14 Dec | Herstorical.Reflections

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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.

01 Dec | Herstorical.Reflections

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Ann Preston (01 Dec 1813 – 18 Apr 1872 | West Grove PA – Philadelphia PA) educator, physician, essayist, Quaker, children’s book author, women’s medical education activist.

Caroline Crane Marsh (01 Dec 1816 – 27 Oct 1901 | Berkley MA – Scarsdale NY) poet, author, translator, women’s rights activist.

Matilda Agnes Heron (01 Dec 1830 – 07 Mar 1877 | Draperstown IE – New York NY) Irish-American actress, translator, playwright.

Christine Ladd-Franklin (01 Dec 1847 – 05 Mar 1930 | Windsor CT – New York NY) author, logician, psychologist, mathematician, color vision theorist / researcher.

Julia Ann Moore (01 Dec 1847 – 05 Jun 1920 | Plainfield Township MI – Manton MI) poet, poetaster known for writing bad poetry, aka Julie Ann Davis, aka The Sweet Singer of Michigan.

15 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Ellen Louise Curtis Demorest (15 Nov 1824 – 10 Aug 1898 | Schuylerville NY – New York NY) milliner, fashion arbiter, magazine founder, tissue paper sewing pattern inventor / innovator.

Elizabeth [Lily] Benton Frémont (15 Nov 1842 – 28 May 1919 | Washington DC – Los Angeles CA) memoirist, letter correspondent, political family member.

Mary Emma Byrd (15 Nov 1849 – 13 Jul 1934 | Le Roy MI – Lawrence KS) author, educator, astronomer, photographer.

Margaret Amanada Haley (15 Nov 1861 – 05 Jan 1939 | Joliet IL – Chicago IL) teacher, unionist, teachers’ organizer, anti-corporate tax evasion, aka Lady Labor Slugger, first female / teacher to speak to National Education Association, first business representative of Chicago Teachers’ Federation.

Sara Josephine Baker (15 Nov 1873 – 22 Feb 1945 | Poughkeepsie NY – Princeton NJ) author, physician, essayist, lesbian, feminist, autobiographer, children’s public health activist / reformer, twice tracked down Typhoid Mary for quarantine.

07 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Lua Adelia Davis Treat (07 Sep 1830 – 11 Apr 1923 | Trumansburg NY – Pembroke NY) writer, botanist, naturalist, entomologist, utopian community member, collaborated with Charles Darwin, aka ‘One of Darwin’s Women’.

Alice Chipman Dewey (07 Sep 1858 – 14 Jul 1927 | Fenton MI – New York NY) PhD, author, mother, educator, philosopher, world traveler, women’s right activist, letter correspondent, co-founded Laboratory School with husband John Dewey.

Laura Coombs Hills (07 Sep 1859 – 21 Feb 1952 | Newburyport MA – Massachusetts) designer, illustrator, watercolorist, miniature portrait painter.

Anna Mary Robertson Moses (07 Sep 1860 – 13 Dec 1961 | Greenwich NY – Hoosick Falls NY) farmer, folk artist, aka Grandma Moses, needlework artist.

Nellie Arnold Plummer (07 Sep 1860 – 01 Jan 1933 | Ellicott’s Mills MD – Hyatsville MD) author, teacher, former slave, first female student at Wayland Seminary, biographical / autobiographical writer.

21 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Lizzie Macomber (21 Aug 1861 – 04 Feb 1916 | Fall River MA – Boston MA) Pre-Raphaelite painter.

Alice Schille (21 Aug 1869 – 06 Nov 1955 | Columbus OH – Columbus OH) painter, watercolorist, art teacher.

Winnifred Eaton (21 Aug 1875 – 08 Apr 1954 | Montreal QC – Butte MT) novelist, screenwriter, pen name: Onoto Watanna.

Queena Mario (21 Aug 1896 – 28 May 1951 | Akron OH – New York NY) operatic soprano, opera professor, newspaper columnist, opera-themed mystery novelist, pen name: Florence Bryant, born Queena Mariana Tillotson.

Constance McLaughlin Winsor Green (21 Aug 1897 – 05 Dec 1975 | Ann Arbor MI – Annapolis MD) author, historian, Laureate for Pulitzer Prize in History [1963].

04 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Susanna Wright (04 Aug 1697 – 01 Dec 1784 | Lancashire UK – Wright’s Ferry PA) poet, pundit, author, pioneer, translator, landowner, entrepreneur, multi-linguist, first American female silk farmer / producer / exporter.

Clarissa C. Bryan Cook (04 Aug 1811 – 19 Feb 1879 | Sidney NY – Davenport IA) philanthropist, civic / religious / charitable activist, founded Clarissa Cook Library and Clarissa C. Cook Home for the Friendless [later Clarissa C. Cook Retirement Home].

