30 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Lucinda Hinsdale Stone (30 Sep 1814 – 23 Mar 1851 | Hinesburg VT – Kalamazoo MI) educator, feminist, suffragist, abolitionist, aka Mother of Clubs, Ladies Library Association leader, autobiographical author, women’s education program innovator.

Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis (30 Sep 1832 – 09 May 1905 | Culpeper VA – Philadelphia PA) social activist, community organizer, founder of Civil War Mothers’ Day Work Clubs, maternal inspiration for founding Mother’s Day [by daughter Anna Marie Jarvis].

Fannie Ruth Robinson (30 Sep 1847 – 29 Apr 1925 | Carbondale PA – Newark OH) poet, author, educator, academic administrator, president of Oxford Female College [Ohio].

Mary Roger Williams (30 Sep 1857 – 17 Sep 1907 | Hartford CT – Florence IT) American Impressionist, oil / pastel portrait / landscape artist.

Faith Fyles (30 Sep 1875 – 22 Oct 1961 | Cowansville QC – Ottawa ON) author, artist, botanist, seed analyst, director of the Arboretum, first botanical artist with Canadian Horticulture Department.

29 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Caroline Ardelia Yale (29 Sep 1848 – 02 Jul 1933 | Charlotte VT – Northampton MA) writer, lip-reading v. signing advocate, deaf educator, autobiographical author, Clarke School for the Deaf principal / administrator.

Sara Dary Armbruster (29 Sep 1862 – unknown | Philadelphia PA – Bala Cynwyd PA) realtor, publisher, businesswoman, women’s rights activist, published the weekly Woman’s Journal, founded the Women’s Exchange in Philadelphia [Note: image on right shows unnamed woman with a copy of Woman’s Journal].

Gertrude Barnum (29 Sep 1866 – 17 Jun 1948 | Chicago IL – Los Angeles CA) author, diarist, labor historian, social reformer, union organizer.

Emma Wold (29 Sep 1871 – 21 Jul 1950 | Norway SD – Washington DC) author, attorney, teacher, women’s rights expert, national disarmament delegate.

Naomi Norsworthy (29 Sep 1877 – 25 Dec 1926 | New York NY – New York NY) author, educator, child psychologist, first female faculty member at Columbia University.

28 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Persis Goodale Thurston Taylor (28 Sep 1821 – 21 Apr 1906 | Kailua-Kona HI – Honolulu HI) painter, sketch artist

Caroline Earle White (28 Sep 1833 – 07 Sep 1916 | Philadelphia PA – Nantucket MA) author, suffragist, travel writer, short fiction writer, animal rights activist, founded Women’s Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals [WPSPCA]

Frances Elizabeth Willard (28 Sep 1839 – 17 Feb 1898 | Churchville NY – New York NY) author, orator, pacifist, educator, suffragist, feminist, visionary, temperance reform leader

Kate Douglas Wiggin (28 Sep 1856 – 24 Aug 1923 | Philadelphia PA – Harrow UK) children’s author, children’s educational advocate, kindergarten founder / teacher trainer

Sister Mary Joseph (28 Sep 1883 – 05 Jun 1967 | Peoria IL – Webster Groves MO) nun, academic, librarian, born Sherer, founder / director Gallery of Living Catholic Authors at Webster College [now Webster University] in Webster Goves MO

27 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Martha [Patsy] Jefferson Randolph (27 Sep 1772 – 10 Oct 1836 | Monticello, Virginia, British America – Albemarle County VA) US Presidential daughter, Acting US First Lady, inherited Monticello from father Thomas Jefferson.

Anna McNeill Whistler (27 Sep 1804 – 03 Jan 1881 | Wilmington NC – Hastings UK) folk figure, artist’s model, letter correspondent, aka Whistler’s Mother.

Lucretia Maria Davidson (27 Sep 1808 – 27 Aug 1825 | Plattsburgh NY – Plattsburgh NY) short-lived poet.

Aubertine Woodward Moore (27 Sep 1841 – 23 Sep 1929 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) author, music critic, professor, translator, short story writer, focus on Scandinavian literature, pen name: Auber Forestier.

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (27 Sep 1861 – 17 Feb 1933 | New York NY – New York NY) poet, author, lecturer, public speaker, political family member.

26 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Adelaide Johnson (26 Sep 1859 – 10 Nov 1955 | Plymouth IL – Washington DC) artist, sculptor, suffragist.

Lucy Biddle Lewis (26 Sep 1861 – 14 Jan 1941 | Sharon Hill PA – Yeadon PA) Quaker, pacifist, social activist, co-founder of American Friends Service Committee [1917], co-founder and President of WILPF [1922-24].

Eleanor Gates (26 Sep 1874 – 07 Mar 1951 | Shakopee MN – Los Angeles CA) novelist, playwright, scriptwriter.

Mary Elisabeth Dreier (26 Sep 1875 – 15 Aug 1963 | Brooklyn NY – Bar Harbor ME) novelist, biographer, social reformer, women’s workers’ rights activist.

Edith Abbott (26 Sep 1876 – 28 Jul 1957 | Grand Island NE – Grand Island NE) author, educator, economist, social worker.

21 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sophia Peabody Hawthorne (21 Sep 1809 – 26 Feb 1871 | Salem MA – London UK) painter, illustrator, essayist, journal editor.

