11 Dec | Herstorical.Reflections

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Leonora Sansay (11 Dec 1773 – 12 Nov 1821 | Philadelphia PA – Newent UK) novelist, painter, memoirist, political / literary figure, aka Mary Hassal, née Honora Davern, artificial flower-making business owner.

Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier (11 Dec 1813 – 26 Apr 1888 | Plainfield NJ – New York NY) feminist, suffragist, physician, founded / directed New York Medical College and Hospital for Women, president of New York City Suffrage League and National Women’s Suffrage Association.

Mary Belle King Sherman (11 Dec 1862 – 15 Jan 1935 | Albion NY – Denver CO) author, club woman, national park activist, aka The National Park Lady.

Annie Jump Cannon (11 Dec 1863 – 13 Apr 1941 | Dover DE – Cambridge MA) author, astronomer, pioneer cataloguer / developer of contemporary stellar classification.

Louise Brown Leslie (11 Dec 1869 – 07 Oct 1948 | Perry ME – Detroit MI) editor, journalist, women’s advice columnist, pen name: Nancy Brown, aka Dear Nancy.

10 Dec | Herstorical.Reflections

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Caroline Mehitable Fisher Sawyer (10 Dec 1812 – 19 May 1894 | Newton MA – Somerville MA) poet, author, essayist, translator, social activist, short fiction writer, Universalist’s women’s and children’s societies advocate.

Jane [Jeanie] McDowell Foster (10 Dec 1829 – 17 Jan 1903 | Pittsburgh PA – Pittsburgh PA) diarist, wife of songwriter Stephen Foster, aka Jane Denny McDowell Wiley, inspiration for song “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair”.

Emily Dickinson (10 Dec 1830 – 15 May 1886 | Amherst MA – Amherst MA) poet, baker, literary figure.

Mary Louisa Parmalee Peebles (10 Dec 1833 – 25 Apr 1915 | Lansingburgh NY – Lansingburgh NY) children’s author, pen name: Lynde Palmer.

Anna Mebus Martin (10 Dec 1843 – 10 Jul 1925 | DEU – Mason County TX) seamstress, entrepreneur, textile trader, Texas rancher, German-American, bank owner / founder, first female bank president born outside US.

07 Dec | Herstorical.Reflections

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Abigail Hopper Gibbons (07 Dec 1801 – 16 Jan 1893 | Philadelphia PA – New York NY) teacher, abolitionist, social activist / reform leader, Civil War Union field nurse / hospital matron, co-founded Women’s Prison Association of NYC.

Rachel Littler Bodley (07 Dec 1831 – 15 Jun 1888 | Cincinnati OH – Philadelphia PA) author, archivist, university leader, Dean of Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, first female professor of chemistry at US medical college.

Myrta Lockett Avary (07 Dec 1857 – 14 Feb 1946 | Halifax VA – Atlanta GA) author, journalist, memoirist.

Sibyl Sanderson Terry (07 Dec 1864 – 16 May 1903 | Sacramento CA – Paris FR) operatic soprano, autobiographical author.

Willa Cather (07 Dec 1873 – 24 Apr 1947 | Gore VA – New York NY) editor, author, novelist, teacher.

06 Dec | Herstorical.Reflections

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Susanna Strickland Moodie (06 Dec 1803 – 08 Apr 1885 | Bungay UK – Toronto ON) English-Canadian poet, artist, novelist, memoirist, children’s author.

Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm (06 Dec 1815 – 22 Jul 1884 | Pittsburgh PA – Lawrenceville PA) lecturer, feminist, social reformer, Civil War nurse, autobiographer, anti-slavery advocate, first woman founder / publisher of US newspaper.

Nina [Bonina] Morais Cohen (06 Dec 1855 – 19 Feb 1918 | Philadelphia PA – Minneapolis MN) magazine writer, English literature teacher, leader in Minneapolis’ woman’s club movement, founding member of National Council of Jewish Women.

