10 Feb | Women.Words.Work

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Anne Robertson Johnson Cockrill (10 Feb 1757 – 13 Oct 1821 | Wake County NC – Nashville TN) pioneer landowner, first female to receive land grant in Tennessee.

Mildred Childe Lee (10 Feb 1845 – 27 Mar 1905 | Arlington VA – New Orleans LA) folk figure, Confederate family member, General Robert E. Lee’s youngest daughter.

Marguerite Milton Wells (10 Feb 1872 – 12 Aug 1959 | Milwaukee WI – Minneapolis MN) writer, suffragist, social reformer, MN League of Women Voters state / national president.

Mary Rowena [Rena] Maverick Green (10 Feb 1874 – 29 Nov 1962 | Sedalia MO – San Antonio TX) editor, sculptor, suffragist, memoirist, publisher, watercolorist, social activist, one of first women on San Antonio School Board, co-founder / first president of San Antonio Conservation Society.

Edith Clarke (10 Feb 1883 – 29 Oct 1959 | Howard County MD – Olney MD) author, essayist, first US female electrical engineer, first US female professor of electrical engineering, first woman to earn MS in electrical engineering from MIT, invented / patented Clarke calculator / Clarke transformation, first female Fellow of American Institute of Electrical Engineers.

09 Feb | Women.Words.Work

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Patience Lovell Wright (09 Feb 1725 – 23 Mar 1786 | Oyster Bay NY – London UK) poet, painter, wax sculptor, first recognized US female sculptor, aka The Promethean Modeler, American Revolutionary War political spy / activist.

Sarah [Sally] Hemings (09 Feb 1773 – 1835 | Charles City County, Virginia Colony – Charlottesville VA) diarist, domestic slave, social / political / literary figure.

Lydia Estes Pinkham (09 Feb 1819 – 17 May 1873 | Lynn MA – Lynn MA) women’s herbal remedy inventor / developer / entrepreneur.

Laura Redden Searing (09 Feb 1839 – 10 Aug 1923 | Somerset County MD – San Mateo County CA) poet, journalist, songwriter, pen name: Howard Glyndon, onset of deafness at age 11.

Laura Clay (09 Feb 1849 – 29 Jun 1941 | White Hall KY – Lexington KY) orator, suffragist leader, Kentucky Equal Rights Association co-founder / first president.

03 Feb | Women.Words.Work

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Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson (03 Feb 1737 – 23 Feb 1801 | Horsham PA – Philadelphia PA) poet, author, commonplace book writer.

Amelia Ball Coppuck Welby (03 Feb 1819 – 03 May 1852 | St Michael’s MD – Louisville KY) poet.

Anna Campbell Palmer (03 Feb 1854 – 18 Jun 1928 | Elmira NY – Elmira NY) novelist, aka Mrs. George Archibald.

Alice Locke Park (03 Feb 1861 – 18 Oct 1961 | Boston MA – Palo Alto CA) pacifict, suffragist, feminist, peace / women’s rights activist, WILPF leader, founded Palo Alto Women’s Peace Party, organized American Union Against Militarism [later the American Civil Liberties Union].

Gertrude Stein (03 Feb 1874 – 27 Jul 1946 | Allegheny PA – Neuilly-sur-Seine FR) poet, novelist, lesbian, playwright, language innovator.

29 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Araminta Harriet Ross Tubman (29 Jan 1820 – 10 Mar 1913 | Bucktown MD – Auburn NY) African-American, US folk figure, former slave, Civil War spy / nurse, abolitionist leader, Underground Railroad conductor.

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (29 Jan 1835 – 09 Apr 1905 | Cleveland OH – Newport RI) poet, aka Susan Coolidge, short fiction writer, children’s book author.

Sarah Loguen Fraser (29 Jan 1850 – 09 Apr 1933 | Syracuse NY – Washington DC) African-American, social activist, medical pioneer, first black female graduate Upstate Medical University, first black female doctor in Dominican Republic.

Jeannette Meyer Thurber (29 Jan 1850 – 02 Jan 1946 | Delhi NY – Bronxville NY) pioneering music educator, American Opera Company founder, one of first major US classical music patrons, founded National Conservatory of Music of America, sponsored the debut of Boston Symphony in New York, created / funded scholarships for blacks / women / handicapped.

Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau (29 Jan 1859 – 25 Jul 1915 | New Orleans LA – Cannes FR) American-French, artist’s model, Parisian socialite.

23 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Agnes Maule Machar (23 Jan 1837 – 24 Jan 1927 | Kingston ON – Kingston ON) poet, author, novelist, essayist, feminist, biographer, social reformer, pen-name Fidelis.

Amanda Berry Smith (23 Jan 1837 – 24 Feb 1915 | Long Green MD – Sebring FL) singer, teacher, autodidact, missionary, autobiographical author.