Mary Monnett Bain (21 Sep 1833 – 30 Jul 1885 | Delaware OH – Osawatomie KS) philanthropist, women’s higher education advocate / supporter.

Mary T. Waggaman (21 Sep 1846 – 30 Jul 1931 | Baltimore MD – Baltimore MD) prolific children’s author and religious novelist.

Susan Macdowell Eakins (21 Sep 1851 – 27 Dec 1938 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) artist, painter, photographer, artist’s model.

Sara Delano Roosevelt (21 Sep 1854 – 07 Sep 1941 | Newburgh NY – Hyde Park NY) memoirist, mother of FDR, political family member, mother-in-law to Eleanor Roosevelt.

20 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Lidian Jackson Emerson (20 Sep 1802 – 13 Nov 1892 | Plymouth MA – Concord MA) intellectual, literary figure / hostess, abolitionist, animal welfare activist, women’s / Native American rights advocate.

Elizabeth [Libby] Smith Miller (20 Sep 1822 – 22 May 1911 | Peterboro NY – Geneva NY) author, suffragist, biographer, women’s dress code reformer, women’s movement financial supporter.

Kate Harrington (20 Sep 1831 – 29 Sep 1917 | Allegheny City PA – Fort Madison IA) poet, teacher, children’s author, primer and speller writer, born Rebecca Harrington Smith, aka Rebecca Smith Pollard, pioneered / produced first sequential reading program of intensive synthetic phonics for children used in American public schools [till 1937].

Alice Rollit Coe (20 Sep 1858 – 08 Dec 1940 | Rawdon QC – Seattle WA) poet, author, immigrant, pen name: May B. Knott.

Edith Guerrier (20 Sep 1870 – 1958 | New Bedford MA – Boston MA) author, librarian, progressive library program activist, founded Paul Revere Pottery and Saturday Night Girls groups in Boston’s North End.

17 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Mercy Ruggles Bisbee Jackson (17 Sep 1802 – 13 Dec 1877 | Hardwick MA – Boston MA) writer, lecturer, suffragist, physician, homeopath, school teacher, temperance activist, mother of eleven children, advocate for women’s medical education, professor of children’s diseases at newly-opened Boston University School of Medicine, applied / denied access to medical training for 10 years because she was a woman.

Cora Frances Stoddard (17 Sep 1872 – 13 May 1936 | Irvington NE – Dorchester MA) author, temperance activist, The Scientific Temperance Federation secretary / active member.

Emily Vanderbilt Sloane Hammond (17 Sep 1874 – 22 Feb 1970 | Manhattan NY – Manhattan NY) author, heiress, musician, socialite, philanthropist, charities activist, founder of Parents’ League of New York.

Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (17 Sep 1880 – 01 Jan 1980 | Philadelphia PA – Waterbury CT) figurative sculptor.

Katharine Sergeant Angell White (17 Sep 1892 – 20 Jul 1977 | Winchester MA – Blue Hill ME) author, gardener, New Yorker fiction editor.

12 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Amy Morris Bradley (12 Sep 1823 – 15 Apr 1904 | East Vassalboro ME – Wilmington NC) teacher, translator, Unitarian, aka Our School Mother, Civil War Union nurse / administrator, founded free schools in Wilmington NC, established first English-language school in Central America.

Celestia Susannah Parrish (12 Sep 1853 – 07 Sep 1917 | Pittsylvania VA – Clayton GA) author, educator, child psychologist, university professor, aka Georgia’s Greatest Woman.

Florence Kelley (12 Sep 1859 – 17 Feb 1932 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) author, factory inspector, co-founder NAACP, autobiographical author, consumer’s advocate, social / political reformer, children’s labor rights activist, pioneered use of term ‘wage abolitionism’.

Ethel Atwood (12 Sep 1866 – 09 Apr 1948 | Fairfield ME – Los Angeles CA) violinist, sole professional US female prompter, leader / co-founder of Fadette Ladies’ Orchestra aka The Fadettes of Boston.

Grace Harriet Macurdy (12 Sep 1866 – 23 Oct 1946 | Robbinston ME – Poughkeepsie NY) author, historian, professor, first US female to earn PhD from Columbia University, focus on royal women during Hellenistic period.

11 Sep | Herstorical.Reflections

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Sarah [Sally] Franklin Bache (11 Sep 1743 – 05 Oct 1808 | Philadelphia Province – Philadelphia PA) women’s pro-independence activist, political hostess for father Benjamin Franklin, American Revolutionary War relief work leader.

Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie (11 Sep 1806 – 15 Sep 1870 | Middletown CT – Amagansett NY) author, memoirist, Middle Western pioneer and historian.

Elizabeth Kekaʻaniau Pratt (11 Sep 1834 – 20 Dec 1928 | Waialua HI – Honolulu HI) author, biographer, High Chiefess, full name Elizabeth Kekaʻaniauokalani Kalaninuiohilaukapu Kekaikuihala Laʻanui Pratt.

Mary Anna Palmer Draper (11 Sep 1839 – 08 Dec 1914 | Stonington CT – New York NY) art collector, philanthropist, astronomical photographer, co-founded Mount Wilson Observatory.

Mary Watson Whitney (11 Sep 1847 – 20 Jan 1921 | Waltham MA – Waltham MA) author, essayist, astronomer, head of Vassar Observatory.