02 Nov | Women’s Words & Works

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Harriet McEwen Kimball (02 Nov 1834 – 03 Sep 1917 | Portsmouth NH – Portsmouth NH) poet, hymnist, philanthropist, aka The Poetess of the Church, funded / founded Portsmouth Cottage Hospital.

Rheta Childe Dorr (02 Nov 1868 – 08 Aug 1948 | Omaha NE – Bucks County PA) author, journalist, social worker, political activist, suffragist newspaper editor.

Marion Jones Farquhar (02 Nov 1879 – 14 Mar 1965 | Gold Hill NV – Los Angeles CA) editor, pianist, author, voice coach, tennis champion, opera libretto translator, short-term head of New York Chamber Opera.

Inez Eva Mee Boren (02 Nov 1880 – 28 Dec 1947 | San Bernardino CA – San Mateo CA) club woman, civic and social activist, director of Woman’s City Club of Oakland, League of Women Voters leader, organizing chair of Lindsay Strathmore Branch of American Red Cross [ARC].

Jessie Daniel Ames (02 Nov 1883 – 21 Feb 1972 | Palestine TX – Austin TX) suffragist, civil / social rights / anti-lynching activist, founded Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching.

01 Nov | Women’s Words & Works

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Frances Miriam Berry Whitcher (01 Nov 1811 – 04 Jan 1852 | Whitestown NY – Whitestown NY) poet, author, satirist, humorist.

Lydia Brooks Campbell (01 Nov 1818 – 29 Apr 1905 | Hamilton Inlet NL – Mulligan River NL) diarist, pioneer, aka Aunt Lydia, Inuit-Canadian, autobiographical author.

Dame Emma Albani (01 Nov 1847 – 03 Apr 1930 | Chambly QC – London UK) Canadian-English operatic soprano, born Marie-Louise-Emma-Cécile Lajeunesse.

Caroline Virginia Still Anderson (01 Nov 1848 – 01 Jun 1919 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) writer, educator, physician, temperance / civil rights activist, one of first African-American female physicians, co-founded Berean Manual Training and Industrial School.

Wilhelmina Eisenmayer Warkentin (01 Nov 1852 – 05 Jul 1932 | Horse Prairie IL – Newton KS) folk figure, pioneer Mennonite farmer, mistress of Warkentin Home.

29 Oct | Women’s Words & Works

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Lucy Goodale Thurston (29 Oct 1795 – 13 Oct 1876 | Marlborough MA – Honolulu HI) teacher, memoirist, letter correspondent, first Christian missionary wife in Hawaii.

[Susan] Helen Aldrich DeKroyft (29 Oct 1818 – 25 Oct 1915 | Rochester NY – Dansville NY) poet, adult-onset blindness, aka The Blind Woman Poet.

Harriet Powers (29 Oct 1837 – 01 Jan 1910 | Clarke County GA – Clarke County GA) folk artist, famous quiltmaker, freed African-American slave.

Elizabeth Flint Wade (29 Oct 1849 – 01 Dec 1915 | Cassville NY – Norwalk CT) poet, author, magazine writer, pictorial photographer, president of Scribblers literary club, editor of American Journal of Photography.

Josephine Beall Willson Bruce (29 Oct 1853 – 15 Feb 1923 | Philadelphia PA – Kimball WV) socialite, women’s rights advocate, editor of NACW journal National Notes, principal at Tuskegee University, first black female teacher in Cleveland public schools, active member National Organization of Afro-American Women.

26 Oct | Women’s Words & Works

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Elizabeth Payson Prentiss (26 Oct 1818 – 13 Aug 1878 | Portland ME – Dorset VT) author, hymnist, educator, memoirist.

Mary Tenney Castle (26 Oct 1819 – 13 Mar 1907 | Plainfield Center NY – Honolulu HI) missionary, philanthropist, aka Mother Castle, progressive educator, founded kindergarten and orphans’ home.

