare Library, third woman to receive honorary degree from Amherst College.

10 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah Anne Worthington King Peter (10 May 1800 – 06 Feb 1877 | Chillicothe OH – Cincinnati OH) artist, memoirist, patron of arts, philanthropist, Civil War Union nurse, Catholic convert / activist, founded Philadelphia School of Design for Women [now Moore College of Art & Design].

Lucy Louisa Flower (10 May 1837 – 27 Apr 1921 | Boston MA – Coronado CA) teacher, draftswoman, social justice activist, Chicago Board of Education member, launched Lake Geneva Fresh Air Association, founded women / children’s legal aid bureau, first woman elected to Illinois state office.

Mary [May] French Sheldon (10 May 1847 – 10 Feb 1936 | Bridgewater PA – West Kensington UK) author, explorer, essayist, publisher, translator, short fiction writer.

Emma Payne Erskine (10 May 1854 – 04 Mar 1924 | Racine WI – Tryon NC) author, peace activist, romance novelist, short story writer, patriotic Christian writer.

Sue Hastings (10 May 1884 – 1977 | Monticello NY – Coral Gables FL) artisan, master puppeteer, professor of puppetry, founder / CEO Sue Hastings Marionettes Inc.

08 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Phillis Wheatley (08 May 1753 – 05 Dec 1784 | Gambia or Senegal AF – Boston MA) poet, letter correspondent, first female African-American published author.

Ella Elvira Gibson (08 May 1821 – 08 Mar 1901 | Winchendon MA – Barre MA) poet, editor, educator, essayist, Freethinker, pamphleteer, ordained minister, first female US Army chaplain.

Augusta Evans Wilson (08 May 1835 – 09 May 1909 | Columbus GA – Mobile AL) author, novelist, Southern literature pioneer.

Lucretia Longshore Blankenburg (08 May 1845 – 29 Mar 1937 | New Lisbon OH – Philadelphia PA) author, club woman, civic leader, social activist, genealogist, political family member.

Mary Alice Bird Babb (08 May 1850 – 21 Nov 1926 | Mount Pleasant IA – Aurora IL) women’s education activist, founding member Philanthropic Educational Organization [PEO].

06 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard (06 May 1823 – 01 Aug 1902 | Mattapoisett MA – Manhattan NY) poet, novelist.

Phebe Coffin Hanaford (06 May 1829 – 02 Jun 1921 | Siasconset MA – Rochester NY) poet, author, minister, suffragist, Universalist.

Estelle Skidmore Doremus (06 May 1830 – 21 May 1905 | New York NY – Brooklyn NY) patron of arts, Daughters of the American Revolution regent / charter member, leading member of Americans in Paris during Second French Empire.

Mary Clemmer Ames (06 May 1831 – 18 Aug 1884 | Utica NY – Washington DC) poet, author, journalist.

Annetta Seabury Dresser (06 May 1844 – 10 May 1893 | Boston MA – Boston MA) author, speaker, pioneering New Thought practitioner.

05 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Judith Sargent Murray (05 May 1751 – 09 Jun 1820 | Gloucester MA – Natchez MS) poet, essayist, feminist, playwright, letter writer, pioneering women’s rights advocate.

Ella Sterling Mighels (05 May 1853 – 10 Dec 1934 | Mormon Island CA – San Francisco CA) author, California pioneer, literary historian, pen name: Aurora Esmerelda.

Mary Virginia McCormick (05 May 1861 – 24 May 1941 | Chicago IL – Pacific Palisades CA) heiress, traveler, millionaire recluse, declared mentally incompetent at age 19, daughter of industrialist Cyrus McCormick.

Adelaide Florence Chase (05 May 1862 – 23 Feb 1900 | Fitchburg MA – Boston MA) author, editor, historian, publisher, member of US Women’s Relief Corps.

Elizabeth Cochran Seaman (05 May 1864 – 27 Jan 1922 | Cochran’s Mills PA – New York NY) inventor, novelist, industrialist, charity worker, pen name Nellie Bly, pioneering investigative journalist.

01 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Tabitha Moffat Brown (01 May 1780 – 04 May 1858 | Brimfield MA – Forest Grove OR) educator, pioneer emigrant, social reformer, aka Mother Symbol of Oregon, orphanage co-founder / facilitator, founded Tualatin Academy [later Pacific University].

Fidelia Fiske (01 May 1816 – 26 Jul 1864 | Shelburne MA – Shelburne MA) memoirist, religious missionary, women’s educational activist, Mount Holyoke Seminary college teacher, founder / first principal of Nestorian Female Seminary in Persia (Iran).

Emily Howard Jennings Stowe (01 May 1831 – 30 Apr 1903 | Norwich Township ON – Toronto ON) educator, suffragist, Quaker / then Unitarian, Canada’s first practicing female homeopathic physician, founding member of Toronto Women’s Literary Guild, founding president of Dominion Women’s Enfranchisement Association [became Canadian Suffrage Association].

Mary Harris Jones (01 May 1837 – 11 Nov 1930 | Cork IE – Adelphi MD) author, dressmaker, school teacher, labor activist, aka Mother Jones, community organizer, autobiographical author.

Martha Jane Burke Cannary (01 May 1852 – 01 Aug 1903 | Princeton MO – Terry SD) folk figure, memoirist, aka Calamity Jane, frontierswoman, professional scout.

30 Apr | Herstorical.Reflections

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Abba Louisa Goold Woolson (30 Apr 1838 – 06 Feb 1921 | Windham Center ME – Portland ME) poet, author, lecturer, historian, women’s dress reform advocate.

Mary Scott Lord Dimmock Harrison (30 Apr 1858 – 05 Jan 1948 | Honesdale PA – New York NY) former US Presidential First Lady, second wife of Benjamin Harrison.

Mary Blanche O’Sullivan (30 Apr 1860 – 1940 | Saint John NB – Boston MA) editor, writer, teacher, naturalized American, editor-in-chief of Donahoe’s Magazine, member of New England Woman’s Press Association.

Mary Haviland Stilwell Kuesel (30 Apr 1866 – 22 Jun 1936 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) pioneering female dentist, founded Women’s Dental Association of the United States.

Belle Skinner (30 Apr 1866 – 10 Apr 1928 | Williamsburg MA – Paris FR) arts patron, humanitarian, philanthropist, architectural restorationist, musical instrument collector, aka La Maraine [Fairy Godmother].