27 Mar | Women.Words.Work

Posted on by

Jane Franklin Mecom (27 Mar 1712 – 08 May 1794 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) milliner, innkeeper, letter writer, political family member, autobiographical author.

Jane Colden Farquhar (27 Mar 1724 – 10 Mar 1766 | New York NY – New York NY) botanist, illustrator, letter writer, first female botanist recognized in the New World.

Elleanor Eldridge (27 Mar 1784 – c. 1862 | Warwick RI – unknown) memoirist, landlord, property owner, pioneering African-American entrepreneur.

Virginia Louisa Minor (27 Mar 1824 – 14 Aug 1894 | Caroline County VA – St Louis MO) suffragist, social activist, co-founder / first president Woman’s Suffrage Association of Missouri.

Catherine [Kate] Fox (27 Mar 1837 – 02 Jul 1892 | Consecon ON – Brooklyn NY) folk figure, controversial spiritualist medium, considered one of the founders of modern spiritualist movement.

26 Mar | Women.Words.Work

Posted on by

Sophia McIlvaine Bledsoe Herrick (26 Mar 1837 – 09 Oct 1919 | Gambier OH – Greenwich CT) editor, science writer, literary critic.

Jessie Catherine Kinsley (26 Mar 1858 – 10 Feb 1938 | Oneida NY – Oneida NY) diarist, painter, folk artist, memoirist, letter correspondent, braided tapestry maker, Oneida Community member.

Alice Lee Hornor Snelling Moqué (26 Mar 1861 – 16 Jul 1919 | New Orleans LA – Washington DC) poet, essayist, lecturer, travel writer, suffragist, photographer, sportswoman, newspaper correspondent, early US female bicyclist, founding member / vice-president of National Congress of Mothers.

Bertha Van Hoosen (26 Mar 1863 – 07 Jun 1952 | Stony Creek MI – Romeo MI) essayist, physician, medical illustrator, women’s health advocate, autobiographical author, president / founding member American Medical Women’s Association.

Agnes Gertrude Regan (26 Mar 1869 – 30 Sep 1943 | San Francisco CA – Washington DC) lay leader, women’s activist, federal housing advocate, Latin American female exchange student activist, executive secretary of National Council of Catholic Women.

25 Mar | Women.Words.Work

Posted on by

Jennie Carter Benedict (25 Mar 1860 – 24 Jul 1928 | Louisville KY – Louisville KY) cook, columnist, cookbook author, restaurateur, autobiographical author.

Florence Elizabeth Smith Knapp (25 Mar 1875 – 26 Oct 1949 | Syracuse NY – Marcy NY) author, politician, Secretary of State of New York, Dean of College of Home Economics at Syracuse University, accused of maladministration / convicted of grand larceny, only woman elected to statewide office in New York [1924 – 1974].

Frances Glessner Lee (25 Mar 1878 – 27 Jan 1962 | Chicago IL – Bethlehem NH) artist, heiress, dollhouse expert, aka Mother of Forensic Science, created The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, founded The Nutshell Laboratories in Littleton NH, endowed first Department of Legal Medicine at Harvard University.

Bella Cohen Spewack (25 Mar 1899 – 29 Apr 1990 | Transylvania RO – Manhattan NY) diarist, reporter, lyricist, memoirist, screenwriter.

Ruth Winifred Howard Beckham (25 Mar 1900 – 12 Feb 1997 | Washington DC – Washington DC) social worker, child psychologist, pioneering African-American female PhD in psychology.

24 Mar | Women.Words.Work

Posted on by

Margaret A. E. Parkinson McLure (24 Mar 1811 – 31 Jan 1902 | Parkersburg WV – St Louis MO) aka Mother McLure, American Civil War Confederate sympathizer, founded Missouri Confederate Home, co-founded Daughters of the Confederacy.

Frances Jane [Fanny] Crosby van Alstyne (24 Mar 1820 – 12 Feb 1915 | Brewster NY – Bridgeport CT) poet, lyricist, composer, blind activist, mission worker, autobiographical author.

Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (24 Mar 1826 – 18 Mar 1898 | Cicero NY – Chicago IL) artist, editor, author, suffragist, Theosophist, freethinker, Native American activist.

Candace Thurber Wheeler (24 Mar 1827 – 05 Aug 1923 | Delhi NY – New York NY) textile / interior designer, women’s arts supporter, aka Mother of Interior Design.

Bertha Hedges Spafford Vester (24 Mar 1878 – 27 Jun 1968 | Chicago IL – Jerusalem ISR) social service activist for girls / women, leader / member of The American Colony in Jerusalem [founded by her parents].

23 Mar | Women.Words.Work

Posted on by

Sarah Ann Lillie Bumstead Hardinge (23 Mar 1824 – 13 Oct 1913 | Boston MA – East Orange NJ) artist, author, teacher, inventor, watercolorist, self-taught painter, one of first females to depict Texas, patented photo-finishing process called Pearletta Pictures.

Sarah Elizabeth Doyle (23 Mar 1830 – 21 Dec 1922 | Providence RI – Providence RI) educator, feminist, women’s education activist, co-founded Rhode Island School of Design, funded Brown University’s Pembroke Hall [became Pembroke College].

Josephine Lazarus (23 Mar 1846 – 03 Feb 1910 | New York NY – Manhattan NY) book critic, essayist, Zionist, lecturer, biographer, transcendentalist, Emma Lazarus’ sister and co-publisher.

