23 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Anne Elizabeth McDowell (23 Jun 1826 – 30 Sep 1901 | Smyrna DE – Drexel Hill PA) editor, journalist, publisher, founded Woman’s Advocate weekly newspaper, founded McDowell Free Library for Women for workers at Wanamaker’s Department Store.

Agnes Dean Abbat (23 Jun 1847 – 01 Jan 1917 | New York NY – New York NY) artist, teacher, watercolorist, floral still life / landscape / coastal scene painter, second women elected to the American Water Color Society.

Louise Howland King Cox (23 Jun 1865 – 11 Dec 1945 | San Francisco CA – Windham CT) woodcarver, photographer, stained glass artist, children’s portrait painter.

Mabel Rivers Landrum Torrey (23 Jun 1886 – 01 Apr 1974 | Sterling CO – Ames IA) sculptor, ceramicist, children’s figure specialist, commissioned public sculptor.

Sarah Van Hoosen Jones (23 Jun 1892 – 1972 | Stony Creek MI – Rochester MI) author, breeder, civic leader, genetic researcher, first US female PhD in Animal Genetics.

21 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Theodosia Bartow Burr Alston (21 Jun 1783 – 29 Dec 1812 | Albany NY – lost at sea off coast of South Carolina) folk figure, letter correspondent, First Lady of South Carolina, US Vice Presidential daughter.

Minnie Dessau Louis (21 Jun 1841 – 12 Mar 1922 | Philadelphia PA – Manhattan NY) poet, author, educator, community leader, co-founder of National Council of Jewish Women.

Mary Salome Cutler Fairchild (21 Jun 1855 – 20 Dec 1921 | Dalton MA – Takoma Park MD) author, librarian, library activist / educator.

Martha Van Rensselaer (21 Jun 1864 – 26 May 1932 | Randolph NY – New York NY) author, editor, educator, domestic scientist, founding co-director Cornell College of Home Economics.

Mary Cromwell Jarrett (21 Jun 1876 – 04 Aug 1961 | Baltimore MD – New York NY) author, educator, researcher, psychiatric social worker, pioneer work with post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD].

19 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Mary Tenney Gray (19 Jun 1833 – 11 Oct 1904 | Liberty PA – Kansas City KS) poet, editor, clubwoman, suffragist, fundraiser, philanthropist, cookbook publisher, editorial writer, aka Mother of the Woman’s Culture Club in Kansas.

Mary Sibbet Copley Thaw (19 Jun 1843 – 09 Jun 1929 | near Kittanning PA – Pittsburgh PA) heiress, philanthropist, funded archaeology research, female archaeologist advocate.

Mary Roxanna Platt Hatch (19 Jun 1848 – 28 Nov 1935 | Stratford NH – Santa Monica CA) editor, author, playwright, club woman, magazine writer, pen-name Mabel Percy and Mary R. P. Hatch.

Elizabeth Louise Clarke [Pyrnelle] Parnell (19 Jun 1850 – 26 Aug 1907 | Perry County AL – Birmingham AL) children’s / young adult novelist.

Elizabeth [Bessie] Marbury (19 Jun 1856 – 22 Jan 1933 | New York NY – New York NY) lesbian, literary agent, pioneering theatrical producer, modern commercial theatre business methods innovator.

18 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Jane Lampton Clemens (18 Jun 1803 – 27 Oct 1890 | Columbia KY – Keokuk IA) literary family figure, mother of Samuel Clemens, portrayed as Aunt Polly in Tom Sawyer.

Frances [Fanny] Sargent Locke Osgood (18 Jun 1811 – 12 May 1850 | Boston MA – New York NY) poet, author, letter correspondent.

Helen Hinsdale Rich (18 Jun 1827 – 04 Sep 1914 | Antwerp NY – St. Joseph MO) poet, lecturer, suffragist, women’s rights activist, temperance worker, short fiction writer, aka Poet of the Adirondacks, first woman to stand for woman suffrage in St. Lawrence County NY.

Laura Adeline Muntz Lyall (18 Jun 1860 – 09 Dec 1930 | Radford UK – Toronto ON) visual artist, Canadian Impressionst, known for portraits of mothers and children.

Carolyn Wells (18 Jun 1862 – 26 Mar 1942 | Rahway NJ – New York NY) poet, author.

16 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Mary Katherine Goddard (16 Jun 1738 – 12 Aug 1816 | Groton CT – Baltimore MD) editor, printer, publisher, Baltimore MD Post Office postmistress, first newspaper publisher in Providence RI, first to print US Declaration of Independence with names of signatories.

Jane [Jenny] Marsh Parker (16 Jun 1836 – 13 Mar 1913 | Milan NY – Rochester NY) fiction / nonfiction author.

Belle Brezing (16 Jun 1859 – 11 Aug 1940 | Lexington KY – Lexington KY) madam, folk figure, aka The American Magdalene, basis for Belle Watling in Gone with the Wind [Brezing’s last name had one ‘e’ — except on her headstone, where it was mispelled Breezing].

