14 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Josephine Louise Van der Schrieck (14 Nov 1813 – 03 Dec 1886 | Bergen-op-Zoom NL – Cincinnati OH) Catholic nun / leader / educator, member of Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur.

Madeleine Lemoyne Ellicott (14 Nov 1856 – 1945 | Chicago IL – Baltimore MD) suffragist, political activist, founder / president League of Women Voters of Maryland, co-organized Pan-American Conference of Women [1922].

Isabel Bevier (14 Nov 1860 – 17 Mar 1942 | Plymouth OH – Urbana IL) author, pioneer university home economics educator / administrator.

Claribel Cone (14 Nov 1864 – 20 Sep 1929 | Jonesboro TN – Baltimore MD) German-American art collector, physician, pathologist.

Anna Magdalena Plehn Meyer (14 Nov 1867 – 18 Aug 1941 | Neumark PRU – Milwaukee WI) poet, hymnist, German-English translator of hymns.

11 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth Doughton Reeves (11 Nov 1799 – 30 Dec 1892 | Grayson County VA – Omaha NE) social activist, first female physician in Nebraska.

Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta (11 Nov 1815 – 23 Mar 1891 | Bennington VT – New York NY) poet, critic, writer, teacher, socialite, literary circle figure, Barnard College co-founder, memoirs published posthumously.

Mathilda L. Mahurin (11 Nov 1827 – 16 Apr 1916 | Miami OH – Elkhart IN) teacher, Methodist activist.

Anna Katharine Green Rohlfs (11 Nov 1846 – 11 Apr 1935 | Brooklyn NY – Buffalo NY) poet, novelist, short fiction writer, pioneer detective fiction author, aka Mother of the Detective Novel.

Julia Brainerd Hall (11 Nov 1859 – 04 Sep 1926 | Jamaica – Rochester NY) artist, chemist, musician, still-life painter, co-developer of Hall Process for extracting aluminium from its ore.

08 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Alice Bunker Stockham (08 Nov 1833 – 03 Dec 1912 | Cardington OH – Alhambra CA) author, fifth female US doctor, philosophy school founder, birth control / gender equality / marital sexual fulfillment activist / advocate.

Maria Kraus-Boelté (08 Nov 1836 – 01 Nov 1918 | Hagenow DEU – Atlantic City NJ) author, essayist, professor, Froebel education advocate, kindergarten pioneer / founder, president of Kindergarten Department of National Education Association.

Lizzie Pitts Merrill Palmer (08 Nov 1838 – 28 Jul 1916 | Portland ME – Great Neck NY) educator, philanthropist, child activist, children’s educational school / child development research institute founder.

Katherine [Kate] Olivia Sessions (08 Nov 1857 – 24 Mar 1940 | San Francisco CA – San Diego CA) botanist, horticulturist, landscape architect, aka Mother of Balboa Park.

Margaret [Meta] Gladys Watkins (08 Nov 1884 – 10 Nov 1969 | Hamilton ON – Glasgow SCT) Canadian photographer, later recluse in Scotland, works discovered in her house after her death.

06 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Micaela Almonester, Baroness de Pontalba (06 Nov 1795 – 20 Apr 1874 | New Orleans LA – Paris FR) aristocrat, land developer, businesswoman, art / folk / literary figure.

Mary Owens Cook (06 Nov 1831 – 07 Mar 1918 | Cincinnati OH – Des Moines IA) pioneer, civic / social activist, natural and adoptive mother, adoption legislation activist / advocate [note: generic image of mother and child].

Anna Harriet Edwards Leonowens (06 Nov 1831 – 19 Jan 1915 | Ahmednagar IND – Montreal QC) Canadian, teacher, folk figure, suffragist, memoirist, women’s activist, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design co-founder.

Angie Warren Perkins (06 Nov 1858 – 28 Jan 1921 | Danielson CT – Knoxville TN) author, educator, travel writer, club woman, first female dean University of Tennessee.

Helen Bradford Thompson Woolley (06 Nov 1874 – 24 Dec 1947 | Chicago IL – Havertown PA) author, psychologist, gender-difference researcher, pioneer in child developmental studies.

26 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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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 | Herstorical.Reflections

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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.

20 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Ellen Hardin Walworth (20 Oct 1832 – 23 Jul 1915 | Jacksonville IL – Washington DC) poet, author, editor, attorney, historian, biographer, social activist, domestic violence survivor / advocate, historic preservationist, Daughters of the American Revolution co-founder.

Elizabeth [Bessie] Bradwell Helmer (20 Oct 1858 – 10 Jan 1927 | Chicago IL – Chicago IL) attorney, publisher, Great Chicago Fire survivor, women’s rights activist / advocate.

Frances Alice Kellor (20 Oct 1873 – 04 Jan 1952 | Columbus OH – New York NY) author, essayist, social reformer / investigator, focus on women and immigrants.

Nellie Mooney McClung (20 Oct 1873 – 01 Sep 1951 | Chatsworth ON – Victoria BC ) novelist, legislator, suffragist, social activist, non-fiction author, one of Canada’s Famous Five.

Inglis Fletcher (20 Oct 1879 – 30 May 1969 | Alton IL – Wilmington NC) novelist, playwright.

17 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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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.

12 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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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.

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.