29 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Jemima Wilkinson (29 Nov 1758 – 01 Jul 1819 | Cumberland RI – Jerusalem NY) charismatic Quaker, abstinence / gender equality advocate, religious community leader / founder, aka The Public Universal Friend.

Abigail Goodrich Whittelsey (29 Nov 1788 – 16 Jul 1858 | Ridgefield CT – Colchester CT) The Mothers’ Magazine founding editor and publisher.

Maria Teresa [Teresita] Sandoval Suazo (29 November 1811 – 1894 | Taos NM – Pueblo CO) pioneer in Arkansas Valley, co-founder of El Pueblo in Pueblo, Colorado, managed Doyle Settlement Ranch.

Louisa May Alcott (29 Nov 1832 – 06 Mar 1888 | Germantown PA – Boston MA) novelist, Unitarian, Civil War Union nurse.

21 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Henrietta [Hetty] Howland Robinson Green (21 Nov 1834 – 03 Jul 1916 | New Bedford MA – New York NY) heiress, folk figure, millionaire, financial investor, businesswoman, aka The Witch of Wall Street.

Rose Eytinge (21 Nov 1835 – 20 Dec 1911 | Philadelphia PA – Amityville NY) Jewish-American author, actress, memoirist, screenwriter.

Lucy Toulmin Smith (21 Nov 1838 – 18 Dec 1911 | Boston MA – Oxford UK) editor, librarian, antiquarian, translator, Anglo-American.

Isabel Florence Hapgood (21 Nov 1851 – 26 Jun 1928 | Boston MA – New York NY) author, essayist, ecumenist, translator.

13 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Elizabeth Porter Todd Edwards (13 Nov 1813 – 22 Feb 1888 | Lexington KY – Springfield IL) Mary Todd Lincoln’s sister, guardian, helper, aided Mary’s release from insane asylum.

Helen Archibald Clarke (13 Nov 1860 – 08 Feb 1926 | Philadelphia PA – Boston MA) poet, author, editor, literary critic.

Ariadna Vladimirovna Tyrkova-Williams (13 Nov 1869 – 12 Jan 1962 | Saint Petersburg RU – Washington DC) editor, writer, feminist, fundraiser, journalist, memoirist, biographer, liberal politician, women’s rights activist, member of All-Russian Union for Women’s Equality, co-founded Russian Liberation Committee in London UK.

Laura Hughes Lunde (13 Nov 1866 – 16 Jan 1966 | Toronto ON – Chicago IL) pacifist, feminist, socialist, civic reformer, Canadian-American, co-founded Canadian Labor Party and Canadian Women’s Peace Party.

Alice Spencer Geddes Lloyd (13 Nov 1876 – 04 Sep 1962 | Athol MA – Pippa Passes KY) educator, journalist, social reformer, founded Alice Lloyd College in Pippa Passes KY.

12 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Margaret Cochran Corbin (12 Nov 1751 – 16 Jan 1800 | Chambersburg PA – Highland Falls NY) aka Captain Molly, American Revolutionary War heroic vivandière, first-ever female US veteran disability pensioner.

Letitia Christian Tyler (12 Nov 1790 – 10 Sep 1842 | near Richmond VA – Washington DC) Southern belle, staunch Episcopalian, First Lady of Virginia, US Presidential First Lady.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (12 November 1815 – 26 October 1902 | Johnstown NY – New York NY) author, editor, essayist, speaker, abolitionist, social activist / reformer, women’s rights activist / leader. 

Malvina Sarah Black Waring (12 Nov 1842 – 06 Dec 1930 | Newberry SC – Platteville WI) serial novelist.

Hope Emily Allen (12 Nov 1883 – 01 Jul 1960 | Kenwood NY – Oneida NY) scholar of medieval history, discovered manuscript of the Book of Margery Kempe.

05 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Eliza Chappell Porter (05 Nov 1807 – 01 Jan 1888 | Geneseo NY – Santa Barbara CA) educator, Civil War nurse, social activist / reformer, normal school founder, Chicago’s first public school teacher. 

Georgeanna Muirson Woolsey Bacon (05 Nov 1833 – 27 Jan 1906 | Brooklyn NY – New Haven CT) nurse, author, memoirist, letter correspondent, Civil War Union nurse, co-founded Connecticut Training School for Nurses at New Haven Hospital.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (05 Nov 1850 – 30 Oct 1919 | Johnstown WI – Short Beach CT) poet, author.

Ida Minerva Tarbell (05 Nov 1857 – 06 Jan 1944 | Hatch Hollow PA – Bridgeport CT) author, teacher, journalist, feminist in actions, anti-suffragist views.

Hannah Jane Patterson (05 Nov 1879 – 21 Aug 1937 | Smithton PA – Pittsburgh PA) suffragist, social reformer.

01 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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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.

30 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Temperance [Tempe] Wick Tuttle (30 Oct 1758 – 26 Apr 1822 | Mendham NJ – Morristown NJ) American Revolutionary War folk figure.

Sarah Ewing Hall (30 Oct 1761 – 08 Apr 1830 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) Christian literature poet, educator, essayist, Bible translator and commentator.

Mary Austin Holley (30 Oct 1784 – 31 Jul 1827 | New Haven CT – New Orleans LA) settler, explorer, historical author.

Rebecca Cromwell Rouse (30 Oct 1799 – 23 Dec 1887 | Salem MA – Cleveland OH) social reformer, women’s activist / advocate.

29 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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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.

28 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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Catherine Stratton Ladd (28 Oct 1809 – 30 Jan 1899 | Richmond VA – Buckhead SC) poet, educator, essayist, playwright, Civil War nurse, early Confederate flag designer.

Henrietta Hall Shuck (28 Oct 1817 – 27 Nov 1844 | Kilmarnock VA – Hong Kong CN) memoirist, letter correspondent, founded co-ed boarding school, Chinese girls’ education advocate, first female Baptist missionary to China, first Western female to live in Hong Kong.

Mary Frame Myers Thomas (28 Oct 1816 – 19 Aug 1888 | Sandy Spring MD – Richmond IN) Quaker, abolitionist, suffragist, women’s rights leader, first female physician west of the Alleghenies.

Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (28 Oct 1842 – 22 Oct 1932 | Philadelphia PA – Goshen NY) Quaker, orator, author, actress, novelist, lecturer, suffragist, abolitionist, mountaineer, Civil War spy, first female worker at US Mint, first woman to address US Congress.

Mary Katharine [Kate] Layne Curran Brandegee (28 Oct 1844 – 03 Apr 1920 | Tennessee US – Berkeley CA) botanist, autobiographical author, journal editor / publisher, created first botanical garden in San Diego CA.

18 Oct | Herstorical.Reflections

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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.