Sarah Margaret Armour Robertson (16 Jun 1891 – 06 Dec 1948 | Montreal QC – Montreal QC) painter, member of Beaver Hall Hill Group / Canadian Group of Painters.

Jennie Grossinger (16 Jun 1892 – 20 Nov 1972 | Baligrod AH- Liberty NY) hotelier, restaurateur, cookbook author.

14 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (14 Jun 1811 – 01 Jul 1896 | Litchfield CT – Hartford CT) poet, author, abolitionist, social reformer.

Elizabeth Priscilla Cooper Tyler (14 Jun 1816 – 29 Dec 1889 | New York NY – Montgomery AL) political family member, White House hostess / de facto First Lady for father-in-law US President John Tyler.

Cornelia Peake McDonald (14 Jun 1822 – 11 Jan 1909 | Alexandria VA – Louisville KY) author, Confederate Civil War diarist, aka One of the Devil Diarists of Winchester.

Sigourney Trask (14 Jun 1849 – 20 Mar 1936 | Spring Creek PA – Barcroft VA) physician, Methodist Episcopal Church missionary, first female missionary doctor at Foochow, China.

Ruth Imogen Stout (14 Jun 1884 – 22 Aug 1980 | Topeka KS – Redding CT) memoirist, nonfiction author, no-work gardening expert / innovator.

12 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Lilian Jeannette Rice (12 Jun 1889 – 22 Dec 1938 | National City CA – Rancho Santa Fe CA) pioneering female eco-conscious architect.

Lela Campbell Murray (12 Jun 1890 – 18 Mar 1949 | Kentucky US – San Bernardino CA) social / civil rights activist, pioneering African-American dude ranch co-owner / manager.

Djuna Barnes (12 Jun 1892 – 18 Jun 1982 | Cornwall-on-Hudson NY – New York NY) poet, writer, journalist, illustrator, memoirist, playwright, sketch artist.

Viola Blanche Evans Dean (12 Jun 1892 – 31 May 1974 | Clay County AL – Goodwater AL) teacher, author, naturalist, illustrator, conservationist.

Anni Albers (12 Jun 1899 – 09 May 1994 | Berlin DEU – Orange CT) author, weaver, Bauhaus graduate, printmaker, mixed media artist, German-American textile artist, born Annelise Elsa Frieda Fleischmann, founded Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.

09 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Theodora Cormontan (09 Jun 1840 – 26 Oct 1922 | Beitstad NO – Decorah IA) pianist, organist, hymnist, composer, teacher, music publisher, music-lending librarian.

Helen Marot (09 Jun 1865 – 03 Jun 1940 | Philadelphia PA – New York NY) writer, editor, librarian, social reformer, labor organizer.

Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller (09 Jun 1877 – 18 Mar 1968 | Philadelphia PA – Framingham MA) poet, painter, sculptor, African-American, member of Black Renaissance.

Marcia Davenport (09 Jun 1903 – 16 Jan 1996 | New York NY – Monterey CA) author, music critic, memoirist, biographer.

Sarah Ratner (09 Jun 1903 – 28 Jul 1999 | New York NY – New York NY) author, essayist, biochemist, researcher.

08 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Mary Lucinda Bonney Rambaut (08 Jun 1816 – 24 Jul 1900 | Hamilton NY – Hamilton NY) educator, women’s school founder, Native American rights advocate.

Sarah Ellen Harding Baker (08 Jun 1847 – 30 Mar 1886 | Cincinnati OH – Johnson County IA) teacher, astronomer, creative quilter, known for her Solar System Quilt.

Ida Saxton McKinley (08 Jun 1847 – 26 May 1907 | Canton OH – Canton OH) bank teller, ‘secret’ epileptic, US Presidential First Lady.

Marion [Mamie] Graves Anthon Fish (08 Jun 1853 – 25 May 1915 | Staten Island NY – Glenclyffe NY) socialite, high society leader, self-styled fun-maker.

Adah Louise Sutton Saalfield (08 Jun 1860 – 18 Nov 1935 | Brooklyn NY – Akron OH) poet, author, children’s writer, women’s rights activist, animal welfare advocate, pen names: Ada Sutton, Adah Louise Sutton, Louise A. Field.

07 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Susan Elizabeth Blow (07 Jun 1843 – 27 Mar 1916 | St Louis MO – New York NY) author, educator, kindergarten founder, children’s education activist, aka The Mother of American Kindergarten.

Alice Luann Moore Hubbard (07 Jun 1861 – 07 May 1915 | Wales NY – off the coast of Ireland) writer, feminist, original Roycrofter, lost at sea onboard torpedoed ocean liner Lusitania.

Alice Van Vechten Brown (07 Jun 1862 – 16 Oct 1949 | Hanover NH – Middletown NJ) author, art educator, art historian, created first US courses in museum training [1911] and modern art [1927] .

Alice Nielsen (07 Jun 1872 – 08 Mar 1943 | Nashville TN – Far Rockaway NY) operatic lyric soprano.

Carmela Anna Ponselle (07 Jun 1887 – 13 Jun 1977 | Schenectady NY – New York NY) operatic mezzo-soprano.