18 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Edna Dean Proctor (18 Sep 1829 – 18 Dec 1923 | Henniker NH – Framingham MA) poet, author, short fiction writer, known as a master of pathos.

Lucy Martin Donnelly (18 September 1870 – 03 August 1948 | Ithaca NY – Bryn Mawr PA) poet, author, educator, letter correspondent.

Margarete Muehsam-Edelheim (18 Sep 1891 – 25 May 1975 | Berlin DEU- New York NY) editor, lawyer, journalist, women’s rights activist, emigrated from Nazi Germany, founded Leo Baeck Institute in New York.

Agnes George de Mille (18 Sep 1905 – 07 Oct 1993 | New York NY – New York NY) author, dancer, memoirist, master teacher, choreographer.

Edna Dean Proctor (18 Sep 1829 – 18 Dec 1923 | Henniker NH – Framingham MA) poet, author, short fiction writer, known as a master of pathos.

05 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Hannah Chaplin Conant (05 Sep 1809 – 18 Feb 1865 | Danvers MA – Brooklyn NY) editor, translator, Biblical scholar.

Anna Rice Cooke (05 Sep 1853 – 08 Aug 1934 | Oahu HI – Honolulu HI) art collector, patron of arts, founded Honolulu Museum of Art.

Emilie Baker Loring (05 Sep 1866 – 13 Mar 1951 | Boston MA – Wellesley MA) prolific romance novelist.

Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (05 Sep 1867 – 27 Dec 1944 | Henniker NH – New York NY) pianist, composer, first successful large-scale artistic female music composer.

Frances Daisy Emery Allen (05 Sep 1876 – 07 Dec 1958 | Kaufman County TX – Fort Worth TX) pioneering female physician, first female medical school graduate in Texas, one of first female physicians to practice in Tarrant County.

28 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth Ann Seton (28 Aug 1774 – 04 Jan 1821 | New York NY – Emmitsburg MD) widow, mother, memoirist, sainted religious, Sisters of Charity founder.

Lucy Webb Hayes (28 Aug 1831 – 25 Jun 1889 | Chillicothe OH – Fremont OH) US Presidential First Lady, social activist, public speaker, temperance leader, aka Lemonade Lucy.

Clara Erskine Clement Waters (28 Aug 1834 – 29 Feb 1916 | St Louis MO – Boston MA) biographer, translator, world traveler, travel writer, arts history author.

Maria Leopoldina Burns (28 Aug 1855 – 03 Jun 1942 | Utica NY – Honolulu HI) nun, member of Sisters of St. Francis of Syracuse, co-worker and biographer of Marianne Cope, last Catholic sister to serve with Father Damien in Hawaii.

Alice Chapin Ferris (28 Aug 1857 – 05 Jul 1934 | Keene NH – Keene NH) heiress, playwright, silent film actress, suffragist active in England.

25 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Jane Lathrop Stanford (25 Aug 1828 – 28 Feb 1905 | Albany NY – Oahu HI) arts activist, educational leader, women’s rights advocate, Stanford University co-founder, allegedly murdered by accumulated strychnine poisoning.

Chloe Annette Buckel (25 Aug 1833 – 17 Aug 1912 | Warsaw NY – Oakland CA) Civil War nurse, pioneering surgeon / physician, one of the first female doctors in California, founded Hospital for Women and Children in San Francisco.

Ellen Goodell Smith (25 Aug 1835 – 03 Nov 1906 | Belchertown MA – Brooklyn NY) author, teacher, vegetarian, physician, hydrotherapist, co-founded first hydropathic sanitarium in St. Paul MN.

Martha Hale Shackford (25 Aug 1875 – 11 Jan 2013 | Dover NH – Wellesley MA) poet, editor, author, textbook writer, professor of English literature.

Louise Emerson Ronnebeck (25 Aug 1901 – 17 Feb 1980 | Philadelphia PA – Denver CO) painter, teacher, New Deal / WPA muralist, professor of drawing and painting.

24 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Ann White Johnson (24 Aug 1808 – 05 May 1872 | Westmoreland NH – New York NY) abolitionist, lecturer on physiology, matron of Sing Sing Prison, prison reform advocate, founding member of New England Non-Resistance Society.

Eliza Jane Trimble Thompson (24 Aug 1816 – 03 Nov 1905 | Hillsboro OH – Hillsboro OH) aka Mother Thompson, non-violent temperance Visitation Bands leader, founded Ohio Women’s Crusade Against Alcohol [basis for Women’s Christian Temperance Union].

Marie Brose Tepe Leonard (24 Aug 1834 – 14 May 1901 | Bretagne FR – Pittsburgh PA) Civil War vivandière, aka Fearless French Mary, wounded / survived war but died by suicide years later.

Laura Drake Gill (24 Aug 1860 – 03 Feb 1926 | Chesterville ME – Berea KY) professor, administrator, college president, educational reformer.

