05 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Lucy Wright (05 Feb 1760 – 07 Feb 1821 | Pittsfield MA – Watervliet NY) minister, preacher, aka Mother Lucy, Shaker dance form innovator, pioneering female Shaker leader.

Nancy Hanks Lincoln (05 Feb 1784 – 05 Oct 1818 | Hampshire County VA – Spencer County IN) pioneer, seamstress, American folk figure.

Sarah Goodridge (05 Feb 1788 – 28 Dec 1853 | Templeton MA – Boston MA) miniature portrait painter.

Katharine Caroline Bushnell (05 Feb 1856 – 25 Jan 1946 | Peru IL – Piedmont CA) author, scholar, feminist theologian, women’s religious rights activist, American Methodist missionary, member of WCTU [Women’s Christian Temperance Union], authored Bible re-translation called God’s Word to Women.

Maxine Elliott (05 Feb 1868 – 05 Mar 1940 | Rockland ME – Cannes FR) born Jessie Dermott, film / stage actress, theater founder / owner / manager.

31 Jan | Herstorical.Reflections

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Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (31 Jan 1800 – 22 May 1842 | Sault Ste Marie MI – Dundas ON) Scots-Irish-Ojibwe poet, writer, pioneer, translator, aka Bamewawagezhikaquay [Woman of the Sound the Stars Make Rushing through the Sky].

Mabel Jacque Williamson Dwight (31 Jan 1875 – 04 Sep 1955 | Cincinnati OH – Pipersville PA) artist, portraitist, illustrator, lithographer, watercolorist, radical political activist, member American Artists’ Conference.

Myra Reynolds Richards (31 Jan 1882 – 28 Dec 1934 | Indianapolis IN – Indianapolis IN) American sculptor, teacher.

Ella Cara Deloria (31 Jan 1889 – 12 Feb 1971 | White Swan SD – Tripp SD) Yankton Dakota, linguist, novelist, educator, oral historian, ethnographer, anthropologist, Sioux historian, aka Aŋpétu Wašté Wiŋ [Beautiful Day Woman].

Clara Savage Littledale (31 Jan 1891 – 09 Jan 1956 | Belfast ME – New York NY) writer, editor, columnist.

27 Jan | Herstorical.Reflections

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Eunice Hale Waite Cobb (27 Jan 1803 – 02 May 1880 | Kennebunk ME – East Boston MA) author, activist, memoirist, public speaker.

Eliza Allen Billings (27 Jan 1826 – 1866 | Eastport ME – Eastport ME) memoirist, adventurer, disguised male soldier George Mead in Mexican-American War.

Ella Weed (27 Jan 1853 – 10 Jan 1894 | Newburgh NY – New York NY) author, educator, satirical novelist, Barnard College fundraiser / founding member.

Augusta Foss Heindel (27 Jan 1865 – 15 May 1949 | Mansfield OH – Oceanside CA) Danish-American author, esoteric astrologer.

Geneva Mercer (27 Jan 1889 – 02 Mar 1984 | Jefferson AL – Demopolis AL) painter, sculptor.

26 Jan | Herstorical.Reflections

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Julia Boggs Dent Grant (26 Jan 1826 – 14 Dec 1902 | St Louis MO – Washington DC) memoirist, US Presidential First Lady.

Mary Mapes Dodge (26 Jan 1831 – 21 Aug 1905 | New York NY – Tannersville NY) editor, children’s book author.

Franzisca Bernadina Wilhelmina Elisabeth [Elisabet] Ney (26 Jan 1833 – 29 Jun 1907 | Münster DEU – Austin TX) German-American sculptor.

Anna Eliza Hardy (26 Jan 1839 – 15 Dec 1934 | Bangor ME – Jamaica Plain MA) artist, floral still-life specialist.

Mabel Osgood Wright (26 Jan 1859 – 16 Jul 1934 | New York NY – Fairfield CT) novelist, bird / nature / gardening author, early leader in the Audubon movement.

16 Jan | Herstorical.Reflections

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Virginia Caroline Tunstall Clay-Clopton (16 Jan 1825 – 23 Jan 1915 | Nash County NC – Gurley AL) author, memoirist, political wife, suffragist, United Daughters of the Confederacy member.

Ellen Russell Emerson (16 Jan 1837 – 12 Jun 1907 | New Sharon ME – Cambridge MA) author, sketcher, ethnologist.

Sarah Rosetta Wakeman (16 Jan 1843 – 19 Jun 1864 | Afton NY – New Orleans LA) US folk figure, aka Lyons Wakeman, letter correspondent, disguised Civil War Union soldier.

Ella Flagg Young (16 Jan 1844 – 26 Oct 1918 | Buffalo NY – Washington DC) author, essayist, theorist, educator, first female superintendent of major school district, first female president of National Education Association [NEA].

Margaret Wilhelmina Wilson (16 Jan 1882 – 06 Oct 1973 | Traer IA – Droitwich UK) novelist, aka G.D. Turner, 1924 Pulitzer Prize for The Able McLaughlins.

07 Jan | Herstorical.Reflections

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Ann Mayes Rutledge (07 Jan 1813 – 25 Aug 1835 | Henderson KY – New Salem IL) US folk figure, aka [US President Abraham] Lincoln’s First Love.

Julia Thompson von Stosch Schayer (07 Jan 1842 – 29 Mar 1928 | Deering ME – Bronxville NY) short fiction author.

Louise Imogen Guiney (07 Jan 1861 – 02 Nov 1920 | Roxbury MA – Chipping Campden UK) poet, editor, essayist.

Ella Sophonisba Hergesheimer (07 Jan 1873 – 24 Jun 1943 | Allentown PA – Nashville TN) painter, illustrator, printmaker, white-line woodcut creator / innovator.

Florence Winger Bagley (07 Jan 1874 – 1952 | Clay Lick PA – US) author, psychologist, Fechner’s color aesthetics specialist, independent psychology researcher.