18 Feb | Women.Words.Work

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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.

11 Feb | Women.Words.Work

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Jarena Lee (11 Feb 1783 – 1855 | Cape May NJ – New Jersey US) memoirist, religious writer, autobiographical author, pioneering female traveling African Methodist Episcopal [AME] minister.

Lydia Maria Child (11 Feb 1802 – 20 Oct 1880 | Medford MA – Wayland MA) author, activist, novelist, journalist, Unitarian, abolitionist, children’s book writer.

Adelaide Rossiter Judd (11 Feb 1821 – 19 Dec 1904 | Torrington CT – Seneca Falls NY) political family member.

Minerva Amanda Sanders (11 Feb 1837 – 20 Mar 1912 | Marblehead MA – Pawtucket RI) teacher, first librarian of the Pawtucket Free Public Library, pioneer library services innovator.

Maria Louise Eve (11 Feb 1842 – 05 Apr 1900 | Augusta GA – Augusta GA) poet, prose writer, educator, social reformer.

08 Feb | Women.Words.Work

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Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson (08 Feb 1825 – 22 Dec 1911 | Boston MA – Malden MA) poet, author, mill girl, bobbin doffer, social activist, suffragist leader.

Cornelia Hancock (08 Feb 1840 – 31 Dec 1927 | Hancock’s Bridge NJ – Atlantic City NJ) author, memoirist, social activist, Civil War Union nurse, educator, school founder.

Katherine [Kate] O’Flaherty Chopin (08 Feb 1850 – 22 Aug 1904 | St Louis MO – St Louis MO) novelist, feminist, short story writer.

Kate Thomson Cory (08 Feb 1861 – 12 Jun 1958 | Waukegan IL – Prescott AZ) painter, photographer, lived in / focused on Hopi villages in Southwest USA.

Maud Slye (08 Feb 1869 – 17 Sep 1954 | Minneapolis MN – Chicago IL) poet, musician, pathologist, cancer researcher, 1923 Nobel Laureate.

11 Dec | Women’s Words & Works

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Leonora Sansay (11 Dec 1773 – 12 Nov 1821 | Philadelphia PA – Newent UK) novelist, painter, memoirist, political / literary figure, aka Mary Hassal, née Honora Davern, artificial flower-making business owner.

Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier (11 Dec 1813 – 26 Apr 1888 | Plainfield NJ – New York NY) feminist, suffragist, physician, founded / directed New York Medical College and Hospital for Women, president of New York City Suffrage League and National Women’s Suffrage Association.

Mary Belle King Sherman (11 Dec 1862 – 15 Jan 1935 | Albion NY – Denver CO) author, club woman, national park activist, aka The National Park Lady.

Annie Jump Cannon (11 Dec 1863 – 13 Apr 1941 | Dover DE – Cambridge MA) author, astronomer, pioneer cataloguer / developer of contemporary stellar classification.

Louise Brown Leslie (11 Dec 1869 – 07 Oct 1948 | Perry ME – Detroit MI) editor, journalist, women’s advice columnist, pen name: Nancy Brown, aka Dear Nancy.

17 Nov | Women’s Words & Works

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Eliza Woodson Burhans Farnham (17 Nov 1815 – 15 Dec 1846 | Rensselaerville NY – New York NY) novelist, feminist, abolitionist, women’s prison reform activist, first female warden of Sing Sing Prison.

Achsa W. Sprague (17 Nov 1827 – 06 Jul 1862 | Plymouth Notch VT – Plymouth Notch VT) poet, essayist, medium, lecturer, Spiritualist, abolitionist, suffragist.

Genie M. Boyce Smith (17 Nov 1852 – unknown | Vermont US – Dubuque IA) poet, author, novelist, publisher, pen names: Kit Clover and Maude Meredith.

Sophie Adelaide Radford de Meissner (17 Nov 1854 – 17 Apr 1954 | Morristown NJ – Washington DC) author, socialite, playwright, Spiritualist, Red Cross nurse [1905] Russo-Japanese War.

30 Oct | Women’s Words & Works

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Temperance [Tempe] Wick Tuttle (30 Oct 1758 – 26 Apr 1822 | Mendham NJ – Morristown NJ) American Revolutionary War folk figure.

Sarah Ewing Hall (30 Oct 1761 – 08 Apr 1830 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) Christian literature poet, educator, essayist, Bible translator and commentator.

Mary Austin Holley (30 Oct 1784 – 31 Jul 1827 | New Haven CT – New Orleans LA) settler, explorer, historical author.

Rebecca Cromwell Rouse (30 Oct 1799 – 23 Dec 1887 | Salem MA – Cleveland OH) social reformer, women’s activist / advocate.

