03 Feb | Women.Words.Work

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Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson (03 Feb 1737 – 23 Feb 1801 | Horsham PA – Philadelphia PA) poet, author, commonplace book writer.

Amelia Ball Coppuck Welby (03 Feb 1819 – 03 May 1852 | St Michael’s MD – Louisville KY) poet.

Anna Campbell Palmer (03 Feb 1854 – 18 Jun 1928 | Elmira NY – Elmira NY) novelist, aka Mrs. George Archibald.

Alice Locke Park (03 Feb 1861 – 18 Oct 1961 | Boston MA – Palo Alto CA) pacifict, suffragist, feminist, peace / women’s rights activist, WILPF leader, founded Palo Alto Women’s Peace Party, organized American Union Against Militarism [later the American Civil Liberties Union].

Gertrude Stein (03 Feb 1874 – 27 Jul 1946 | Allegheny PA – Neuilly-sur-Seine FR) poet, novelist, lesbian, playwright, language innovator.

29 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Araminta Harriet Ross Tubman (29 Jan 1820 – 10 Mar 1913 | Bucktown MD – Auburn NY) African-American, US folk figure, former slave, Civil War spy / nurse, abolitionist leader, Underground Railroad conductor.

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (29 Jan 1835 – 09 Apr 1905 | Cleveland OH – Newport RI) poet, aka Susan Coolidge, short fiction writer, children’s book author.

Sarah Loguen Fraser (29 Jan 1850 – 09 Apr 1933 | Syracuse NY – Washington DC) African-American, social activist, medical pioneer, first black female graduate Upstate Medical University, first black female doctor in Dominican Republic.

Jeannette Meyer Thurber (29 Jan 1850 – 02 Jan 1946 | Delhi NY – Bronxville NY) pioneering music educator, American Opera Company founder, one of first major US classical music patrons, founded National Conservatory of Music of America, sponsored the debut of Boston Symphony in New York, created / funded scholarships for blacks / women / handicapped.

Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau (29 Jan 1859 – 25 Jul 1915 | New Orleans LA – Cannes FR) American-French, artist’s model, Parisian socialite.

28 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Josephine Meeker (28 Jan 1857 – 20 Dec 1882 | Ohio US – Colorado US) teacher, memoirist, physician, Ute tribe / Meeker Massacre captive / survivor.

Dorothy Donnelly (28 Jan 1880 – 03 Jan 1928 | New York NY – New York NY) actress, lyricist, librettist, playwright, producer, director.

Anna Althea Hills (28 Jan 1882 – 13 Jun 1930 | Ravenna OH – Laguna Beach CA) plein-air impressionist landscape painter, president of Laguna Beach Art Association, strong proponent of Laguna Beach Art Museum.

Lily Strickland Anderson (28 Jan 1884 – 06 Jun 1958 | Anderson SC – Hendersonville NC) writer, painter, composer, songwriter, aka South Carolina’s Gift to Music.

Waldine Amanda Tauch (28 Jan 1892 – 31 Mar 1986 | Schulenburg TX – San Antonio TX) sculptor.

27 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Eunice Hale Waite Cobb (27 Jan 1803 – 02 May 1880 | Kennebunk ME – East Boston MA) author, activist, memoirist, public speaker.

Eliza Allen Billings (27 Jan 1826 – 1866 | Eastport ME – Eastport ME) memoirist, adventurer, disguised male soldier George Mead in Mexican-American War.

Ella Weed (27 Jan 1853 – 10 Jan 1894 | Newburgh NY – New York NY) author, educator, satirical novelist, Barnard College fundraiser / founding member.

Augusta Foss Heindel (27 Jan 1865 – 15 May 1949 | Mansfield OH – Oceanside CA) Danish-American author, esoteric astrologer.

Geneva Mercer (27 Jan 1889 – 02 Mar 1984 | Jefferson AL – Demopolis AL) painter, sculptor.

26 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Julia Boggs Dent Grant (26 Jan 1826 – 14 Dec 1902 | St Louis MO – Washington DC) memoirist, US Presidential First Lady.

Mary Mapes Dodge (26 Jan 1831 – 21 Aug 1905 | New York NY – Tannersville NY) editor, children’s book author.

Franzisca Bernadina Wilhelmina Elisabeth [Elisabet] Ney (26 Jan 1833 – 29 Jun 1907 | Münster DEU – Austin TX) German-American sculptor.

Anna Eliza Hardy (26 Jan 1839 – 15 Dec 1934 | Bangor ME – Jamaica Plain MA) artist, floral still-life specialist.

Mabel Osgood Wright (26 Jan 1859 – 16 Jul 1934 | New York NY – Fairfield CT) novelist, bird / nature / gardening author, early leader in the Audubon movement.

24 Jan | Women: Words & Works

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Catherine Elizabeth Brewer Benson (24 Jan 1822 – 27 Feb 1908 | Augusta GA – Macon GA) first US female to earn Bachelor degree, awarded by Wesleyan College [Macon GA].

Catharine [Cate] Merrill (24 Jan 1824 – 30 May 1900 | Corydon IN – Indianapolis IN) author, educator, Civil War nurse, second female US university professor.

