02 Apr | Women.Words.Work

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Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews (02 Apr 1860 – 02 Aug 1936 | Mobile AL – Syracuse NY) novelist, short story writer.

Clara Pierce Wolcott Driscoll (02 Apr 1861 – 06 Nov 1944 | Tallmadge OH – Tallmadge OH) director of Tiffany Girls, stained glass crafter / designer / innovator.

Clara Driscoll (02 Apr 1881 – 17 Jul 1945 | St Mary’s of Aransas TX – Corpus Christi TX) novelist, politician, comic opera writer, philanthropist, historic preservationist, multilinguist.

Helen Barten Brewster Owens (02 Apr 1881 – 06 Jun 1968 | Pleasanton KS – Martinsburg WV) suffragist, mathematician, women’s activist, professor of mathematics at Cornell University.

Verna Willis (02 Apr 1887 – 11 Dec 1966 | Iversdale IL – Los Angeles CA) film editor, film works credited and uncredited.

19 Feb | Women.Words.Work

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Sara Agnes Rice Pryor (19 Feb 1830 – 15 Feb 1912 | Hitesburg VA – Bloomfield NJ) author, memoirist, novelist, journal writer, fundraiser, preservationist, Civil War historian, social / community / women and children’s activist.

Elizabeth Ann Claridge McCune (19 Feb 1852 – 01 Jan 1924 | Bedfordshire UK – Salt Lake City UT) civic activist, genealogy lecturer, pioneering unofficial female Mormon missionary, advocated LDS allow single women as missionaries [1898].

Annie Nathan Meyer (19 Feb 1867 – 23 Sep 1951 | New York NY – New York NY) author, playwright, Barnard College founder, women’s educational rights activist / advocate.

Lugenia Burns Hope (19 Feb 1871 – 14 Aug 1947 | St Louis MO – Nashville TN) social reformer, civil rights activist, African-American, community organizer, Atlanta Neighborhood Union founder / director.

Mae Elizabeth [Hope] Hampton (19 Feb 1897 – 23 Jan 1982 | Houston TX – New York NY) actress, producer, aspiring opera singer.

04 Feb | Women.Words.Work

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Mary Phinney von Olnhausen (04 Feb 1818 – 12 Apr 1902 | Lexington MA – Boston MA) author, diarist, abolitionist, head nurse at Mansion House Hospital in Alexandria VA during American Civil War, field hospital nurse during Franco-Prussian War, awarded Iron Cross by Kaiser Wilhelm I [1873].

Lila Hardaway Meade Valentine (04 Feb 1869 – 14 Jul 1921 | Richmond VA – Richmond VA) suffragist, social activist, educational reformer, public health advocate, co-founded Richmond Education Association, founder-president of Equal Suffrage League of Virginia.

Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn (04 Feb 1876 – 04 Apr 1959 | Norfolk VA – Philadelphia PA) poet, radical activist, anti-child labor, autobiographical author, Christian Socialist, member American Naturalist movement.

Harriet Joephine Terry (04 Feb 1885 – 15 Aug 1967 | Cornwall-on-Hudson NY – Washington DC) university professor, founding member African-American women’s Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority.

Elizabeth Nye Sorrell (04 Feb 1909 – 15 Jul 2007 | Laredo TX – San Antonio TX) teacher, journalist, social activist, political critic, society columnist.

28 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Josephine Meeker (28 Jan 1857 – 20 Dec 1882 | Ohio US – Colorado US) teacher, memoirist, physician, Ute tribe / Meeker Massacre captive / survivor.

Dorothy Donnelly (28 Jan 1880 – 03 Jan 1928 | New York NY – New York NY) actress, lyricist, librettist, playwright, producer, director.

Anna Althea Hills (28 Jan 1882 – 13 Jun 1930 | Ravenna OH – Laguna Beach CA) plein-air impressionist landscape painter, president of Laguna Beach Art Association, strong proponent of Laguna Beach Art Museum.

Lily Strickland Anderson (28 Jan 1884 – 06 Jun 1958 | Anderson SC – Hendersonville NC) writer, painter, composer, songwriter, aka South Carolina’s Gift to Music.

Waldine Amanda Tauch (28 Jan 1892 – 31 Mar 1986 | Schulenburg TX – San Antonio TX) sculptor.

10 Dec | Women.Words.Work

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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.

24 Nov | Women.Words.Work

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Caroline Elizabeth Thomas Merrick (24 Nov 1825 – 29 Mar 1908 | East Feliciana Parish LA – New Orleans LA) poet, suffragist, short fiction writer, social / civic activist, women’s rights advocate.