Florence Newell Barbour (04 Aug 1866 – 24 Jul 1946 | Providence RI – Providence RI) pianist, lyricist, musician, composer.

Emily Helen Butterfield (04 Aug 1884 – 22 Mar 1958 | Algonac MI – Neebish Island MI) artist, editor, author, architect, feminist activist, children’s book writer, first licensed female architect in Michigan, pen-and-ink / watercolor illustrator.

Barbara Nachtrieb Grimes Armstrong (04 Aug 1890 – 18 Jan 1976 | San Francisco CA – Oakland CA) author, legal scholar, law professor, social insurance advocate.

25 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Maria Weston Chapman (25 Jul 1806 – 12 Jul 1885 | Weymouth MA – Weymouth MA) editor, hymnist, abolitionist, letter correspondent.

Flora Adams Darling (25 Jul 1840 – 06 Jan 1910 | Lancaster NH – New York NY) author, memoirist, founding president US Daughters of 1812, born Sophronia A. Adams.

Ella R. Starbuck Montague (25 Jul 1859 – 07 Jan 1910 | Winston NC – Winston NC) boarding house owner, Moravian church / settlement family member.

Estelle May Hurll (25 Jul 1863 – 08 May 1924 | New Bedford MA – Wellesley MA) author, art historian, expert in aesthetics, assistant professor at Wellesley College, then full professor / head of Philosophy Department at Mount Holyoke College.

Kathryn Leone Wood (25 Jul 1869 – 12 Mar 1936 | Kalamazoo MI – Los Altos CA) writer, artist, miniaturist, portrait painter. [Note: portrait is one painted by KLW, not necessarily one of herself.]

18 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Clara A. Swain (18 Jul 1834 – 25 Dec 1910 | Elmira NY – Castile NY) author, educator, physician, missionary, founded first women’s hospital in India.

Helen Jackson Gougar (18 Jul 1843 – 06 Jun 1907 | Hillsdale MI – Lafayette IN) author, women’s rights leader / activist / lecturer.

Rose Alnora Hartwick Thorpe (18 Jul 1850 – 19 Jul 1939 | Mishawaka IN – San Diego CA) poet.

Margaret Tobin Brown (18 Jul 1867 – 26 Oct 1932 | Hannibal MO – New York NY) Titanic survivor, socialite, social activist, philanthropist, aka Molly Brown, Maggie Brown, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown.

Rose Harriet Pastor Wieslander Stokes (18 Jul 1879 – 20 Jun 1933 | Augustava Suvolk RU – Frankfurt DEU) American writer, feminist, playwright, socialist activist, birth control advocate, autobiographical author.

14 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Amanda Minnie Douglas (14 Jul 1831 – 18 Jul 1916 | New York NY – Newark NJ) author, storyteller, short fiction writer, children’s serial novelist.

Elizabeth Jane Pennock Tallman (14 Jul 1841 – 07 Mar 1941 | Ossian NY – Parker CO) writer, historian, business owner, early Colorado pioneer settler.

Kate M. Gordon (14 Jul 1861 – 24 Aug 1932 | New Orleans LA – New Orleans LA) suffragist, civic leader, periodical editor, co-founded Equal Rights Association, organizer / president Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference.

Florence Bascom (14 Jul 1862 – 18 Jun 1945 | Williamstown MA – Williamstown MA) geologist, essayist, petrography expert / innovator, first woman hired by United States Geological Survey.

Gertrude Buck (14 Jul 1871 – 08 Jan 1922 | Kalamazoo MI – Poughkeepsie NY) poet, playwright, essayist, professor, rhetorician, textbook author, Christian Scientist.

30 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth [Eliza] Kortright Monroe (30 Jun 1768 – 23 Sep 1830 | New York, British America – Richmond VA) US First Lady / Hostess, world traveler, political activist, aka La Belle Américaine, White House social customs advocate / innovator.

Mabel Cratty (30 Jun 1868 – 27 Feb 1928 | Bellaire OH – New York NY) writer, teacher, YWCA activist / administrator, women’s rights advocate.

Louise Pound (30 Jun 1872 – 27 Jun 1958 | Lincoln NE – Lincoln NE) author, athlete, feminist, folklorist, professor.

Lydia Jane Roberts (30 Jun 1879 – 28 May 1965 | Hope Township MI – Rio Piedras PR) author, nutritionist, home economics pioneer, vitamin / mineral RDA innovator.

Bertha Pitts Campbell (30 Jun 1889 – 02 Apr 1990 | Winfield KS – Seattle WA) educator, suffragist, civil rights activist, founding member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.