23 Aug | Women.Words.Work

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Mary Moody Emerson (23 Aug 1774 – 01 May 1863 | Concord MA – Concord MA) poet, author, literary family member, mentor to her nephew Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Lillie Hitchcock Coit (23 Aug 1843 – 22 Jul 1929 | Mobile AL – San Francisco CA) folk figure, aka Firebell Lil, philanthropist, cookbook author, Coit Tower benefactor, San Francisco Volunteer Firefighters patroness, born Elizabeth Wyche Hitchcock.

Sarah Frances Whiting (23 Aug 1847 – 12 Sep 1927 | Wyoming NY – Wilbraham MA) author, essayist, physicist, astronomer, first professor of physics at Wellesley College, funded Whiting Observatory at Wellesley.

Amelie Louise Rives Troubetzkoy (23 Aug 1863 – 15 Jun 1945 | Richmond VA – Cismont VA) poet, novelist, playwright.

Edith Lake Wilkinson (23 Aug 1868 – 19 Jul 1957 | Wheeling WV – Huntington WV) lesbian, studied at Arts Student League of New York, degree from Columbia Teacher’s College [1905], Provincetown MA artist / printmaker, committed to mental hospitals [from 1924 till her death] [Note: middle image from HBO documentary © 2022 Greenie Films and Little Mama, Inc.].

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].

11 Aug | Women.Words.Work

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Eliza Hart Spalding (11 Aug 1807 – 13 Jan 1851 | Kensington CT – Brownsville OR) diarist, pioneer, missionary to Nez Perce, mother of Eliza Spalding Warren.

Octavia Walton Le Vert (11 Aug 1811 – 12 Mar 1877 | Augusta GA – Augusta GA) author, socialite, social activist, memoirist, travel writer.

Oriana [Orie] Russell Moon Andrews (11 Aug 1834 – 26 Dec 1883 | Viewmont VA – Scottsville VA) aka Dr. Orie Moon, Civil War Confederate doctor, Bedouin missionary physician.

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt (11 Aug 1836 – 22 Dec 1919 | Lexington KY – Caldwell NJ) poet.

Carrie Minetta Jacobs-Bond (11 Aug 1862 – 28 Dec 1946 | Janesville WI – Hollywood CA) poet, pianist, singer-songwriter, first US female music publisher, autobiographical author, first woman to sell one million copies of a song.

09 Aug | Women.Words.Work

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Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (09 Aug 1757 – 09 Nov 1854 | Albany NY – Washington DC) archivist, social activist, orphanage founder / supporter.

Mary Randolph (09 Aug 1762 – 23 Jan 1828 | Manakin VA – Washington DC) cookbook / housekeeping author, women’s domestic freedom advocate.

Dorothea Klumpke Roberts (09 Aug 1861 – 05 Oct 1942 | San Francisco CA – San Francisco CA) author, astronomer, Director of Bureau of Measurements at Paris Observatory, endowed Klumpke-Roberts Award for service to astronomy / astronomy education.

Janie Porter Barrett (09 Aug 1865 – 27 Aug 1948 | Athens GA – Hampton VA) educator, social reformer, welfare worker, founded Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls, Virginia State Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs founder / leader.

Lula May Hefner (09 Aug 1874 – 19 Jul 1954 | Nowata OK – Oklahoma City OK) milliner, Cherokee, businesswoman, first female oil driller in Oklahoma, first female to drill oil on her own property in Oklahoma, owned largest car garage in Oklahoma.

19 Jul | Women.Words.Work

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Elizabeth [Betty] Zane McLAugusthlin Clark (19 Jul 1759 – 23 Aug 1823 | Moorefield VA – St Clairsville OH) pioneer, folk figure, Colonial heroine.

Catherine Troutman Simmons Broshears Maynard (19 Jul 1816 – 20 Oct 1906 | Meade County KY – Seattle WA) folk figure, pioneer, memoirist, social activist, Seattle WA co-founder.

Mary Ann Bickerdyke (19 Jul 1817 – 08 Nov 1901 | Mount Vernon OH – Bunker Hill KS) author, Civil War Union nurse, hospital administrator, aka Mother Bickerdyke, lifelong veterans’ advocate.

Lizbeth [Lizzie] Borden (19 Jul 1860 – 01 Jun 1927 | Fall River MA – Fall River MA) heiress, literary / folk figure, subject of films / books / plays / folk rhymes, accused and acquitted of murdering father and stepmother in sensational trial, later shunned and ostracized by Fall River community.

Narcissa Florence Foster Jenkins (19 Jul 1868 – 26 Nov 1944 | Wilkes-Barre PA – New York NY) pianist, singer, voice teacher, literary figure, amateur operatic soprano, aka ‘the world’s worst opera singer’.

16 Jul | Women.Words.Work

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Mary Baker Eddy (16 Jul 1821 – 03 Dec 1910 | Bow NH – Chestnut Hill MA) poet, author, spiritual leader, founder / leader of First Church of Christ, Scientist.

