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.

23 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Anne Elizabeth McDowell (23 Jun 1826 – 30 Sep 1901 | Smyrna DE – Drexel Hill PA) editor, journalist, publisher, founded Woman’s Advocate weekly newspaper, founded McDowell Free Library for Women for workers at Wanamaker’s Department Store.

Agnes Dean Abbat (23 Jun 1847 – 01 Jan 1917 | New York NY – New York NY) artist, teacher, watercolorist, floral still life / landscape / coastal scene painter, second women elected to the American Water Color Society.

Louise Howland King Cox (23 Jun 1865 – 11 Dec 1945 | San Francisco CA – Windham CT) woodcarver, photographer, stained glass artist, children’s portrait painter.

Mabel Rivers Landrum Torrey (23 Jun 1886 – 01 Apr 1974 | Sterling CO – Ames IA) sculptor, ceramicist, children’s figure specialist, commissioned public sculptor.

Sarah Van Hoosen Jones (23 Jun 1892 – 1972 | Stony Creek MI – Rochester MI) author, breeder, civic leader, genetic researcher, first US female PhD in Animal Genetics.

22 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Emily Austin Perry (22 Jun 1795 – 15 Aug 1851 | Austinville VA – Jones Creek TX) pioneer, heiress, font innovator, religious / educational philanthropist.

Caroline Wells Healey Dall (22 Jun 1822 – 17 Dec 1912 | Boston MA – Washington DC) author, feminist, reformer, club woman, Transcendentalist.

Kate Mason Rowland (22 Jun 1840 – 28 Jun 1916 | Detroit MI – Richmond VA) editor, author, historian, biographer, genealogist, historic preservationist, charter member of United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Harriett Mulford Stone Lothrop (22 Jun 1844 – 02 Aug 1924 | New Haven CT – San Francisco CA) aka Margaret Sidney, publisher, literary hostess, children’s fiction author, historical preservationist, Children of the American Revolution founder / facilitator.

Caroline Love Goodwin O’Day (22 Jun 1869 – 04 Jan 1943 | Perry GA – Rye NY) artist, politician, school board president, third woman / first NY Democratic Congresswoman, New York State Board of Social Welfare Commissioner.

11 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Letitia Tyler Semple (11 May 1821 – 28 Dec 1907 | Cedar Grove Plantation VA – Baltimore MD) founder / principal Eclectic Institute for Young Women, White House hostess for father President John Tyler.

Caroline Clement [Carroll] Watson Rankin (11 May 1864 – 13 Aug 1945 | Marquette MI – Marquette MI) reporter, novelist, short story writer.

Harriet Quimby (11 May 1875 – 01 Jul 1912 | Arcadia MI – Quincy MA) aviator, journalist, drama critic, screenwriter.

Alma Gluck Zimbalist (11 May 1884 – 27 Oct 1938 | Iasi RO – Manhattan NY) editor, operatic soprano, née Reba Feinsohn.

Martha Graham (11 May 1894 – 01 Apr 1991 | Allegheny PA – New York NY) dancer, choreographer, autobiographical author, aka The Dancer of the Century.