Marianne Cope (23 Jan 1838 – 09 Aug 1918 | Hessen DEU – Kalaupapa HI) German-American, aka The Leprosy Nun, school / hospital / orphanage founder, canonized religious sister Saint Marianne of Molokaʻi.

Antoinette Sterling (23 Jan 1850 – 10 Jan 1904 | Sterlingville NY – Hampstead UK) Anglo-American vocalist, teacher, voice teacher, church singer, Christian Scientist.

Lydia Field Emmet (23 Jan 1866 – 16 Aug 1952 | New Rochelle NY – New York NY) artist, portrait painter, stained glass artist.

19 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Sarah Helen Whitman (19 Jan 1803 – 27 Jun 1878 | Providence RI – Providence RI) poet, author, essayist, Spiritualist, literary figure, transcendentalist.

Alice Hale Hill (19 Jan 1840 – 19 Jul 1908 | Providence RI – Denver CO) political hostess, Colorado State Senator’s wife, social / charitable worker, president of YWCA, charter member of several civic organizations.

Alice Eastwood (19 Jan 1859 – 30 Oct 1953 | Toronto ON – San Francisco CA) Canadian-American author, editor, curator, teacher, journal founder, self-taught botanist, plant collector / discoverer / cataloguer.

Natacha Rambova (19 Jan 1897 – 05 Jun 1966 | Salt Lake City UT – Pasadena CA) actress, ballerina, producer, playwright, memoirist, artistic director, screenwriter, set / costume / fashion designer, elite couture fashion shop owner, born Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy.

Anne Schumacher Hummert (19 Jan 1905 – 05 Jul 1996 | Baltimore MD – New York NY) journalist, advertising executive, multimillionaire, radio serials scriptwriter, pioneering soap opera writer.

04 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Helen Kendrick Johnson (04 Jan 1844 – 03 Jan 1917 | Hamilton NY – Rochester NY) poet, activist, travel writer, children’s author.

Esther B. Singleton (04 Jan 1865 – 02 Jul 1930 | Baltimore MD – Stonington CT) prolific author, journalist, Shakespeare researcher.

Frances Hammell Gearhart (04 Jan 1869 – 04 Apr 1959 | Sagetown IL – Pasadena CA) teacher, landscape artist, watercolorist, lino / woodcut printmaker, pioneer American fine art color printmaker.

Selena Sloan Butler (04 Jan 1872 – 09 Oct 1964 | Thomasville GA – Los Angeles CA) African-American, organized first black women’s Red Cross chapter, founder / first president National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers Association [NCCPT].

Allie Mae Carpenter (04 Jan 1887 – 02 Jul 1978 | Prairie Home MO – Denver CO) artist, etcher, oil painter, pastellist, printmaker, tapestry artist, watercolorist, china painter, art educator, aka A.M. Carpenter, interior designer / decorator.

02 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Queen Emma Kalanikaumakaʻamano Kaleleonālani Naʻea Rooke of Hawaiʻi (02 Jan 1836 – 25 Apr 1885 | Honolulu or Kawaihae, Sandwich Islands – Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) Queen monarch, social activist, hospital founder, advocated Hawaii’s independence.

Alice Mary Robertson (02 Jan 1854 – 01 Jul 1931 | Tullahassee Mission, Creek Nation – Muskogee OK) politician, educator, social worker, anti-feminist, Native American rights advocate.

Martha [Minnie] Carey Thomas (02 Jan 1857 – 02 Dec 1935 | Baltimore MD – Philadelphia PA) linguist, suffragist, Bryn Mawr founder / president, first female Johns Hopkins’ student / honorary graduate.

Anne Sewell Young (02 Jan 1877 – 15 Aug 1961 | Bloomington WI – Claremont CA) author, astronomer, astronomy professor, variable star observer.

Mary Hamilton Swindler (02 Jan 1884 – 16 Jan 1967 | Bloomington IN – Haverford PA) author, archaeologist, art historian, classical art scholar, first female Editor-in-Chief American Journal of Archaeology.

21 Dec | Women’s Words & Works

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Julia Ann Gleason Stone (21 Dec 1818 – 21 Jul 1900 | Warren MA – Cleveland OH) seamstress, wife of well-known Midwest industrialist / New England bridge builder Amasa Stone.

Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman (21 Dec 1829 – 24 May 1889 | Hanover NH – Boston MA) poet, pioneer deaf-blind student, developed unique tapping alphabet and handwriting system.

Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune (21 Dec 1830 – 03 Jun 1922 | Amelia VA – New York NY) novelist, essayist, cookbook writer, short story writer, social etiquette commentator, pen name Marion Harland.

Henrietta Szold (21 Dec 1860 – 13 Feb 1945 | Baltimore MD – Jerusalem EY) author, memoirist, Jewish-American, women’s US Zionist leader, Hadassah Women’s Organization founder.

14 Dec | Women’s Words & Works

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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.