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.

12 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Jane Means Appleton Pierce (12 Mar 1806 – 02 Dec 1863 | Hampton NH – Andover MA) US Presidential First Lady, aka The Shadow of the White House.

Elizabeth Crocker Bowers (12 Mar 1830 – 06 Nov 1895 | Stamford CT – Philadelphia PA) stage actress, theatrical / music academy manager.

Dora Wheeler Keith (12 Mar 1856 – 07 Dec 1940 | New York NY – Brooklyn NY) artist, designer, illustrator, realist painter, aka Mrs. Boudinot Keith.

Alice Harriman Browne (12 Mar 1861 – 24 Dec 1925 | Newport ME – Hollywood CA) poet, editor, novelist, publisher, short story writer, nonfiction author, aka The Only Woman Publisher in the World.

Clara Bowdoin Winthrop (12 Mar 1876 – 15 Mar 1969 | Boston MA – Boston MA) poet, art collector, philanthropist.

10 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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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.

05 Mar | Herstorical.Reflections

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Silvia Dubois (05 Mar 1788 – 27 May 1888 | Sourland Mountain NJ – Sourland Mountain NJ) domestic, fieldworker, freed slave, tavern owner, ferrywoman, oral historian, subject of Silvia Dubois: A Biografy of the Slav who Whipt Her Mistres and Gand Her Fredom by C. W. Larison.

Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie (05 Mar 1819 – 21 Jul 1870 | Bordeaux FR – Twickenham UK) American author, actress, playwright, public reader.

Lucy Larcom (05 Mar 1824 – 17 Apr 1893 | Beverly MA – Boston MA) poet, Rushlight Literary Magazine founder.

Constance Fenimore Woolson (05 Mar 1840 – 24 Jan 1894 | Claremont NH – Venice IT) poet, novelist, travel writer, short story writer.

Harriet Newell Noyes (05 Mar 1844 – 16 Jan 1924 | Guilford Township OH – Seville OH) author, educator, Presbyterian missionary, founded the True Light Middle School / first women’s school in Canton Province in China.

18 Feb | Herstorical.Reflections

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Harriet Farley Dunlevy (18 Feb 1817 – 12 Nov 1907 | Claremont NH – New York NY) editor, writer, social / cultural activist, managed ‘Lowell Offering’ literary magazine published by women textile mill workers.

Ida Husted Harper (18 Feb 1851 – 14 Mar 1931 | Franklin County IN – Washington DC) author, editor, teacher, columnist, journalist, suffragist.

Henrietta Christian Wright (18 Feb 1854 – 13 Dec 1899 | Old Bridge Township NJ – Old Bridge Township NJ) children’s science / history / literature author.

Annie Heloise Abel-Henderson (18 Feb 1873 – 14 Mar 1947 | Fernhurst UK – Aberdeen WA) author, historian, professor, book reviewer.

Mary Williams [Molly] Dewson (18 Feb 1874 – 01 Oct 1962 | Quincy MA – Castine ME) feminist, lesbian, social reformer, political activist.