Fannie Merritt Farmer (23 Mar 1857 – 15 Jan 1915 | Medford MA – Boston MA) school principal, culinary expert, cookbook author.

Caroline Dale Parke Snedeker (23 Mar 1871 – 22 Jan 1956 | New Harmony IN – Bay St Louis MS) young-adult novelist, pen name Caroline Dale Owen.

22 Mar | Women.Words.Work

Posted on by

Maria Claypoole Peale (22 Mar 1787 – 27 Mar 1866 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) still-life / miniature portrait painter.

Calista Robinson Jones (22 Mar 1839 – 28 Jan 1913 | Chelsea VT – Bradford VT) educator, civic / social activist, president of Woman’s Relief Corps, founding chair / fundraiser for Woods Public Library Book Committee in Bradford.

Laura Jean Libbey (22 Mar 1862 – 25 Oct 1924 | Brooklyn NY – Brooklyn NY) prolific ‘dime’ romance novelist.

Elsie Hart Wilcox (22 Mar 1879 – 30 Jun 1954 | Hanalei HI – Kauai HI) community activist, Grove Farm Homestead preservationist, first woman to serve in Territory of Hawaii Senate.

Jessie Ethel Sampter (22 Mar 1883 – 25 Nov 1938 | New York NY – Givat Brenner IS) poet, educator, lesbian, Zionist pioneer, contracted polio at age 12.

21 Mar | Women.Words.Work

Posted on by

Mary Dixon Kies (21 Mar 1752 – 1837 | Killingly CT – Brooklyn NY) milliner, inventor, first female US patent holder [1809], invented new method of weaving straw with silk and thread.

Lucy Taft Fisher (21 Mar 1805 – 20 Jan 1854 | Wendell MA – Oregon City OR) pioneer, American Baptist Home missionary.

Antonia Maury (21 Mar 1866 – 08 Jan 1952 | Cold Spring NY – Dobbs Ferry NY) author, astronomer, published early catalog of stellar spectra.

Amy Eliza Tanner (21 Mar 1870 – 01 Feb 1956 | Owatonna MN – Worcester MA) author, psychologist, doctor of philosophy, spiritual medium researcher, theater owner / manager, girls / women’s club activist.

Anna Strunsky Walling (21 Mar 1877 – 25 Feb 1964 | Babinots RU – San Francisco CA) author, Socialist, novelist, essayist, social / political activist.

20 Mar | Women.Words.Work

Posted on by

Sophia Fowler Gallaudet (20 Mar 1798 – 13 May 1877 | near Guildford CT – Washington DC) born deaf, lobbyist for deaf education, founding matron of National Deaf-Mute College [later Gallaudet College].

Mary Elizabeth Moore Hewitt (20 Mar 1807 – 17 Sep 1884 | Malden MA – Chicago IL) poet, editor.

Cornelia Phillips Spencer (20 Mar 1825 – 11 Mar 1908 | Harlem NY – Cambridge MA) poet, hymnist, journalist, social historian, first female to receive honorary degree from University of North Carolina.

Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell (20 Mar 1845 – 10 Mar 1888 | Urumiah IR – Lausanne CH) American author, historian, ancient art expert.

Maria Longworth Nichols Storer (20 Mar 1849 – 30 Apr 1932 | Cincinnati OH – Paris FR) potter, patron of arts, Rookwood Pottery Company founder.

17 Mar | Women.Words.Work

Posted on by

Queen Kaʻahumanu (17 Mar 1768 – 05 Jun 1832 | Maui HI – Mānoa Valley HI) aka The Feathered Mantle, Kingdom of Hawai’i regent / queen consort.

Elizabeth [Eliza] Kirby Withington (17 Mar 1825 – 04 Mar 1877 | New York NY – Ione CA) portrait and landscape photographer.

Emily Sartain (17 Mar 1841 – 17 Jun 1927 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) engraver, portrait painter, mezzo-tint artist.

Cornelia Maria Clapp (17 Mar 1849 – 31 Dec 1934 | Montague MA – Mount Dora FL) author, academic, zoologist, Marine biologist, earned both first and second American PhD degrees awarded to a woman.

E. Alice Munn Austen (17 Mar 1866 – 09 Jun 1952 | Staten Island NY – Staten Island NY) photographer, landscape artist, master tennis player, first Staten Island woman to own a car.

14 Mar | Women.Words.Work

Posted on by

Narcissa Prentiss Whitman (14 Mar 1808 – 29 Nov 1847 | Prattsburgh NY – Waiilatpu [now Spokane] WA) diarist, letter correspondent, Whitman Massacre victim, missionary / mission founder, first white woman known to cross Rocky Mountains.

Lucy Hobbs Taylor (14 Mar 1833 – 03 Oct 1910 | Constable NY – Lawrence KS) women’s rights activist, first graduated / licensed US female dentist.

Eliza Frances Shepard Pumpelly (14 Mar 1840 – 05 Feb 1915 | Dorchester MA – Newport RI) socialite, mother, aka Mrs. Raphael Pumpelly, portrait painted by John Singer Sargent.

Anna Caroline Maxwell (14 Mar 1851 – 02 Jan 1929 | Bristol NY – New York NY) nurse, author, nurse educator, established Army Nursing Corps, aka The American Florence Nightingale.

Emily Gowan Ferguson Murphy (14 Mar 1868 – 27 Oct 1933 | Cookstown ON – Edmonton AB) jurist, author, magistrate, women’s rights activist, one of Canada’s Famous Five.