25 Jul | Women’s Words & Works

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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.]

21 Jul | Women’s Words & Works

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Mary Anna Morrison Jackson (21 Jul 1831 – 24 Mar 1915 | Lincoln NC – Charlotte NC) author, memoirist, military / political wife, aka Widow of the Confederacy.

Henrietta Maria Morse Chamberlain King (21 Jul 1832 – 31 Mar 1925 | Boonville MO – Kingsville TX) Texas rancher, philanthropist, public school builder.

Mary Foote Henderson (21 Jul 1842 – 16 Jul 1931 | Seneca Falls NY – Bar Harbor ME) author, suffragist, art collector, social activist, community developer, temperance leader.

Myra Horner Camden Atkinson (21 Jul 1844 – 13 Apr 1925 | Lumberport WV – Clarksburg WV) First Lady of Virginia, genealogist / family historian.

Blanche Willis Howard von Teuffel (21 Jul 1847 – 07 Oct 1898 | Bangor ME – Munich DEU) pianist, novelist.

05 Jul | Women’s Words & Works

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Hannah Clark Johnston Bailey (05 Jul 1839 – 23 Oct 1923 | Cornwall-on-Hudson NY – Portland ME) writer, lecturer, publisher, peace activist, pamphleteer, National Council of Women treasurer, Maine Women’s Suffrage Association president.

Frances Christine Tiernan (05 Jul 1846 – 24 Mar 1920 | Salisbury NC – Salisbury NC) author, novelist, aka Christian Reid.

Mary Augusta Jordan (05 Jul 1855 – 14 Apr 1941 | Ironton OH – New Haven CT) editor, author, lecturer, librarian, professor.

Wanda Landowska (05 Jul 1879 – 16 Aug 1959 | Warsaw PO – Lakeville CT) author, harpsichordist, musicologist, piano pedagogue, performing artist, first person to record Bach’s Goldberg Variations [1933].

Marjorie Stinson (05 Jul 1895 – 15 Apr 1975 | Fort Payne AL – Washington DC) aviation pioneer, aeronautical draftswoman, ninth female licensed US pilot, aviation training school co-owner / instructor, aka The Flying Schoolgirl.

17 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Penelope Pagett Barker (17 Jun 1728 – 1796 | Edenton NC – Edenton NC) patriot, political activist, hosted the Edenton Tea Party / boycott of British goods.

Susan La Flesche Picotte (17 Jun 1865 – 18 Sep 1915 | Omaha Reservation NE – Walthill NE) doctor, reformer, children’s health activist, first female Native American trained physician, founded first hospital on Omaha reservation.

Mary Inda Hussey (17 Jun 1876 – 20 Jun 1952 | New Vienna OH – Andover MA) author, essayist, linguist, translator, professor, Assyriologist.

Mary Susan James Barr (17 Jun 1879 – 11 Oct 1935 | Nashville TN – Kansas City MO) folk figure, daughter of Zerelda Mimms and outlaw Jesse James.

Margaret Fuller Boos (17 Jun 1892 – 20 Aug 1978 | Beatrice NE – Denver CO) hiker, geologist, science teacher, professor of geology, fieldwork focus on pegmatite geology, aka Petroluem’s First Lady, first female ranger-naturalist at Rocky Mountain National Park.

20 May | Women’s Words & Works

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Dolley Payne Todd Madison (20 May 1768 – 12 Jul 1849 | North Carolina Province, British America – Washington DC) US Presidential First Lady, memoirist, letter correspondent.

Mary Ramsey Lemons Wood (20 May 1787 – 01 Jan 1908 | Knoxville TN – Hillsboro OR) pioneer, died as oldest person at that time (disputed), aka Oldest Methodist in the World, First Mother Queen of Oregon Pioneers.

Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell (20 May 1825 – 05 Nov 1921 | Henrietta NY – Elizabeth NJ) author, Unitarian pastor, women’s rights activist, first US female ordained minister.

Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (20 May 1851 – 09 Jul 1926 | Lenox MA – New York NY) author, religious sister, memoirist, social worker, aka Mother Mary Alphonsa.

28 Apr | Women’s Words & Works

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Meriva M. Carpenter (28 Apr 1802 – 24 Jul 1887 | Ellington CT – Homer NY) landscape / miniature portrait artist.

Caroline Shawk Brooks (28 Apr 1840 – 20 May 1913 | Cincinnati OH – St Louis MO) farmer, pioneer feminist, Centennial Exposition butter sculptor.

Julia Burnelle Smade [Bernie] Babcock (28 Apr 1868 – 14 Jun 1962 | Union OH – Petit Jean AR) poet, editor, essayist, novelist, satirist, illustrator, newspaper writer, museum founder.