Matilda Jane Sager Fultz (26 Oct 1839 – 13 Apr 1928 | St Joseph MO – Reseda CA) orphan, pioneer, folk figure, massacre survivor.

Tennessee Celeste Claflin (26 Oct 1844 – 18 Jan 1923 | Homer OH – London UK) writer, banker, broker, publisher, suffragist, Spiritualist medium, founded Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly newspaper, first in US to print The Communist Manifestor, women’s rights activist / advocate, first woman [with sister Victoria Woodhull] to open Wall Street brokerage firm, aka Lady Cook, Viscountess of Montserrat.

Clara Chipman Newton (26 Oct 1848 – 03 Dec 1936 | Delphos OH – Cincinnati OH) artist, archivist, art teacher, women’s arts activist, watercolorist, painter of china and porcelain.

25 Oct | Women’s Words & Works

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Mary Hempstead Keeney Lisa (25 Oct 1782 – 03 Sep 1869 | New London CT – Galena IL) pioneer, folk figure, aka Aunt Manuel, first white woman to enter upper Missouri Indian territory.

Anna Maria Richardson Harkness (25 Oct 1837 – 27 Mar 1926 | Dalton OH – New York NY) philanthropist, founded Commonwealth Fund, funded Yale University’s Harkness Tower and Memorial Quadrangle.

Helen Augusta Blanchard (25 Oct 1840 – 09 Jan 1922 | Portland ME – Providence RI) businesswoman, sewing machine / sewing technology inventor / innovator, invented zigzag and buttonhole stitches, patent holder for 28 designs.

Maria Remond Lyons (25 Oct 1848 – 28 Jan 1929 | Brooklyn NY – Brooklyn NY) author, feminist, abolitionist, memoirist, civic leader, public educator, biographical essayist, childhood home part of Underground Railroad, first African-American student to graduate from Providence [RI] High School, second black female public school assistant principal, co-founded Women’s Loyal Union and White Rose Mission.

Carolyn Sherwin Bailey (25 Oct 1875 – 23 Dec 1961 | Hoosick Falls NY – Concord MA) children’s author, magazine writer.

24 Oct | Women’s Words & Works

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Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (24 Oct 1788 – 30 Apr 1879 | Newport NH – Philadelphia PA) poet, editor, author, letter correspondent, aka Mother of Thanksgiving, author of ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’ nursery rhyme.

Adelia Sarah Gates Orpen (24 Oct 1825 – 21 Sep 1912 | Otego NY – San Francisco CA) artist, painter, teacher, watercolorist, botanical illustrator.

Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood (24 Oct 1830 – 19 May 1917 | Royalton NY – Washington DC) author, attorney, educator, politician, suffragist, women’s rights activist, first female attorney to argue before US Supreme Court, first US female presidential candidate to receive votes.

Mary Lucinda Smith Lockwood (24 Oct 1831 – 09 Nov 1922 | Smith Mills NY – Plymouth MA) author, suffragist, travel writer, women’s rights activist, Daughters of American Revolution co-founder.

Annie Edson Taylor (24 Oct 1838 – 29 Apr 1921 | Auburn NY – Lockport NY) daredevil, school / music / dance teacher, first woman to ride barrel over Niagara Falls intentionally and survive, aka Heroine of Niagara Falls and Queen of the Mist.

23 Oct | Women’s Words & Works

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Mary Jame Mathews Adams (23 Oct 1840 – 11 Dec 1902 | Brooklyn NY – Redlands CA) poet, author, philanthropist, patron of arts / libraries

Molly Elliot Seawell (23 Oct 1860 – 15 Nov 1916 | Gloucester VA – Washington DC) historian, novelist, columnist, short story writer, non-fiction author

Neltje Blanchan De Graff Doubleday (23 Oct 1865 – 21 Feb 1918 | Chicago IL – Canton CN) nature writer, scientific historian, bird / wildflower specialist, American Red Cross active volunteer

