17 Oct | Women’s Words & Works

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Anne Parrish (17 Oct 1761 – 26 Dec 1800 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) Quaker, educator, philanthropist, school founder, girls’ and women’s rights activist.

Ellen Palmer Allerton (17 Oct 1835 – 31 Aug 1893 | Centerville NY – Padonia KS) poet.

Laura Read Wilder Wight (17 Oct 1861 – 13 Nov 1954 | Honolulu HI – Honolulu HI) heiress, family member of Hawaiian railway magnate.

Sophia Hayden Bennett (17 Oct 1868 – 03 Feb 1953 | Santiago CL – Winthrop MA) architect, first female MIT graduate in architecture, designed Woman’s Building at World’s Columbia Exposition 1892.

Clara Longworth de Chambrun (17 Oct 1873 – 31 May 1954 | Cincinnati OH – Paris FR) author, novelist, biographer, Shakespeare scholar, patron of the arts, founding member of The American Library in Paris.

16 Oct | Women’s Words & Works

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Isabelle Walton Lusk (16 Oct 1835 – 22 Jan 1933 | Old Town ME – Sacramento CA) memoirist, travel author, national traveler.

Lilian Leland Andrews (16 Oct 1857 – c. 1930 | New York NY – unknown) author, Freethinker, world traveler, travel writer, Liberal League lecturer.

Victoria Kaʻiulani Cleghorn (16 Oct 1875 – 06 Mar 1899 | Honolulu HI – Honolulu HI) artist, princess, cultural ambassador, aka Victoria Kaʻiulani Kalaninuiahilapalapa Cleghorn.

Anna Elizabeth Keener (16 Oct 1895 – 22 Jul 1982 | Flagler CO – Santa Fe NM) artist, painter, author, WWI Navy yeoman.

Marguerite Luella Rawalt (16 Oct 1895 – 16 Dec 1989 | Prairie City IL – Corpus Christi TX) author, attorney, feminist, women’s rights activist.

13 Oct | Women’s Words & Works

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Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley (13 Oct 1744 – 22 Jan 1832 | Philadelphia PA – Carlisle PA) folk figure, aka Molly Pitcher, American Revolutionary War heroine.

Lillie Langtry (13 Oct 1853 – 12 Feb 1929 | Jersey UK – Monaco FR) British-American actress, vineyard owner, autobiographical author, thoroughbred race horse farm owner, stage production company founder / director, born Emilie Charlotte Le Breton.

Eleanor Clarke Slagle (13 Oct 1868 – 18 Sep 1942 | Hobart NY – Yonkers NY) social worker, occupational therapy pioneer / leader / founder, founding member of National Society for Promotion of Occupational Therapy.

Louise Closser Hale (13 Oct 1872 – 26 Jul 1933 | Springfield MA – Los Angeles CA) actress, novelist, playwright.

12 Oct | Women’s Words & Works

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Frances Dana Barker Gage (12 Oct 1808 – 10 Nov 1884 | Marietta OH – Greenwich CT) poet, author, activist, reformer, abolitionist.

Augusta Emma Simmons Stetson (12 Oct 1842 – 12 Oct 1928 | Waldoboro ME – Rochester NY) poet, pastor, author, reader, fundraiser, Christian Science leader, excommunicated for alleged false teaching and insubordination.

Julia Richman (12 Oct 1855 – 24 Jul 1912 | New York NY – Paris FR) educator, textbook author, educational reformer.

Mabel Thorp Boardman (12 Oct 1860 – 17 Mar 1946 | Cleveland OH – Washington DC) author, philanthropist, American Red Cross leader.

11 Oct | Women’s Words & Works

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Ann Eliza Schuyler Bleecker (11 Oct 1752 – 23 Nov 1783 | New York, Colony of New York – Albany NY) poet, short story writer, letter correspondent.

Anna Warner Bailey (11 Oct 1758 – 19 Jan 1851 | Groton CT – Groton CT) folk figure, storyteller, tavern keeper, Revolutionary War heroine, aka Mother Bailey and The Petticoat Patriot.

Margaretta Bleecker Faugères (11 Oct 1771 – 09 Jan 1801 | New York, Colony of New York – Brooklyn NY) poet, editor, author, playwright, political activist.

Harriet Boyd Hawes (11 Oct 1871 – 31 Mar 1945 | Boston MA – Washington DC) nurse, author, archeologist, relief worker, discoverer / director of one of first Minoan archaeological excavation sites.

10 Oct | Women’s Words & Works

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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 | Women’s Words & Works

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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 | Women’s Words & Works

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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 | Women’s Words & Works

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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 | Women’s Words & Works

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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.