14 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Emily Pomona Edson Briggs (14 Sep 1830 – 03 Jul 1910 | Burton OH – Washington DC) journalist, first Lincoln White House female correspondent, first president of Women’s National Press Association.

Julia Magruder (14 Sep 1854 – 09 Jun 1907 | Charlottesville VA – Richmond VA) novelist, short story writer.

Alice Stone Blackwell (14 Sep 1857 – 01 Mar 1950 | Orange NJ – Cambridge MA) feminist, suffragist, journalist, social reformer, human rights advocate.

Julia Barlow Platt (14 Sep 1857 – 1935 | San Francisco CA – Pacific Grove CA) author, embryologist, environmental preservationist, Mayor of Pacific Grove [at 74], aka The Woman Who Saved Monterey Bay.

Ellen Beach Yaw (14 Sep 1869 – 09 Sep 1947 | Buffalo NY – Covina CA) coloratura soprano, aka Lark Ellen, unpublished memoirist.

13 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Theodosia Johnes Ford (13 Sep 1741 – 31 Aug 1824 | Southampton NY – Morristown NJ) historical folk figure, land / estate manager, hosted winter headquarters for Washington family / guests / troops.

Laura Ingersoll Secord (13 Sep 1775 – 17 Oct 1868 | Great Barrington, Province of Massachusetts Bay – Village of Chippewa ON) folk figure, Canadian heroine, cookbook author.

Emily Bradley Neal Haven (13 Sep 1827 – 23 Aug 1863 | Hudson NY – Mamaroneck NY) children’s author, magazine editor, popular Episcopal writer, pen names: Cousin Alice, Alice B. Neal, Alice B. Haven, Clara Cushman, Cornelia Holyroyd, Mrs Manners.

Pamela Clemens Moffett (13 Sep 1827 – 31 Aug 1904 | Jamestown TN – Greenwich CT) musician, music teacher, literary family figure.

Marian [Clover] Hooper Adams (13 Sep 1843 – 06 Dec 1885 | Boston MA – Washington DC) hostess, socialite, pioneering portrait photographer.

09 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah Mapps Douglass (09 Sep 1806 – 08 Sep 1882 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) African-American artist, author, educator, abolitionist, public lecturer, friendship letter correspondent / illustrator.

Mary Greenhow Lee (09 Sep 1819 – 25 May 1907 | Richmond VA – Baltimore MD) author, Civil War diarist, Confederate activist, known for despising / snubbing Union soldiers and Northerners.

Lucy Jane Rider Meyer (09 Sep 1849 – 16 Mar 1922 | New Haven VT – Chicago IL) writer, editor, hymnist, educator, social worker, philanthropist, Deaconess leader, chemistry professor.

Elizabeth Rebecca Coffin (09 Sep 1850 – 21 Jun 1930 | Brooklyn NY – Nantucket MA) artist, educator, New Woman, philanthropist, first American female MFA, first female student Hague Academy of Fine Arts, founded co-ed trade / crafts school on Nantucket.

Mary Austin (09 Sep 1868 – 13 Aug 1934 | Carlinville IL – Santa Fe NM) feminist, naturalist, mystic, author, “woman of genius,” leading literary figure of her time.

08 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage (08 Sep 1828 – 04 Nov 1918 | Syracuse NY – New York NY) teacher, heiress, philanthropist, arts / museum patron, progressive education advocate, founded Russell Sage College for women.

Phoebe Wilson Couzins (08 Sep 1842 – 06 Dec 1913 | St Louis MO – St Louis MO) orator, author, suffragist, first female US law graduate, first female US Marshal.

Ida Henrietta Hyde (08 Sep 1857 – 22 Aug 1945 | Davenport IA – Berkeley CA) author, world traveler, experimental physiologist, developed first microelectrode.

Mary Rockwell Hook (08 Sep1877 – 08 Sep 1978 | Junction City KS – Siesta Key FL) architect, autobiographical author, sole female architect student at Art Institute of Chicago, involved with designing / building Pine Mountain Settlement School in Kentucky Appalachian Mountains.

Mary Morton Kimball Kehew (08 Sep 1859 – 13 Feb 1918 | Boston MA – Boston MA) philanthropist, social reformer, women’s labor rights activist.

07 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Lua Adelia Davis Treat (07 Sep 1830 – 11 Apr 1923 | Trumansburg NY – Pembroke NY) writer, botanist, naturalist, entomologist, utopian community member, collaborated with Charles Darwin, aka ‘One of Darwin’s Women’.

Alice Chipman Dewey (07 Sep 1858 – 14 Jul 1927 | Fenton MI – New York NY) PhD, author, mother, educator, philosopher, world traveler, women’s right activist, letter correspondent, co-founded Laboratory School with husband John Dewey.

Laura Coombs Hills (07 Sep 1859 – 21 Feb 1952 | Newburyport MA – Massachusetts) designer, illustrator, watercolorist, miniature portrait painter.

Anna Mary Robertson Moses (07 Sep 1860 – 13 Dec 1961 | Greenwich NY – Hoosick Falls NY) farmer, folk artist, aka Grandma Moses, needlework artist.

Nellie Arnold Plummer (07 Sep 1860 – 01 Jan 1933 | Ellicott’s Mills MD – Hyatsville MD) author, teacher, former slave, first female student at Wayland Seminary, biographical / autobiographical writer.

