19 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Tenney Gray (19 Jun 1833 – 11 Oct 1904 | Liberty PA – Kansas City KS) poet, editor, clubwoman, suffragist, fundraiser, philanthropist, cookbook publisher, editorial writer, aka Mother of the Woman’s Culture Club in Kansas.

Mary Sibbet Copley Thaw (19 Jun 1843 – 09 Jun 1929 | near Kittanning PA – Pittsburgh PA) heiress, philanthropist, funded archaeology research, female archaeologist advocate.

Mary Roxanna Platt Hatch (19 Jun 1848 – 28 Nov 1935 | Stratford NH – Santa Monica CA) editor, author, playwright, club woman, magazine writer, pen-name Mabel Percy and Mary R. P. Hatch.

Elizabeth Louise Clarke [Pyrnelle] Parnell (19 Jun 1850 – 26 Aug 1907 | Perry County AL – Birmingham AL) children’s / young adult novelist.

Elizabeth [Bessie] Marbury (19 Jun 1856 – 22 Jan 1933 | New York NY – New York NY) lesbian, literary agent, pioneering theatrical producer, modern commercial theatre business methods innovator.

07 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Susan Elizabeth Blow (07 Jun 1843 – 27 Mar 1916 | St Louis MO – New York NY) author, educator, kindergarten founder, children’s education activist, aka The Mother of American Kindergarten.

Alice Luann Moore Hubbard (07 Jun 1861 – 07 May 1915 | Wales NY – off the coast of Ireland) writer, feminist, original Roycrofter, lost at sea onboard torpedoed ocean liner Lusitania.

Alice Van Vechten Brown (07 Jun 1862 – 16 Oct 1949 | Hanover NH – Middletown NJ) author, art educator, art historian, created first US courses in museum training [1911] and modern art [1927] .

Alice Nielsen (07 Jun 1872 – 08 Mar 1943 | Nashville TN – Far Rockaway NY) operatic lyric soprano.

Carmela Anna Ponselle (07 Jun 1887 – 13 Jun 1977 | Schenectady NY – New York NY) operatic mezzo-soprano.

19 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah Miriam Peale (19 May 1800 – 04 Feb 1885 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) still-life / portrait painter.

Margaret Junkin Preston (19 May 1820 – 28 Mar 1897 | Milton PA – Baltimore MD) poet, essayist, memoirist, Confederate, blind later in life.

Fidelia Bridges (19 May 1834 – 14 May 1923 | Salem MA – Canaan CT) visual artist, plein-air painter, watercolorist.

Catharine [Kate] Furbish (19 May 1834 – 06 Dec 1931 | Exeter NH – Brunswick ME) botanist, illustrator, watercolorist, co-founded Maine Botanical Society.

Mary Clare de Graffenried (19 May 1849 – 26 Apr 1921 | Macon GA – Washington DC) author, social investigator / reformer.

17 May | Herstorical.Reflections

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Annie [Narna] Payson Call (17 May 1853 – 02 Feb 1940 | Arlington MA – Waltham MA) author, healer, librarian, Swedenborgian, writer for Ladies Home Journal.

Mary Devens (17 May 1857 – 13 Mar 1920 | Ware MA – Cambridge MA) pictorial photographer, Photo-Secession member.

Helen May Butler Young (17 May 1867 – 16 Jun 1957 | Keene NH – Covington KY) bandmaster, aka The Female Sousa, first all-women brass band leader.

Dorothy Gibson (17 May 1889 – 17 Feb 1946 | Hoboken NJ – Paris, France) actress, scriptwriter, Titanic survivor, acted in first Titanic film, alleged WWII intelligence operative.

Louise Crenshaw Ray (17 May 1890 – 23 Oct 1956 | Butler AL – Birmingham AL) poet.

20 Apr | Herstorical.Reflections

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Cynthia Farrar (20 Apr 1795 – 25 Jan 1862 | Marlborough NH – Ahmednagar IND) educator, pioneering single / unMarried American female foreign missionary in India.

Matilda Vanderpoel (20 Apr 1862 – 21 Oct 1950 | Haarlemmermeer NL – Chicago IL) artist, social activist, portrait / landscape painter, Dutch-born American, teacher at Colorado Chautauqua, co-founded Blue Bird Cottage / Blue Bird Lodge / Holiday House Association ‘to conserve the health of tired working women’.

Helen Dortch Longstreet (20 Apr 1863 – 03 May 1963 | Carnesville GA – Milledgeville GA) postmistress, aka The Fighting Lady, Confederate memorialist, civil rights activist, environmental preservationist.

