22 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Lewis Kinnan (22 Aug 1763 – 12 Mar 1848 | Basking Ridge NJ – Basking Ridge NJ) pioneer, survivor, memoirist, Shawnee captive, sold to Delaware natives, rescued after three years’ captivity.

Emily Chubbuck Judson (22 Aug 1817 – 01 Jun 1854 | Eaton NY – Hamilton NY) poet, writer, memoirist, missionary, aka Fanny Forester.

Helen Mar Kimball Whitney (22 Aug 1828 – 13 Nov 1896 | Mendon NY – Salt Lake City UT) diarist, pioneer, survivor, one of Latter Day Saints founder’s wives.

Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (22 Aug 1856 – 09 Feb 1942 | San Francisco CA – San Francisco CA) artist, biographer, memoirist, portrait painter, autobiographical author.

Georgia Eva Cayvan (22 Aug 1857 – 19 Nov 1906 | Bath ME – Flushing NY) fortune-teller, stage actress, women’s rights activist, stage theatre company founder, one of first women to wear a glass dress.

12 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth Elkins Sanders (12 Aug 1762 – 19 Feb 1851 | Salem MA – Salem MA) essayist, book reviewer, Unitarian, pamphleteer, Native American rights advocate [image note: anonymous 18th c. Massachusetts woman].

Elizabeth Oakes Smith (12 Aug 1806 – 16 Nov 1893 | North Yarmouth ME – Blue Point NY) poet, editor, lecturer, fiction writer, suffragist, women’s rights activist.

Lillie Devereux Blake (12 Aug 1833 – 30 Dec 1913 | Raleigh NC – Englewood NJ) author, suffragist, social reformer, aka Tiger Lily.

Katharine Lee Bates (12 Aug 1859 – 28 Mar 1929 | Falmouth MA – Wellesley MA) poet, author, educator, songwriter, composed ‘America the Beautiful’.

Edith Matilda Thomas (12 Aug 1854 – 13 Sep 1925 | Chatham Center OH – New York NY) poet, editor, author, teacher, typesetter.

12 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sara Tappan Lawrence Doolittle Robinson (12 Jul 1827 – 15 Nov 1911 | Belchertown MA – Lawrence KS) author, Kansas historian, First Lady of Kansas, first donor for Santa Fe Trail Marker, founded research table for women in Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole MA.

Lucy Fitch Perkins (12 Jul 1865 – 18 Mar 1937 | Maples IN – Pasadena CA) children’s book author / illustrator, know for her prolific Twins series.

Cora Ethel Eaton Howarth Crane (12 Jul 1868 – 05 Sep 1910 | Boston MA – Jacksonville FL) writer, journalist, bordello / nightclub owner, common-law wife to author Stephen Crane.

Annie Carroll Moore (12 Jul 1871 – 20 Jan 1961 | Limerick ME – New York NY) author, mentor, educator, librarian, book critic, children’s library activist / advocate, aka the Grande Dame of Children’s [Library] Services.

Hettie Gray Baker (12 Jul 1880 – 14 Nov 1957 | Hartford CT – Porter Corner NY) author, librarian, film editor, title writer, screenwriter, movie executive, censor representative for Twentieth Century Fox.

09 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Fanny Fern (09 Jul 1811 – 10 Oct 1872 | Portland ME – Manhattan NY) novelist, humorist, born Sara Payson Willis, children’s book author, pioneering female newspaper columnist for The New York Ledger.

Clara Louise Kellogg (09 Jul 1842 – 13 May 1916 | Sumterville SC – New Hartford CT) memoirist, operatic prima donna, opera company founder / director.

Dorothy Thompsom Kopf (09 Jul 1893 – 30 Jan 1961 | Lancaster NY – Lisbon PT) author, journalist, radio broadcaster, aka First Lady of American Journalism, during her life: Second Most Influential Woman in America.

Eunice Allen Lyons Sanborn (09 Jul 1895 – 31 Jan 2011 | Lake Charles LA – Cherokee TX) community activist, co-founded / funded Love’s Lookout Park in Cherokee County TX, supercentenarian [114 years, 195 days], oldest person in United States at time of her death.

Editta Rinaldo Sherman (09 Jul 1912 – 01 Nov 2013 | Philadelphia PA – New York NY) photographer, aka The Duchess of Carnegie Hall.

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.

20 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Smith Garrett (20 Jun 1839 – 18 Jul 1925 | Philadelphia PA – North Conway NH) author, deaf educator, proponent of speech for deaf [in addition to sign language].

Susan Marcia Oakes Woodbury (20 Jun 1865 – 07 Nov 1913 | South Berwick ME – Ogunquit ME) artist, author, painter, Dutch portrait specialist, Dutch Masters art commentator.

Leah Baird (20 Jun 1883 – 03 Oct 1971 | Champaign IL – Los Angeles CA) silent actress, film producer, screenwriter.

Erica Tietze-Conrat (20 Jun 1883 – 12 Dec 1958 | Vienna AT – New York NY) Austrian-American, author, academic, art historian, one of first women to study art history.

Mary Ross Calvert (20 Jun 1884 – 25 Jun 1974 | Nashville TN – Nashville TN) author, astro-photographer, astronomical computer, high-level assistant at Yerkes Observatory, Yerkes photographic plate collection curator.

30 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Zilpah Polly Grant Banister (30 May 1794 – 03 Dec 1874 | Norfolk CT – Newburyport MA) educator, pamphleteer, women’s seminary founder.

Persis Foster Eames Albee (30 May 1836 – 07 Dec 1914 | Newry ME – Templeton MA) aka PFE Albee and The First Avon Lady, women’s business trainer / advocate, professional saleswoman for California Perfume Company [later Avon Products].

Katrina Trask (30 May 1853 – 08 Jan 1922 | Brooklyn NY – Saratoga Springs NY) poet, memoirist, playwright, philanthropist, co-founder of Yaddo artists’ retreat, aka Kate Nicholes Trask.

Florence Casler (30 May 1869 – 15 Mar 1954 | Welland ON – Yolo CA) plumber, groundbreaking female architect / contractor / real estate developer of downtown Los Angeles, first female / then sole female director Peoples Bank of Los Angeles.

Josephine Preston Peabody (30 May 1874 – 04 Dec 1922 | New York NY – Cambridge MA) poet, dramatist.

27 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Julia Evelina Smith (27 May 1792 – 06 Mar 1886 | Glastonbury CT – Hartford CT) author, suffragist, women’s tax / property activist, first female English Bible translator.

Amelia Jenks Bloomer (27 May 1818 – 30 Dec 1894 | Homer NY – Council Bluffs IA) writer, editor, speaker, publisher, suffragist, women’s dress reformer, temperance advocate, women’s tax rights activist.

Julia Ward Howe (27 May 1819 – 17 Oct 1910 | New York NY – Portsmouth RI) poet, hymnist, suffragist, abolitionist, social activist.

May Wright Sewall (27 May 1844 – 22 Jul 1920 | Greenfield WI – Indianapolis IN) educator, lecturer, letterist, reformer, suffragist, civic / social activist, philanthropist.

Alzina Parsons Stevens (27 May 1849 – 03 Jun 1900 | Parsonsfield ME – Chicago IL) journalist, labor leader, settlement worker.

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.

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].