Ethel Sturges Dummer (23 Oct 1866 – 25 Feb 1954 | Chicago IL – Winnetka IL) author, philanthropist, autobiographer, social welfare reformer

Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (23 Oct 1889 – 28 Apr 1957 | Karlsruhe DEU – Rockville MD) German-American author, psychiatrist, innovative psychoanalyst, identified schizophrenogenic mother

21 Oct | Women’s Words & Works

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Caroline Carmichael McIntosh Fillmore (21 Oct 1813 – 11 Aug 1881 | Morristown NJ – Buffalo NY) heiress, eccentric, second wife of US President Millard Fillmore.

Martha [Mattie] Whitney Summerhayes (21 Oct 1844 – 12 May 1926 | Nantucket MA – Schenectady NY) memoirist, travel writer, world traveler, pioneer Army wife, autobiographical author.

Margaret Eleanor Theodora Addison (21 Oct 1868 – 18 Dec 1940 | Horning’s Mills ON – Toronto ON) diarist, educator, first dean of women at Victoria College, Ontario.

Josephine Lovett (21 Oct 1877 – 17 Sep 1958 | San Francisco CA – Rancho Santa Fe CA) stage actress, adapter, screenwriter, riding club co-founder.

Julia Lynch Olin (21 Oct 1882 – 11 Mar 1961 | Glen Cove NY – New York NY) author, publisher, member of Bahá’í faith [later expelled], autobiographical author, co-founded New History Society NYC, formed educational association / monthly magazine The Caravan of East and West.

19 Oct | Women’s Words & Works

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Anna Murray-Douglass (19 Oct 1813 – 04 Aug 1882 | Denton MD – Washington DC) African-American abolitionist, Underground Railroad activist, first wife of Frederick Douglass.

Amanda Theodocia Jones (19 Oct 1835 – 31 Mar 1914 | East Bloomfield NY – Brooklyn NY) poet, author, inventor, suffragist, spiritualist, Jones Process vacuum canning company founder.

Margaret Hamilton (19 Oct 1840 – 11 Jan 1922 | Rochester NY – Wakefield MA) teacher, Civil War Union nurse, religious Sister of Charity, left Catholic Church and Sisters of Charity, converted to Baptist Church, president National Army Nurse Association.

Annie Smith Peck (19 Oct 1850 – 18 Jul 1935 | Providence RI – New York NY) author, scholar, lecturer, feminist, suffragist, adventurer, mountaineer, travel writer.

Bertha Knight Landes (19 Oct 1868 – 29 Nov 1943 | Ware MA – Ann Arbor MI) Seattle WA mayor, women’s activist, first female elected to govern major US city.

18 Oct | Women’s Words & Works

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Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet (18 Oct 1818 – 03 Jul 1877 | Sodus Point NY – New York NY) poet, author, editor, historian, translator, first to record lives of American Revolutionary women.

Ellen Browning Scripps (18 Oct 1836 – 03 Aug 1932 | London UK – La Jolla CA) editor, journalist, philanthropist, women’s education / democratic principles advocate, funded La Jolla Women’s Club building, founded Scripps College / Scripps Aquarium / The Scripps Research Institute [TSRI] / Scripps Institute of Oceanography [and many more].

Emma Elizabeth Brown (18 Oct 1847 – 1907 | Concord NH – Massachusetts) poet, artist, author, essayist, biographer, watercolorist, pen names: B.E.E. and E.E.Brown.

Sarah Tyson Rorer (18 Oct 1849 – 27 Dec 1937 | Richboro PA – Colebrook PA) author, domestic science pioneer educator, Pennsylvania Chautauqua School of Domestic Science director.

Helen Reimensnyder Martin (18 Oct 1868 – 29 Jun 1939 | Lancaster PA – New Canaan CT) novelist, short fiction writer, focus on Pennsylvania Dutch / Amish / Mennonite.