Mary Susan Noailles Murfree (24 Jan 1850 – 31 Jul 1922 | Murfreesboro TN – Murfreesboro TN) novelist, short story writer, aka Charles Egbert Craddock.

Katherine [Kate] Harwood Waller Barrett (24 Jan 1857 – 23 Feb 1925 | Falmouth VA – Alexandria VA) physician, sociologist, humanitarian, philanthropist, social activist / reformer, founded first home for unwed mothers / National Florence Crittenton Mission.

Edith Newbold Jones Wharton (24 Jan 1862 – 11 Aug 1937 | New York NY – Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt FR) novelist, designer, short story writer.

23 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Agnes Maule Machar (23 Jan 1837 – 24 Jan 1927 | Kingston ON – Kingston ON) poet, author, novelist, essayist, feminist, biographer, social reformer, pen-name Fidelis.

Amanda Berry Smith (23 Jan 1837 – 24 Feb 1915 | Long Green MD – Sebring FL) singer, teacher, autodidact, missionary, autobiographical author.

Marianne Cope (23 Jan 1838 – 09 Aug 1918 | Hessen DEU – Kalaupapa HI) German-American, aka The Leprosy Nun, school / hospital / orphanage founder, canonized religious sister Saint Marianne of Molokaʻi.

Antoinette Sterling (23 Jan 1850 – 10 Jan 1904 | Sterlingville NY – Hampstead UK) Anglo-American vocalist, teacher, voice teacher, church singer, Christian Scientist.

Lydia Field Emmet (23 Jan 1866 – 16 Aug 1952 | New Rochelle NY – New York NY) artist, portrait painter, stained glass artist.

22 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Catherine Wolfe Bruce (22 Jan 1816 – 13 Mar 1900 | New York NY – New York NY) philanthropist, astronomy patron, namesake for Bruce Medal of Astronomical Society of the Pacific / Bruce moon crater / asteroid 323 Brucia.

Harriet Ward Sanborn Grosvenor (22 Jan 1823 – 07 Sep 1863 | Hampton Falls NH – Newburyport MA) poet, writer, novelist.

 

Jennie Fowler Willing (22 Jan 1834 – 06 Oct 1916 | Burford ON – New York NY) author, temperance reformer, founding member Women’s Christian Temperance Union [WCTU], founded New York Evangelistic Training School.

Marie Manning (22 Jan 1872 – 28 Nov 1945 | Washington DC – Washington DC) novelist, journalist, suffragist, aka Beatrice Fairfax, magazine founder, short fiction writer, autobiographical author, first US newspaper advice columnist.

Elsie Reford (22 Jan 1872 – 08 Nov 1967 | Perth ON – Montreal QC) art collector, pioneer horticulturist, outdoor sportswoman, WWI War Office German/English translator, created one of largest private gardens in Canada [open to public since 1962].

21 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Eliza Roxcy Smith Snow Young (21 Jan 1804 – 05 Dec 1887 | Becket MA – Salt Lake City UT) poet, Mormon historian, married to Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, Lorenzo Snow.

Anna White (21 Jan 1831 – 16 Dec 1910 | Brooklyn NY – Mount Lebanon NY) Shaker Eldress, religious sister, social / political / peace activist, Mt. Lebanon Shaker Community member.

Helen Hamilton Gardener (21 Jan 1853 – 26 Jul 1925 | Winchester VA – Washington DC) author, lecturer, suffragist, political activist, government functionary, born Alice Chenoweth, Free Thought movement member.

Willie Betty Newman (21 Jan 1863 – 06 Feb 1935 | Murfreesboro TN – Nashville TN) portrait artist, worked / exhibited in Paris salons / in her native Tennessee / throughout the US.

Marguerite Agniel (21 Jan 1891 – 01 Apr 1971 | Indiana US – Washington DC) actress, author, dancer, yoga practitioner, health and beauty guru, nude yoga proponent.

20 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Harriet Eaton Stanton Blatch (20 Jan 1856 – 20 Nov 1940 | Seneca Fall NY – Greenwich CT) writer, speaker, suffragist.

Julia Morgan (20 Jan 1872 – 02 Feb 1957 | San Francisco CA – San Francisco CA) architect, Arts and Crafts Movement supporter, first female AIA Gold Medalist [posthumous award].

Zelda Paldi Sears (20 Jan 1873 – 19 Feb 1935 | Brockway Township MI – Hollywood CA) novelist, actress, lyricist, playwright, screenwriter, businesswoman.

Drusilla Dunjee Houston (20 Jan 1876 – 08 Feb 1941 | Harpers Ferry WV – Phoenix AZ) author, musician, educator, journalist, columnist, screenwriter, independent historian, co-founded Oklahoma City chapters of YWCA / Red Cross / NAACP, one of first leaders of Oklahoma Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs, contributing editor to Oklahoma Black Dispatch [first black newspaper in Oklahoma City, founded by brother Roscoe Dunjee].

Irma LeVasseur (20 Jan 1877 – 18 Jan 1964 | Quebec City QC – Quebec City QC) physician, pioneering pediatrician, first French-Canadian female doctor.