Minerva Josephine Chapman (06 Dec 1858 – 14 Jun 1947 | Sand Bank [Altmar] NY – Palo Alto CA) artist, author, still life / landscape / miniature portrait painter.

Clara Lipman Mann (06 Dec 1864 – 22 Sep 1952 | Chicago IL – New York NY) playwright, stage actress.

03 Dec | Herstorical.Reflections

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Barbara Hauer Fritchie (03 Dec 1766 – 18 Dec 1862 | Lancaster PA – Frederick City MD) folk figure, American Civil War Union activist.

Margaret [Peggy] O’Neal Eaton (03 Dec 1799 – 08 Nov 1879 | Washington DC – Washington DC) folk / political figure, involved in US President Andrew Jackson Petticoat Affair.

Louisa Susannah Cheves McCord (03 Dec 1810 – 23 Nov 1879 | Charleston SC – Charleston SC) poet, author, suffragist, playwright, translator, political essayist.

Phoebe Apperson Hearst (03 Dec 1842 – 13 Apr 1919 | Franklin MO – Pleasanton CA) feminist, suffragist, philanthropist, anthropology museum founder, founding member of National Congress of Mothers, benefactor / director of Golden Gate Kindergarten Association, co-founded all-girls National Cathedral School in Washington, DC.

Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (03 Dec 1842 – 30 Mar 1911 | Dunstable MA – Boston MA) author, professor, environmental chemist, safety / industrial engineer, experimental researcher in domestic science, first to apply chemistry to study of nutrition, first American woman to obtain a degree in chemistry, first female student and professor at MIT [Massachusetts Institute of Technology], first American woman accepted to any school of science and technology.

01 Dec | Herstorical.Reflections

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Ann Preston (01 Dec 1813 – 18 Apr 1872 | West Grove PA – Philadelphia PA) educator, physician, essayist, Quaker, children’s book author, women’s medical education activist.

Caroline Crane Marsh (01 Dec 1816 – 27 Oct 1901 | Berkley MA – Scarsdale NY) poet, author, translator, women’s rights activist.

Matilda Agnes Heron (01 Dec 1830 – 07 Mar 1877 | Draperstown IE – New York NY) Irish-American actress, translator, playwright.

Christine Ladd-Franklin (01 Dec 1847 – 05 Mar 1930 | Windsor CT – New York NY) author, logician, psychologist, mathematician, color vision theorist / researcher.

Julia Ann Moore (01 Dec 1847 – 05 Jun 1920 | Plainfield Township MI – Manton MI) poet, poetaster known for writing bad poetry, aka Julie Ann Davis, aka The Sweet Singer of Michigan.

30 Nov | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mary Hayden Green Pike (30 Nov 1824 – 15 Jan 1908 | Eastport ME – Baltimore MD) author, novelist, pen names: Mary Langdon and Sydney A. Story, Jr.

Martha George Ripley (30 Nov 1843 – 18 Apr 1912 | Lowell VT – Minneapolis MN) suffragist, feminist, woman’s physician, women’s rights advocate, public health activist / educator, founder / administrator Minneapolis Maternity Hospital [later renamed Ripley Memorial Hospital].

Mary Eliza McDowell (30 Nov 1854 – 14 Oct 1936 | Cincinnati OH – Chicago IL) social worker / reformer, community / neighborhood organizer, workplace / public health activist, head of University of Chicago’s Settlement House [later renamed Mary McDowell Settlement], aka The Settlement Lady and Angel of the Stockyards.

Elise Mercur Wagner (30 Nov 1868 – 27 Mar 1947 | Towanda PA – Old Economy Village PA) author, public / private architect, first female architect in Pittsburgh.

Etta Cone (30 Nov 1870 – 31 Aug 1949 | Jonesboro TN – Baltimore MD) heiress, literary figure, modern art collector.

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.