Frances Reed Elliott Davis (28 Apr 1883 – 02 May 1965 | Shelby NC – Mount Clemens MI) first African-American nurse officially admitted to the American Red Cross Nursing Service.

Edith Summers Kelley (28 Apr 1884 – 09 Jun 1956 | Toronto ON – Los Gatos CA) Canadian-born American novelist.

10 Apr | Women’s Words & Works

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Louise Chandler Moulton (10 Apr 1835 – 10 Aug 1908 | Pomfret CT – Boston MA) poet, critic, short-story writer, prose fiction author, literary salon hostess.

Lucy Higgs Nichols (10 Apr 1838 – 25 Jan 1915 | Halifax County NC – New Albany IN) escaped slave, aka Miss Lucy, Civil War Union nurse, sole female honorary member of Grand Army of the Republic.

Mary Emilee Holmes (10 Apr 1850 – 13 Feb 1906 | Chester NY – Rockford IL) geologist, educator, first female fellow of the Geological Society of America, co-founded seminary for young black women.

Helene Carola Nancy Sanford Dow (10 Apr 1874 – 08 Aug 1962 | Brussels BE – Derby CT) author, travel writer, aka Machesa di Poggio.

Margaret [Daisy] Sutermeister (10 Apr 1875 – 30 May 1951 | Milton MA – Milton MA) glass-plate photographer, plant nursery manager, a few years after her death 1800+ photographic works discovered stored in her barn.

07 Apr | Women’s Words & Works

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Tabitha Gilman Tenney (07 Apr 1762 – 02 May 1837 | Exeter NH – Exeter NH) author, novelist.

Mary Elizabeth Sigler Bunn (07 Apr 1788 – 31 Jul 1833 | Derry Township PA – Hunterdon County NJ) Married prosperous farm owner, member of well-to-do industrialist’s family.

Jane Evans Elliot (07 Apr 1820 – 05 Dec 1886 | Fayetteville NC – Ellerslie Plantation NC) Civil War and post-war diarist, three-volume diaries spanning four decades.

Anna T. Jeanes (07 Apr 1822 – 24 Sep 1907 | Philadelphia PA – Germantown PA) Quaker, philanthropist, educational activist, founding director of The Jeanes Fund [originally The Negro Rural School Fund].

Marjory Stoneman Douglas (07 Apr 1890 – 14 May 1998 | Minneapolis MN – Coconut Grove FL) writer, feminist, journalist, environmentalist.

10 Mar | Women’s Words & Works

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Sarah Walter Chandler Coates (10 Mar 1829 – 24 Jul 1897 | Kennett Square PA – Kansas City MO) Quaker, suffragist, social / political activist, women’s club founder / leader, aka The Queen of Quality Hill.

Sarah Malinda [Sam] Pritchard Blalock (10 Mar 1839 – 09 Mar 1901 | Avery County NC – Watauga County NC) US Civil War female soldier, fought for both North and South.

Josephine [Ina] Donna Coolbrith (10 Mar 1841 – 29 Feb 1928 | Nauvoo IL – Berkeley CA) poet, writer, librarian, first-ever US State Poet Laureate.

Hallie Quinn Brown (10 Mar 1850 – 16 Sep 1949 | Pittsburgh PA – Wilberforce OH) writer, activist, educator, abolitionist, elocutionist, humanitarian, African-American, women’s rights activist.

Mary Mills Patrick (10 Mar 1850 – 25 Feb 1940 | Canterbury NH – Palo Alto CA) author, scholar, college president, autobiographer, earned PhD at Universitiy of Bern.

09 Mar | Women’s Words & Works

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Mary T. Martin Sloop (09 Mar 1873 – 13 Jan 1962 | Davidson NC – Crossnore NC) physician, educational reformer, autobiographical author, Crossnore School founding director, established women’s Weaving Room, funded social works by selling used clothing.

Beatrice Alexander Behrman (09 Mar 1895 – 03 Oct 1990 | Brooklyn NY – Palm Beach FL) dollmaker, entrepreneur, aka Madame Alexander.

Thelma Given (09 Mar 1896 – 25 Dec 1977 | Columbus OH – Boston MA) violinist, aka Little Miss Given.

Clara Reisenberg Rockmore (09 Mar 1911 – 10 May 1998 | Vilnius LT – New York NY) violin prodigy, pioneer virtuoso performer of electronic musical instrument theremin.

Marjorie Craig Crowley (09 Mar 1912 – 20 Feb 2003 | Bangor ME – Naples FL) self-help / fitness author, director of Elizabeth Arden Salon of Exercise.