10 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah Thompson, Countess Rumford (10 Oct 1774 – 02 Dec 1852 | Concord NH – Concord NH) educator, philanthropist, first US woman to be named Countess, founded school for motherless girls.

Harriet Atwood Newell (10 Oct 1793 – 30 Nov 1812 | Haverhill MA – Port Louis MUS) memoirist, first wave US Christian missionary to India, Burma, and Mauritius.

Josephine [J.P.] Pollard (10 Oct 1834 – 15 Aug 1892 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, editor, author, hymn writer, religious / historical children’s writer, founding member of Sorosis professional women’s club.

Caroline M. Hewins (10 Oct 1846 – 04 Nov 1926 | Roxbury MA – Hartford CT) librarian, travel writer, library activist, children’s author, letter correspondent, autobiographical author, founded first Children’s Reading Room in Hartford [CT], aka First Lady of the Library, founded Education Club for Parents and Teachers [later the Parent-Teachers Association], first woman speaker at annual meeting of American Library Association, founded first Connecticut State Library Committee [later CT State Library Commission].

Eleanor Elizabeth Gordon (10 Oct 1852 – 06 Jan 1942 | Hamilton IL – Keokuk IA) author, educator, suffragist, Unitarian minister, women’s rights activist.

07 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Ann Eliza Brainerd Smith (07 Oct 1819 – 06 Jan 1909 | St Albans VT – St Albans VT) poet, author, novelist, essayist.

Abby Maria Hemenway (07 Oct 1828 – 24 Feb 1890 | Ludlow VT – Chicago IL) Vermont historian, religious convert, pioneering author / editor / publisher of Vermont Historical Gazetteers.

Margaretta [Maggie] Fox Kane (07 Oct 1833 – 08 Mar 1893 | Consecon ON – New York NY) folk figure, Canadian spiritualist, Catholic convert, one of the [in]famous Fox Sisters, co-established Spiritualist movement.

Mary Dana Hicks Prang (07 Oct 1836 – 07 Nov 1927 | Syracuse NY – Melrose MA) author, art educator, kindergarten pioneer, peace activist / reformer, Social Arts Club founder, earned Masters in Education from Harvard University aged 85.

Elizabeth McCourt Tabor (07 Oct 1854 – 07 Mar 1935 | Oshkosh WI – Leadville CO) aka Baby Doe, American folk figure, namesake of The Ballad of Baby Doe opera, aka Best Dressed Woman in the West.

06 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah Pugh (06 Oct 1800 – 01 Aug 1884 | Alexandria VA – Philadelphia PA) teacher, Quaker, suffragist, abolitionist, non-violent activist.

Myra Belle Martin (06 Oct 1861 – unknown | Grafton NH – unknown) author, teacher, financier, social activist, art historian, business executive, founded Patria Club of New York, first female president of Eastern Connecticut Teachers’ Association.

Emily Palmer Cape (06 Oct 1865 – 1953 | New York NY – Florida US) artist, painter, agnostic, co-author, travel writer, freethiker, first female co-ed at Columbia University, co-founded Society of Independent Artists.

Enid Yandell (06 Oct 1869 – 13 Jul 1934 | Louisville KY – Boston MA) author, suffragist, women’s rights advocate, pioneering female sculptor, founded Brancock School for artists on Marchtha’s Vineyard, World War I Red Cross war orphans worker.

05 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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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.

04 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Eliza McCardle Johnson (04 Oct 1810 – 15 Jan 1876 | Telford TN – Greeneville TN) US Presidential First Lady, informal Presidential tutor / educator.

Jane Elizabeth [Jenny] Twichell Kempton (04 Oct 1835 – 13 Mar 1921 | Dublin NH – Los Angeles CA) operatic contralto, operatic voice teacher, concert tour singer, aka The Favorite American Contralto, founding member of Dominant Music Club (LA), aka Mother of Music in Southern California.

Jane Maria Read (04 Oct 1853 – unknown | Barnstable MA – unknown) poet, artist, author, human / animal portrait painter, tAugustht arts / languages / mathematics.

Eliza Kellas (04 Oct 1864 – 10 Apr 1943 | Moores Forks NY – Troy NY) educator, headmistress of Emma Willard School, co-founder of Russell Sage College.

Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau (04 Oct 1867 – 28 Jan 1922 | Exeter NH – Paris FR) artist, academic, portrait painter, first American woman to exhibit at the Paris Salon.

03 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Narcissa Clark Chisholm Owen (03 Oct 1831 – 12 Jul 1911 | Webbers Falls, Cherokee Nation – Washington DC) artist, educator, Cherokee, memoirist, painter, finger weaver, tapestry artist.

Anne Eugenia Felicia Morgan (03 Oct 1845 – 23 Dec 1909 | Oberlin OH – Santa Clara County CA) author, philosopher, professor of classics, focused on philosophical interpretation of literature, invented aesthetic-athletic exercise game called Bellecycle.