21 Oct | Women’s Words & Works

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Caroline Carmichael McIntosh Fillmore (21 Oct 1813 – 11 Aug 1881 | Morristown NJ – Buffalo NY) heiress, eccentric, second wife of US President Millard Fillmore.

Martha [Mattie] Whitney Summerhayes (21 Oct 1844 – 12 May 1926 | Nantucket MA – Schenectady NY) memoirist, travel writer, world traveler, pioneer Army wife, autobiographical author.

Margaret Eleanor Theodora Addison (21 Oct 1868 – 18 Dec 1940 | Horning’s Mills ON – Toronto ON) diarist, educator, first dean of women at Victoria College, Ontario.

Josephine Lovett (21 Oct 1877 – 17 Sep 1958 | San Francisco CA – Rancho Santa Fe CA) stage actress, adapter, screenwriter, riding club co-founder.

Julia Lynch Olin (21 Oct 1882 – 11 Mar 1961 | Glen Cove NY – New York NY) author, publisher, member of Bahá’í faith [later expelled], autobiographical author, co-founded New History Society NYC, formed educational association / monthly magazine The Caravan of East and West.

05 Oct | Women’s Words & Works

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Rebecca Mann Pennell Dean (05 Oct 1821 – 05 Mar 1890 | Utica NY – New York NY) artist, professor, Antioch College co-founder.

Sara J. Hatcher Duncan (05 Oct 1869 – 18 Jul 1906 | Cahaba AL – Selma AL) author, schoolteacher, African-American social activist, founded Missionary Searchlight newspaper, president of African Methodist Episcopal Church’s Women’s Home and Foreign Missionary Society.

Elizabeth Coleman White (05 Oct 1871 – 11 Nov 1954 | New Lisbon NJ – Whitesbog NJ) agricultural specialist, child care / child labor educational activist, co-developer of commercialized cultivated blueberry, first female in American Cranberry Association, organized New Jersey Blueberry Cooperative Association.

Berenice Crumb Wyer (05 Oct 1873 – 29 Jan 1960 | St. Louis MO – Brookline MA) pianist, composer, lecturer, art song writer, composed for piano / organ / violin.

Belle Linder Moskowitz (05 Oct 1877 – 02 Jan 1933 | Harlem NY – New York NY) social worker / reformer, press agent / political advisor, women’s rights activist / organizer.

23 Sep | Women’s Words & Works

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Sarah Jane Lippincott (23 Sep 1823 – 20 Apr 1904 | Pompey NY – New Rochelle NY) poet, editor, novelist, essayist, journalist, correspondent, pseudonym Grace Greenwood.

Victoria Claflin Woodhull Martin (23 Sep 1838 – 09 Jun 1927 | Homer OH – Bredon UK) feminist, journalist, suffragist leader, spiritualist healer, women’s rights activist, first female candidate for US Presidency, first woman to found weekly newspaper, first woman to own Wall Street brokerage firm.

Helen Almira Shafer (23 Sep 1839 – 20 Jan 1894 | Newark NJ – Wellesley MA) mathematician, mathematics professor, president of Wellesley College.

Emily Warren Roebling (23 Sep 1843 – 28 Feb 1903 | Cold Spring NY – Trenton NJ) attorney, essayist, social activist, women’s rights advocate, autodidact civil engineer, key figure / facilitator in Brooklyn Bridge completion.

Ellen Amanda Hayes (23 Sep 1851 – 27 Oct 1930 | Granville OH – Wellesley MA) author, novelist, biographer, astronomer, Socialist, suffragist, radical activist, temperance advocate, outspoken social commentator, mathematician, women’s educational rights activist, one of first six females in New York Mathematical Society [later the American Mathematical Society].

16 Sep | Women’s Words & Works

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Mary Wiseman See (16 Sep 1854 – 31 Jul 1939 | Ontario CA – Ontario CA) candymaker, businesswoman.

Miriam Elizabeth Benjamin (16 Sep 1861 – 1947 | Charleston SC – Boston MA) teacher, inventor, patented Gong and Signal Chair for hotels, second black woman to receive US Patent [note: found no images of the inventor herself; image used is one of an unidentified 19th c. black woman].

Eva Lawrence Watson-Schütze (16 Sep 1867 – 01 May 1935 | Jersey City NJ – Chicago IL) painter, photographer, Photo-Secession movement co-founder.

Clara Edith Work Ayres (16 Sep 1880 – 17 May 1917 | Venice Township OH – onboard USS Mongolia, Atlantic Ocean) nurse, WWI US Red Cross nurse, grocery store owner / manager, one of first two US military women killed in WWI [Helen Burnett Wood the other].

Daisy Ann Peterkin (16 Sep 1884 – 12 Aug 1952 | St. Louis MO – Miami Beach FL) vaudeville toe-dancer, Ziegfield Follies dance member, aka Mademoiselle Dazie.