Mary Arizona [Zonia] Baber (24 Aug 1862 – 10 Jan 1956 | Clark IL – Chicago IL) geologist, feminist, anti-racist, geographer, anti-imperialist, textbook author, desk designer, geography instruction innovator, peace monument historian, co-founded Geography Society of Chicago, member of WILPF [Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.

10 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Sargeant Neal Gove Nichols (10 Aug 1810 – 30 May 1884 | Goffstown NH – London UK) writer, lecturer, educator, suffragist, visionary, vegetarian, health reformer, autobiographer, hydrotherapy advocate, women’s rights activist.

Eliza Frances Andrews (10 Aug 1840 – 21 Jan 1931 | Washington GA – Rome GA) diarist, botanist, essayist, educator, memoirist, textbook author, magazine writer.

Mary Artemesia Lathbury (10 Aug 1841 – 20 Oct 1913 | Manchester NY – East Orange NJ) hymnist, children’s book author, religious periodical writer.

Gertrude Bloede (10 Aug 1845 – 14 Aug 1945 | Dresden DEU – Baldwin NY) German-born American poet, pen name: Stuart Sterne.

Mary [C. C.] Carroll Craig Bradford (10 Aug 1856 – 15 Jan 1938 | Brooklyn NY – Denver CO) politician, suffragist, Colorado State Superintendent of Public Instruction, first female delegate to 1908 Democratic National Convention, president: National Education Association, Colorado Federation of Women’s Clubs, and Colorado Springs Equal Suffrage Association.

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.]

16 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Baker Eddy (16 Jul 1821 – 03 Dec 1910 | Bow NH – Chestnut Hill MA) poet, author, spiritual leader, founder / leader of First Church of Christ, Scientist.

Abby Howland Woolsey (16 Jul 1828 – 07 Apr 1893 | Alexandria VA – New York NY) author, Civil War Union nurse, nursing educator, American relief worker.

Augusta Jane Chapin (16 Jul 1836 – 30 Jun 1905 | Lakeville NY – New York NY) author, educator, pioneering Universalist minister, women’s educational advocate, chair of World’s First Religious Parliament, first female on Council of the General Convention of Universalists.

Marietta Holley (16 Jul 1836 – 01 Mar 1926 | Jefferson County NY – Jefferson County NY ) poet, author, satirist, humorist, serial novelist, pen names: Jemyma and Josiah Allen’s Wife.

Clara Shortridge Foltz (16 Jul 1849 – 02 Sep 1934 | Lafayette IN – Los Angeles CA) lawyer, journalist, suffragist, public lecturer, women’s rights legislative activist.

11 Jul | Herstorical.Reflections

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Margaret [Peggy] Shippen Arnold (11 Jul 1760 – 24 Aug 1804 | Philadelphia PA – London UK) Loyalist family member, highest paid British spy during American Revolution, second wife of / co-conspirator with traitor Benedict Arnold.

Jane Aitken (11 Jul 1764 – 29 Aug 1832 | Paisley SCT – Germantown PA) printer, publisher, bookbinder, bookseller, first US woman to print English translation of Christian Bible.

Susan Bogert Warner (11 Jul 1819 – 17 Mar 1885 | New York NY – Highland Falls NY) novelist, hymnist, teacher, religious / children’s fiction author, aka Elizabeth Wetherel.

Phebe W. Sudlow (11 Jul 1831 – 08 Jun 1922 | Poughkeepsie NY – Davenport IA) autodidact, pioneer educator, free public library funder, first female US public school principal / school superintendent, first female president of Iowa School Teachers’ Association, first female professor of University of Iowa.

Katherine Abbott [Kate] Sanborn (11 Jul 1839 – 09 Jul 1917 | Hanover NH – Medway MA) poet, author, teacher, humorist, memoirist, public speaker, calendar publisher, children’s school founder, newspaper / magazine correspondent.

29 Jun | Herstorical.Reflections

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Hannah Maria Libby Smith (29 Jun 1828 – 21 Sep 1906 | Ossipee NH – Provo UT) bobbin doffer, rug weaver, needleworker, historical figure, Mormon pioneer / educator.

Celia Laighton Thaxter (29 Jun 1835 – 25 Aug 1894 | Portsmouth NH – Appledore Island ME) poet, gardener, short story writer.

Julia Clifford Lathrop (29 Jun 1858 – 15 Apr 1932 | Rockford IL – Rockford IL) author, social worker, educational reformer, mother / child rights activist, Director US Children’s Bureau, first-ever female to head federal US bureau.

Emma Azalia Hackley (29 Jun 1867 – 13 Dec 1922 | Murfreesboro TN – Detroit MI) singer, author, lecturer, musician, child prodigy, school teacher, music publisher, civic / social / civil rights activist, founding executive director Colored Women’s League, founded Hackley Choral Society and Voice Normal Institute.

Elizabeth Lehman Myers (29 Jun 1869 – 06 Jan 1936 | Bethlehem PA – Bethlehem PA) historical author / essayist.