Susan Hunt Hammond Barney (24 Nov 1834 – 29 Apr 1922 | Pawtucket RI – Providence RI) author, evangelist, aka The Prisoner’s Friend, founded Prisoners’ Aid Society of Rhode Island, National Superintendent of WCTU Prison, Jail, Police, and Almshouse Visitation.

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett (24 Nov 1849 – 29 Oct 1924 | Cheetham Hill UK – Plandome NY) novelist, short story writer.

Lola Maverick Lloyd (24 Nov 1875 – 25 Jul 1944 | Castroville TX – Winnetka IL) author, pacifist, feminist, suffragist, social / political activist, co-founded Campaign for World Goverment, founding member of Woman’s Peace Party and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom [WILPF].

20 Nov | Women.Words.Work

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Emily Howland (20 Nov 1827 – 29 Jun 1929 | Sherwood NY – Sherwood NY) author, philanthropist, freed slave educator, humanitarian, advocate, women’s rights activist, first female director of any US national bank, first female LitD from University of the State of New York.

Charlotte Garrigue Masarykova (20 Nov 1850 – 13 May 1923 | Brooklyn NY – Prague CZ) author, Unitarian, women’s rights advocate, Presidential First Lady of Czechoslovakia.

Clara McDonald Williamson (20 Nov 1875 – 17 Feb 1976 | Iredall TX – Dallas TX) self-taught painter, American Naïve artist.

Rose Pesotta (20 Nov 1896 – 04 Dec 1965 | Derazhnia UA – Miami FL) author, anarchist, memoirist, feminist, labor organizer, vice-president of ILGWU [International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union].

02 Nov | Women.Words.Work

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Harriet McEwen Kimball (02 Nov 1834 – 03 Sep 1917 | Portsmouth NH – Portsmouth NH) poet, hymnist, philanthropist, aka The Poetess of the Church, funded / founded Portsmouth Cottage Hospital.

Rheta Childe Dorr (02 Nov 1868 – 08 Aug 1948 | Omaha NE – Bucks County PA) author, journalist, social worker, political activist, suffragist newspaper editor.

Marion Jones Farquhar (02 Nov 1879 – 14 Mar 1965 | Gold Hill NV – Los Angeles CA) editor, pianist, author, voice coach, tennis champion, opera libretto translator, short-term head of New York Chamber Opera.

Inez Eva Mee Boren (02 Nov 1880 – 28 Dec 1947 | San Bernardino CA – San Mateo CA) club woman, civic and social activist, director of Woman’s City Club of Oakland, League of Women Voters leader, organizing chair of Lindsay Strathmore Branch of American Red Cross [ARC].

Jessie Daniel Ames (02 Nov 1883 – 21 Feb 1972 | Palestine TX – Austin TX) suffragist, civil / social rights / anti-lynching activist, founded Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching.

05 Sep | Women.Words.Work

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Hannah Chaplin Conant (05 Sep 1809 – 18 Feb 1865 | Danvers MA – Brooklyn NY) editor, translator, Biblical scholar.

Anna Rice Cooke (05 Sep 1853 – 08 Aug 1934 | Oahu HI – Honolulu HI) art collector, patron of arts, founded Honolulu Museum of Art.

Emilie Baker Loring (05 Sep 1866 – 13 Mar 1951 | Boston MA – Wellesley MA) prolific romance novelist.

Amy Marcy Cheney Beach (05 Sep 1867 – 27 Dec 1944 | Henniker NH – New York NY) pianist, composer, first successful large-scale artistic female music composer.

Frances Daisy Emery Allen (05 Sep 1876 – 07 Dec 1958 | Kaufman County TX – Fort Worth TX) pioneering female physician, first female medical school graduate in Texas, one of first female physicians to practice in Tarrant County.

14 Aug | Women.Words.Work

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Charlotte Fowler Wells (14 Aug 1814 – 04 Jun 1901 | Cohocton NY – West Orange NJ) author, phrenologist, journal publisher.

May Dickson Exall (14 Aug 1859 – 28 Sep 1936 | McKinney TX – Dallas TX) civic leader, clubwoman, arts activist, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts co-founder.

Florence Pullman Lowden (14 Aug 1868 – 05 Jul 1937 | Chicago IL – Chicago IL) travel writer, philanthropist, First Lady of Illinois.

Vivian Louise Aunspaugh (14 Aug 1869 – 09 Mar 1960 | Bedford VA – Dallas TX) painter, art editor, art teacher, art school founder.

Leila Edna Andrews (14 Aug 1876 – 28 Apr 1954 | North Manchester IN – Oklahoma City OK) author, pediatrician, pediatrics professor, hematologist, one of first two female members of American College of Physicians [ACP].