Emily Lilian Whiting (03 Oct 1847 – 30 Apr 1942 | Olcott NY – Boston MA) poet, author, journalist, literary editor, art / travel writer, esoteric spiritual thinker / philosopher.

Jeannette Leonard Gilder (03 Oct 1849 – 17 Jan 1916 | Flushing NY – New York NY) writer, pioneering female journalist, autobiographer, literary magazine co-founder.

Eleanora Giulia Amalia Duse (03 Oct 1858 – 21 Apr 1924 | Vigevano IT – Pittsburgh PA) aka Duse, actively / publicly bisexual, first woman featured on cover of Time magazine, honored by First Lady Frances Cleveland with first-ever White House tea held for an actress.

02 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Anna Smith Franklin (02 Oct 1696 – 16 Apr 1763 | Boston, Province of Massachusetts – Newport, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations) American colonial newspaper printer and publisher, of the Mintunt and an almanac series, country’s first female newspaper editor, first woman to write an almanac, and first woman inducted into the University of Rhode Island’s Journalism Hall of Fame.

Hannah Adams (02 Oct 1755 – 15 Dec 1831 | Medfield MA – Brookline MA) historical author, first recognized US female professional writer.

Mary Barr Clay (02 Oct 1839 – 12 Oct 1924 | Lexington KY – Richmond KY) poet, author, pioneering Kentucky feminist / suffragist, aka Mary B. Clay and Mrs. J. Frank Herrick.

Eliza Maria Mosher (02 Oct 1846 – 16 Oct 1928 | Cayuga NY – New York NY) inventor, educator, essayist, physician, posture expert, senior editor of Medical Women’s Journal, founder of American Posture League, focus on physical fitness and health maintenance, first female professor / first Dean of Women at University of Michigan, first female resident physician / first female superintendent at Massachusetts Reformatory for Women.

Blanche Roosevelt Tucker (02 Oct 1858 – 10 Sep 1898 | Sandusky OH – Monte Carlo FR) novelist, opera singer, first American woman to sing Italian opera at Covent Garden.

29 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Caroline Ardelia Yale (29 Sep 1848 – 02 Jul 1933 | Charlotte VT – Northampton MA) writer, lip-reading v. signing advocate, deaf educator, autobiographical author, Clarke School for the Deaf principal / administrator.

Sara Dary Armbruster (29 Sep 1862 – unknown | Philadelphia PA – Bala Cynwyd PA) realtor, publisher, businesswoman, women’s rights activist, published the weekly Woman’s Journal, founded the Women’s Exchange in Philadelphia [Note: image on right shows unnamed woman with a copy of Woman’s Journal].

Gertrude Barnum (29 Sep 1866 – 17 Jun 1948 | Chicago IL – Los Angeles CA) author, diarist, labor historian, social reformer, union organizer.

Emma Wold (29 Sep 1871 – 21 Jul 1950 | Norway SD – Washington DC) author, attorney, teacher, women’s rights expert, national disarmament delegate.

Naomi Norsworthy (29 Sep 1877 – 25 Dec 1926 | New York NY – New York NY) author, educator, child psychologist, first female faculty member at Columbia University.

28 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor (28 Sep 1821 – 21 Apr 1906 | Kailua-Kona HI – Honolulu HI) painter, sketch artist

Caroline Earle White (28 Sep 1833 – 07 Sep 1916 | Philadelphia PA – Nantucket MA) author, suffragist, travel writer, short fiction writer, animal rights activist, founded Women’s Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals [WPSPCA]

Frances Elizabeth Willard (28 Sep 1839 – 17 Feb 1898 | Churchville NY – New York NY) author, orator, pacifist, educator, suffragist, feminist, visionary, temperance reform leader

Kate Douglas Wiggin (28 Sep 1856 – 24 Aug 1923 | Philadelphia PA – Harrow UK) children’s author, children’s educational advocate, kindergarten founder / teacher trainer

Sister Mary Joseph (28 Sep 1883 – 05 Jun 1967 | Peoria IL – Webster Groves MO) nun, academic, librarian, born Sherer, founder / director Gallery of Living Catholic Authors at Webster College [now Webster University] in Webster Goves MO

27 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Martha [Patsy] Jefferson Randolph (27 Sep 1772 – 10 Oct 1836 | Monticello, Virginia, British America – Albemarle County VA) US Presidential daughter, Acting US First Lady, inherited Monticello from father Thomas Jefferson.

Anna McNeill Whistler (27 Sep 1804 – 03 Jan 1881 | Wilmington NC – Hastings UK) folk figure, artist’s model, letter correspondent, aka Whistler’s Mother.

Lucretia Maria Davidson (27 Sep 1808 – 27 Aug 1825 | Plattsburgh NY – Plattsburgh NY) short-lived poet.

Aubertine Woodward Moore (27 Sep 1841 – 23 Sep 1929 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) author, music critic, professor, translator, short story writer, focus on Scandinavian literature, pen name: Auber Forestier.

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (27 Sep 1861 – 17 Feb 1933 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, author, lecturer, public speaker, political family member.