25 May | Women’s Words & Works

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Katherine Lucinda Sharp (25 May 1865 – 01 Jun 1914 | Elgin IL – Elgin IL) librarian, founded innovative University of Illinois Library School, helped to professionalize librarianship standards.

Cary Fink Angulo Baynes (25 May 1883 – 1977 | Mexico City MX – Zurich CH) American author, translator, pioneer Jungian, I Ching specialist.

Leta Stetter Hollingworth (25 May 1886 – 27 Nov 1939 | Dawes County NE – New York NY) author, psychological researcher.

Sue Shelton White (25 May 1887 – 06 May 1943 | Henderson TN – Washington DC) editor, author, lawyer, aka Miss Sue, reformer, suffragist, public official, National Women’s Party leader.

Clara Porset (25 May 1895 – 17 May 1981 | Matanzas CU – Los Angeles CA) Cuban-American design educator, interior designer, furniture designer, female designer scholarship award founder, bequeathed The Clara Porset Library [best design library in Mexico].

20 May | Women’s Words & Works

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Dolley Payne Todd Madison (20 May 1768 – 12 Jul 1849 | North Carolina Province, British America – Washington DC) US Presidential First Lady, memoirist, letter correspondent.

Mary Ramsey Lemons Wood (20 May 1787 – 01 Jan 1908 | Knoxville TN – Hillsboro OR) pioneer, died as oldest person at that time (disputed), aka Oldest Methodist in the World, First Mother Queen of Oregon Pioneers.

Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell (20 May 1825 – 05 Nov 1921 | Henrietta NY – Elizabeth NJ) author, Unitarian pastor, women’s rights activist, first US female ordained minister.

Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (20 May 1851 – 09 Jul 1926 | Lenox MA – New York NY) author, religious sister, memoirist, social worker, aka Mother Mary Alphonsa.

07 May | Women’s Words & Works

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Juliet Ann Opie Hopkins (07 May 1818 – 09 Mar 1890 | Jefferson County WV – Washington DC) US Civil War Confederate nurse, aka Florence Nightingale of the South.

Harriet Starr Cannon (07 May 1823 – 29 Mar 1896 | Charleston SC – Peekskill NY) religious, school founder, children’s advocate, spiritual leader / organizer, founded Episcopalian Sisterhood of St Mary.

Euphemia Vale Blake (07 May 1824 – 21 Oct 1904 | Hastings UK – Brooklyn NY) critic, author, editor, journalist, British-born American.

Varina Banks Howell Davis (07 May 1826 – 16 Oct 1906 | Natchez MS – New York NY) writer, memoirist, columnist, Confederate States First Lady, post-war reconciliation activist.

Margaret Elizabeth [Lizzie] Crozier French (07 May 1851 – 14 May 1926 | Knoxville TN – Washington DC) educator, suffragist, social reform activist.

24 Apr | Women’s Words & Works

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Annis Bertha Ford Eastman (24 Apr 1852 – 22 Oct 1910 | Peoria IL – Elmira NY) author, lecturer, suffragist, theologian, philosopher, first NY State ordained female minister.

Virna Sheard (24 Apr 1862 – 22 Feb 1944 | Cobourg ON – Toronto ON) poet, novelist, pen name Stanton Sheard.

Gemma La Guardia Gluck (24 Apr 1881 – 01 Nov 1962 | New York NY – New York NY) memoirist, Italian-Jewish-American, Holocaust survivor, citizen of US and Hungary, sister of Fiorello La Guardia [first Italian-American Mayor of NYC].

Rowena Meeks Abdy (24 Apr 1887 – 18 Aug 1945 | Vienna AT – San Francisco CA) plein-air painter.

Sara Campbell (24 Apr 1890 – 18 Nov 1965 | Dover TN – Paducah KY) poet, author, flag designer, aka The Betsy Ross of Paducah.

01 Mar | Women’s Words & Works

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Mary Palmer Tyler (01 Mar 1775 – 07 Jul 1866 | Watertown MA – Brattleboro VT) author, farmer, mother of 11 children, published one of earliest childcare manuals [1811] by an American woman.

Lillian M. N. Ames Stevens (01 Mar 1844 – 06 Apr 1914 | Dover-Foxcroft ME – Portland ME) philanthropist, humanitarian, community activist, women’s right advocate, founder / president Maine WCTU and president of US National WCTU [Women’s Christian Temperance Union].

Mary Ella Waller (01 Mar 1855 – 14 Jun 1938 | Boston MA – Wellesley MA) poet, novelist, essayist, translator, short story writer.

Virginia E. Walker Broughton (01 Mar 1856 – 21 Sep 1934 | Nashville TN – Memphis TN) African-American author, teacher, essayist, preacher, religious scholar, Baptist missionary.

Katharine Elizabeth Dopp (01 Mar 1863 – 14 May 1944 | Belmont WI – Chicago IL) teacher, educational activist, one of first to advocate for industry / business involvement in elementary education, children / young adult textbooks author in science / economics / anthropology.