Mary Agnes Meara Chase (20 Apr 1869 – 24 Sep 1963 | Iroquois County IL – Bethesda MD) author, botanist, feminist, typesetter, illustrator, proofreader, grasses specialist, women’s activist.

Carmelita Chase Hinton (20 Apr 1890 – 16 Jan 1983 | Omaha NE – Concord MA) farmer, gardener, visionary, adventurer, progressive educator, founding director of The Putney School in Putney, Vermont.

19 Apr | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah Kemble Knight (19 Apr 1666 – 25 Sep 1727 | Boston MA – New London CT) diarist, teacher, innkeeper, shopkeeper, traveled from Boston to New York on horseback / kept ongoing journey of the journey.

Sarah George Bagley Duro (19 Apr 1806 – 23 Jun 1883 | Candia NH – Brooklyn NY) labor leader / organizer, newspaper editor / publisher, women’s rights activist / advocate, co-founded Lowell Female Labor Reform Association (LFLRA).

Calista H. Vinton (19 Apr 1807 – 18 Dec 1864 | Willington CT – Rangoon, BUR [now Myanmar]) Baptist missionary, teacher, preacher, mission school administrator.

Mary Louise Booth (19 Apr 1831 – 05 Mar 1889 | Yaphank NY – New York NY) writer, author, historian, magazine editor, French / English translator.

Ella Broadus Robertson (19 Apr 1872 – 05 Dec 1945 | Greenville SC – Louisville KY) nonfiction author.

13 Apr | Herstorical.Reflections

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Julia Amanda Sargent Wood (13 Apr 1825 – 09 Mar 1903 | New London NH – St Cloud MN) poet, author, novelist, newspaper editor, pen name Minnie Mary Lee.

Helen Maria Winslow (13 Apr 1851 – 27 Mar 1938 | Westfield VT – Shirley MA) poet, novelist, journalist, Club Woman, co-founded Daughters of Vermont and New England Women’s Press Association.

Lucy Craft Laney (13 Apr 1854 – 23 Oct 1933 | Macon GA – Augusta GA) educator, school principal, founded first black kindergarten, first children’s school, and first nursing school in Augusta GA.

Sarah Hall Ladd (13 Apr 1860 – 30 Mar 1927 | Somerville MA – Carmel CA) pictorial / landscape photographer, Christian Science movement activist.

Anna Easter Brown (13 Apr 1879 – 05 Mar 1957 | West Orange NJ – Rocky Mount NC) educator, history teacher, one of original founders of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority for female African-American students.

07 Apr | Herstorical.Reflections

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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.

18 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Ann Harris Gay (18 Mar 1828 – 06 Nov 1918 | Jones County GA – Decatur GA) poet, author, diarist, memoirist, American Confederate heroine.

Marilla Marks Young Ricker (18 Mar 1840 – 12 Nov 1920 | New Durham NH – Dover NH) author, attorney, suffragist, free-thinker, humanitarian, women’s rights activist.

Sally Berkeley Nelson Robins (18 Mar 1855 – 04 Feb 1925 | Gloucester County VA – Richmond VA) author, suffragist, genealogist, essayist, historian.

Jennie Harris Oliver (18 Mar 1864 – 03 Jun 1942 | Lowell MI – Oklahoma City OK) poet, Poet Laureate of Oklahoma.

Alice Cushing Donaldson Riley (18 Mar 1867 – 09 Aug 1955 | Morrison IL – Pasadena CA) children’s songs /operas / poetry / lullabies author, Drama League of America innovator.

15 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Harriet [Hattie] E. Wilson (15 Mar 1825 – 28 Jun 1900 | Milford NH – Quincy MA) Spiritualist, public speaker, housekeeper, first recognized female African-American novelist.

Alice Cunningham Fletcher (15 Mar 1838 – 06 Apr 1923 | Havana CU – Washington DC) author, sketch artist, ethnologist, social scientist, anthropologist.

Edith Maud Eaton (15 Mar 1865 – 07 Apr 1914 | Macclesfield UK – Montreal QC) journalist, aka Sui Sin Far, short fiction writer, British-Chinese-Canadian.

Mary Chase Perry Stratton (15 Mar 1867 – 15 Apr 1961 | Hancock MI – Detroit MI) ceramic artist, Pewabic Pottery co-founder, Arts and Crafts Movement member.

Henrietta [Hattie] Kanengeiser Carnegie (15 Mar 1886 – 22 Feb 1956 | Vienna AT – New York NY) milliner, immigrant, entrepreneur, fashion designer / doyenne.