06 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Frances [Fanny] Wright (06 Sept 1795 – 13 Dec 1852 | Dundee SCT – Cincinnati OH) Scottish-American author, lecturer, feminist, freethinker, abolitionist, social reformer, utopian commune founder. ____________________________________________________________________

Catharine Esther Beecher (06 Sep 1800 – 12 May 1878 | East Hampton NY – Elmira NY) author, educator, school founder, anti-suffragist, domestic science teacher, educational activist, co-author with sister Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Phebe Cornell Wood (06 Sep 1816 – 30 Jun 1891 | Windmill Farm NY – Albion MI) folk figure, first female US telegraph operator.

Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska (06 Sep 1829 – 12 May 1902 | Berlin DEU – Jamaica Plain MA) feminist, abolitionist, women’s rights activist, pioneering female physician, founded New England Hospital for Women and Children: first hospital in Boston, first hospital with school for nurses, second US hospital run by women physicians / surgeons.

Eleanor Cecilia Donnelly (06 Sep 1838 – 30 Apr 1917 | Philadelphia PA – West Chester PA) poet, Catholic, biographer, short story writer, aka The Poet of the Pure Soul.

04 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Wells Morris (04 Sep 1764 – 06 Nov 1819 | Burlington County NJ – Wellsboro PA) Quaker, settler, namesake of Wellsboro PA [note: middle image is painting of anonymous Quaker woman].

Sarah Childress Polk (04 Sep 1803 – 14 Aug 1891 | Murfreesboro TN – Nashville TN) US First Lady, active Presbyterian, Presidential consultant, hosted first annual White House Thanksgiving Dinner.

Phoebe Cary (04 Sep 1824 – 31 Jul 1871 | Mount Healthy OH – Newport RI) poet, lyricist, co-author with sister Alice Cary.

Marion Juliet Mitchell (04 Sep 1836 – 30 Jan 1917 | Buffalo NY – Janesville WI) poet, graduate of first chartered US women’s college Ingham Institute in Le Roy NY.

Isabella Preston (04 Sep 1881 – 31 Jan 1965 | Lancaster UK – Georgetown ON) British-Canadian author, civil servant, plant hybridist, horticulturist, first female professional hybridist in Canada, aka Queen of Ornamental Horticulture.

03 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Prudence Crandall (03 Sep 1803 – 28 Jan 1890 | Hopkinton RI – Elk Falls KS) teacher, Quaker, girls’ school founder, civil rights activist / educator.

Caroline Augusta White Soule (03 Sep 1824 – 06 Dec 1903 | Albany NY – Glasgow SCOT) poet, editor, novelist, religious writer, Universalist minister.

Eliza Wright Osborne (03 Sep 1830 – 18 Jul 1911 | Aurora NY – Auburn NY) writer, suffragist, women’s rights activist.

Sarah Orne Jewett (03 Sep 1849 – 24 Jun 1909 | South Berwick ME – South Berwick ME) novelist, short story writer.

Mary Parker Follett (03 Sep 1868 – 18 Dec 1933 | Quincy MA – Boston MA) author, social worker, philosopher, management consultant, pioneer in organizational theory and behavior.

01 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Lydia Huntley Sigourney (01 Sep 1791 – 10 Jun 1865 | Norwich CT – Hartford CT) poet, critic, children’s writer, girls’ school founder, autobiographical author, aka The Sweet Singer of Hartford.

Mary Grew (01 Sep 1813 – 10 Oct 1896 | Hartford CT – Philadelphia PA) preacher, feminist, abolitionist, social activist, public speaker.

Emma Stebbins (01 Sep 1815 – 25 Oct 1882 | New York NY – New York NY) sculptor.

Elizabeth Harrison (01 Sep 1845 – 31 Oct 1927 | Athens KY – San Antonio TX) educator, non-fiction author, autobiographical author, founding president National Louis University, early childhood / teacher training pioneer, founding member of International Kindegarten Movement, sponsored first Mothers’ Convention [later became National Parent Teachers Association].

Anna Botsford Comstock (01 Sep 1854 – 24 Aug 1930 | Otto NY – Ithaca NY) writer, educator, illustrator, conservationist, nature study movement leader.

31 Aug | Herstorical.Reflections

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Anna Bartlett Warner (31 Aug 1827 – 22 Jan 1915 | Long Island NY – Highland Falls NY) poet, author, hymnist, children’s song writer.

Esther Pugh (31 Aug 1834 – 29 Mar 1908 | Cincinnati OH – Philadelphia PA) Quaker, temperance reformer, national WCTU treasurer, editor / publisher Our Union temperance journal.

Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi (31 Aug 1842 – 10 Jun 1906 | London UK – New York NY) author, novelist, feminist, suffragist, physician.

Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (31 Aug 1842 – 13 Mar 1924 | Boston MA – Boston MA) editor, publisher, journalist, suffragist, civil rights leader, anti-lynching activist.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (31 Aug 1844 – 28 Jan 1911 | Boston MA – Boston MA) author, essayist, intellectual, Spiritualist, social activist, women’s clothing reform advocate, aka Mary Adams, Lily Phelps, Mary Gray Phelps.