Abby Howland Woolsey (16 Jul 1828 – 07 Apr 1893 | Alexandria VA – New York NY) author, Civil War Union nurse, nursing educator, American relief worker.

Augusta Jane Chapin (16 Jul 1836 – 30 Jun 1905 | Lakeville NY – New York NY) author, educator, pioneering Universalist minister, women’s educational advocate, chair of World’s First Religious Parliament, first female on Council of the General Convention of Universalists.

Marietta Holley (16 Jul 1836 – 01 Mar 1926 | Jefferson County NY – Jefferson County NY ) poet, author, satirist, humorist, serial novelist, pen names: Jemyma and Josiah Allen’s Wife.

Clara Shortridge Foltz (16 Jul 1849 – 02 Sep 1934 | Lafayette IN – Los Angeles CA) lawyer, journalist, suffragist, public lecturer, women’s rights legislative activist.

22 Jun | Women.Words.Work

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Emily Austin Perry (22 Jun 1795 – 15 Aug 1851 | Austinville VA – Jones Creek TX) pioneer, heiress, font innovator, religious / educational philanthropist.

Caroline Wells Healey Dall (22 Jun 1822 – 17 Dec 1912 | Boston MA – Washington DC) author, feminist, reformer, club woman, Transcendentalist.

Kate Mason Rowland (22 Jun 1840 – 28 Jun 1916 | Detroit MI – Richmond VA) editor, author, historian, biographer, genealogist, historic preservationist, charter member of United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Harriett Mulford Stone Lothrop (22 Jun 1844 – 02 Aug 1924 | New Haven CT – San Francisco CA) aka Margaret Sidney, publisher, literary hostess, children’s fiction author, historical preservationist, Children of the American Revolution founder / facilitator.

Caroline Love Goodwin O’Day (22 Jun 1869 – 04 Jan 1943 | Perry GA – Rye NY) artist, politician, school board president, third woman / first NY Democratic Congresswoman, New York State Board of Social Welfare Commissioner.

14 Jun | Women.Words.Work

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Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe (14 Jun 1811 – 01 Jul 1896 | Litchfield CT – Hartford CT) poet, author, abolitionist, social reformer.

Elizabeth Priscilla Cooper Tyler (14 Jun 1816 – 29 Dec 1889 | New York NY – Montgomery AL) political family member, White House hostess / de facto First Lady for father-in-law US President John Tyler.

Cornelia Peake McDonald (14 Jun 1822 – 11 Jan 1909 | Alexandria VA – Louisville KY) author, Confederate Civil War diarist, aka One of the Devil Diarists of Winchester.

Sigourney Trask (14 Jun 1849 – 20 Mar 1936 | Spring Creek PA – Barcroft VA) physician, Methodist Episcopal Church missionary, first female missionary doctor at Foochow, China.

Ruth Imogen Stout (14 Jun 1884 – 22 Aug 1980 | Topeka KS – Redding CT) memoirist, nonfiction author, no-work gardening expert / innovator.

13 Jun | Women.Words.Work

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Julia Brace (13 Jun 1807 – 12 Aug 1884 | Newington CT – Bloomfield CT) nurse, deaf-blind from childhood typhus fever, developed unique system of signing, studied and worked at American School for the Deaf.

Mary Lydia Bolles Branch (13 Jun 1840 – 17 Apr 1922 | New London CT – New London CT) children’s author / short story writer.

Sallie Swepson Sims Southall Cotten (13 Jun 1846 – 04 May 1929 | Lawrenceville VA – Winchester MA) poet, author, speaker, educator, historian, civic activist, North Carolina Woman’s Club leader.

Christine Terhune Herrick (13 Jun 1859 – 02 Dec 1944 | Newark NJ – Washington DC) cook, journalist, magazine writer, prolific cookbook author.

Alice Stebbins Wells (13 Jun 1873 – 17 Aug 1957 | Manhattan KS – Los Angeles CA) Pentecostal minister, first US female police officer, LAPD historian, international policewoman’s organization founder / president.

02 Jun | Women.Words.Work

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Helen Herron [Nellie] Taft (02 Jun 1861 – 22 May 1943 | Cincinnati OH – Washington DC) memoirist, US Presidential First Lady, patroness of music, planted / arranged first plantings of Japanese cherry trees gifted to Washington DC.

Marjorie Hill Allee (02 Jun 1890 – 30 Apr 1945 | Carthage IN – Indiana US) fiction / nonfiction writer, young adult novelist, children’s book author.

Dorothy West (02 Jun 1907 – 16 Aug 1998 | Boston MA – Boston MA) novelist, short story writer, African-American, member of Harlem Renaissance.

Alice Jackson Stuart (02 Jun 1913 – 13 Jun 2001 | Richmond VA – Richmond VA) teacher, professor, educational advocate, first female African-American to apply [and be denied] for graduate school at University of Virginia, earned Master of Arts at Columbia University.

Betty Wishnick-Freeman (02 Jun 1921 – 03 Jan 2009 | Chicago IL – Los Angeles CA) art collector, photographer, philanthropist, biographical author, documentary filmmaker.