22 May | Women’s Words & Works

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Charity Bryant (22 May 1777 – 06 Oct 1851 | North Bridgewater MA – Weybridge VT) poet, teacher, focus on acrostic poetry, Boston marriage partner with Sylvia Drake.

Gertrude Jane Hall Denny (22 May 1837 – 05 Aug 1933 | Ten Mile Run NJ – Portland OR) author, Whitman Massacre survivor, wife of US Consul-General to Shanghai, co-importer of first Chinese pheasants to US soil.

Mary Stevenson Cassatt (22 May 1844 – 14 Jun 1926 | Allegheny City PA – Château de Beaufresne FR) painter, printmaker, pioneering American Impressionist.

Bertha Honoré Potter Palmer (22 May 1849 – 05 May 1918 | Louisville KY – Osprey FL) art collector, clubwoman, philanthropist.

Lucy May Stanton (22 May 1875 – 19 Mar 1931 | Atlanta GA – Athens GA) watercolorist, miniature portrait artist, large-scale landscapes / still life painter.

17 May | Women’s Words & Works

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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.

04 May | Women’s Words & Works

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Mary Elizabeth Surratt (04 May 1823 – 07 Jul 1865 | Waterloo MD – Washington DC) boarding house owner / operator, historical / political folk figure, tried as Lincoln assassination co-conspirator, first American female executed by hanging.

Julia Britton Hooks (04 May 1852 – 10 Mar 1942 | Frankfort KY – Memphis TN) pianist, social worker, civil rights leader, juvenile court officer, second female African-American US college graduate, founded Julia Hooks Cottage School and Julia Hooks School of Music.

Mary Ellis Peltz (04 May 1896 – 24 Oct 1981 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, editor, author, music / drama critic, founding editor Opera News magazine.

Joy Bright Hancock (04 May 1898 – 20 Aug 1986 | Wildwood NJ – Bethesda MD) pilot, WAVES activist, early female Naval officer, autobiographical author.

Bernice Mildred Goetz (04 May 1909 – 30 Dec 1958 | Cleveland OH – Brooklyn NY) poet, author, teacher, lecturer, explorer.

13 Apr | Women’s Words & Works

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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.

30 Mar | Women’s Words & Works

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Eliza Grew Jones (30 Mar 1803 – 28 Mar 1838 | Providence RI – Bangkok, Siam [THAI]) memoirist, Biblical historian, American Baptist missionary to Burma and Siam, created first Siamese-English dictionary, invented Romanized script for writing Siamese language.

Ann Sophia Winterbotham Stephens (30 Mar 1810 – 20 Aug 1886 | Derby CT – Newport RI) poet, author, novelist, essayist, magazine editor and founder.

Julia Elizabeth Christiansen Hoffman (30 Mar 1856 – 30 Nov 1934 | Manti UT – Portland OR) artist, arts patron, Arts and Crafts curator / teacher, eponym of Hoffman Gallery at OCAC, first person to walk across Willamette River Bridge, founded Arts and Crafts Society of Portland [later the Oregon College of Art and Craft].

Mary Whiton Calkins (30 Mar 1863 – 26 Feb 1930 | Hartford CT – Newton MA) author, researcher, philosopher, psychologist, autobiographical author, Wellesley professor, earned Harvard PhD but un-awarded because of gender, first female president of American Psychological Association and American Philosophical Association.

Helen Abbot Merrill (30 Mar 1864 – 01 May 1949 | Llewellyn Park NJ – Wellesley MA) educator, mathematician, textbook author.

28 Mar | Women’s Words & Works

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Rhoda Holmes Nicholls (28 Mar 1854 – 07 Sep 1930 | Coventry UK – Stamford CT) English-American, artist, writer, art instructor, oil / watercolor painter.

Minnie Mancelona [Tip] Andress Pratt (28 Mar 1869 – 12 Nov 1962 | Missouri US – Petoskey MI) teacher, namesake of Mancelona MI, early pioneer settler family member.

Grace Gassette (28 Mar 1871 – 1955 | Chicago IL – Woodstock VT) painter, author, sculptor, WWI Honoree, amputee prosthetic / surgical tool inventor, Chicago Women’s Athletic Club founder, aka The Woman Who Remakes Broken Soldiers, American Ambulance Hospital in Paris surgical department organizer.

Anne Douglas Sedgwick (28 Mar 1873 – 19 Jul 1935 | Englewood NJ – Hampstead UK) American-British novelist.

Clara Lemlich Shavelson (28 Mar 1886 – 12 Jul 1982 | Gorodok UA – Los Angeles CA) suffragist, Communist, revolutionary, garment worker, labor organizer, peace / community activist, co-founded ILGWU [International Ladies Garment Workers Union], co-founded UCWW [United Council of Working-Class Women, which became Progressive Women’s Council].

11 Mar | Women’s Words & Works

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Sarah R. Adamson Dolley (11 Mar 1829 – 27 Dec 1909 | Schuylkill Meeting PA – Rochester NY) social reformer, community organizer, women’s rights activist, second US female medical graduate, obstetrician / gynecologist.

Eliza Jane Poitevent Holbrook Nicholson (11 Mar 1843 – 15 Feb 1896 | Hancock County MS – New Orleans LA) poet, lyricist, journalist, aka Pearl Rivers, newspaper manager.

Matilda [Tillie] Pierce Alleman (11 Mar 1848 – 15 Mar 1914 | Gettysburg PA – Philadelphia PA) memoirist, Civil War activist / participant / observer.

Helen Strong Carter (11 Mar 1866 – 28 May 1945 | Rochester NY – San Francisco CA) philanthropist, social activist, First Lady of Territory of Hawaii, established Strong-Carter Dental Clinic at Palama Settlement HI / Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester NY.

Beatrice Winser (11 Mar 1869 – 14 Sep 1947 | Newark NJ – Newark NJ) librarian, library / museum director, education / visual arts / women’s equal rights activist.

05 Mar | Women’s Words & Works

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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.

02 Mar | Women’s Words & Works

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Sarah Eleanor Bayliss Royce (02 Mar 1819 – 23 Nov 1891 | Stratford-upon-Avon UK – Santa Rosa CA) diarist, author, pioneer, memoirist.

Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (02 Mar 1831 – 26 Jun 1885 | Erie PA – Ho-Ho-Kus NJ) mystery writer, aka Seeley Regester.

Annie Eliot Trumbull (02 Mar 1857 – 22 Dec 1949 | Hartford CT – Hartford CT) poet, author, playwright.

Susanna Madora [Dora] Kinsey Salter (02 Mar 1860 – 17 Mar 1961 | Lamira OH – Norman OK) politician, prohibitionist, community activist, religious / political activist, member of Women’s Christian Temperance Union [WCTU], first female Mayor of Argonia KS, one of first women elected to any US political office.

Mabel Ward Cameron (02 Mar 1863 – 22 Feb 1923 | Boston MA – Hartford CT) author, biographer.