01 Mar | Women.Words.Work

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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.

24 Feb | Women.Words.Work

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Elizabeth Harper Tappan (24 Feb 1784 – 02 Aug 1855 | Harpersfield NY – Harpersfield OH) pioneer, teacher at Western Reserve School.

Lydia Amanda Brewster Sewell (24 Feb 1839 – 15 Nov 1926 | North Elba NY – Florence IT) artist, genre / portrait painter.

Emma Esther Lampert Cooper (24 Feb 1855 – 30 Jul 1920 | Nunda NY – Pittsford NY) realist artist.

Maria Maud Leonard McCreery (24 Feb 1883 – 10 Apr 1938 | Cedarburg WI – Milwaukee WI) editor, socialist, feminist, suffragist, pamphleteer, tuberculosis survivor, editor-in-chief, labor union organizer.

Mary Ellen Chase (24 Feb 1887 – 28 Jul 1973 | Blue Hill ME – Northampton MA) critic, novelist, educator, essayist, children’s author.

10 Feb | Women.Words.Work

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Anne Robertson Johnson Cockrill (10 Feb 1757 – 13 Oct 1821 | Wake County NC – Nashville TN) pioneer landowner, first female to receive land grant in Tennessee.

Mildred Childe Lee (10 Feb 1845 – 27 Mar 1905 | Arlington VA – New Orleans LA) folk figure, Confederate family member, General Robert E. Lee’s youngest daughter.

Marguerite Milton Wells (10 Feb 1872 – 12 Aug 1959 | Milwaukee WI – Minneapolis MN) writer, suffragist, social reformer, MN League of Women Voters state / national president.

Mary Rowena [Rena] Maverick Green (10 Feb 1874 – 29 Nov 1962 | Sedalia MO – San Antonio TX) editor, sculptor, suffragist, memoirist, publisher, watercolorist, social activist, one of first women on San Antonio School Board, co-founder / first president of San Antonio Conservation Society.

Edith Clarke (10 Feb 1883 – 29 Oct 1959 | Howard County MD – Olney MD) author, essayist, first US female electrical engineer, first US female professor of electrical engineering, first woman to earn MS in electrical engineering from MIT, invented / patented Clarke calculator / Clarke transformation, first female Fellow of American Institute of Electrical Engineers.

07 Feb | Women.Words.Work

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Jane Stuart Woolsey (07 Feb 1830 – 09 Jul 1891 | Brooklyn NY – Fishkill NY) teacher, memoirist, Civil War Union nurse, field hospital superintendent.

Hannah Tatum Whitall Smith (07 Feb 1832 – 01 May 1911 | Philadelphia PA – Iffley UK) author, public speaker, temperance activist, spiritual autobiography author, US Holiness Movement / UK Higher Life Movement leader.

Emma Wixom Palmer Nevada (07 Feb 1859 – 20 Jun 1940 | Alpha CA – Liverpool UK) fencer, multi-linguist, operatic coloratura soprano.

Laura Ingalls Wilder (07 Feb 1867 – 10 Feb 1957 | Pepin County WI – Mansfield MO) author, memoirist, pioneer settler, farm journalist, children’s book writer.

Ethel Perrin (07 Feb 1871 – 15 May 1962 | Needham MA – Brewster NY) author, physical education expert / teacher.

10 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Sally Foster Otis (10 Jan 1770 – 06 Sep 1838 | Boston MA – Boston MA) hostess, folk figure, Francophile, aka Queen of Boston Society.

Louisa Lane Drew (10 Jan 1820 – 31 Aug 1897 | London UK – Larchmont NY) British-American stage actress, theater owner, theatrical family matriarch.

Larcena Ann Pennington Page Scott (10 Jan 1837 – 31 Mar 1913 | Nashville TN – Tucson AZ) pioneer, Western folk heroine, Indian kidnap survivor.

Manie Payne Ferguson (10 Jan 1850 – 08 Jun 1932 | Carlow IE – Los Angeles CA) hymnist, evangelist, social activist, co-founded Peniel Mission, American Holiness Movement pioneer leader.

Mary Amelia Ingalls (10 Jan 1865 – 17 Oct 1928 | Pepin WI – De Smet SD) blind, folk / literary family figure, one of sisters of Little House on the Prairie.

02 Jan | Women.Words.Work

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Queen Emma Kalanikaumakaʻamano Kaleleonālani Naʻea Rooke of Hawaiʻi (02 Jan 1836 – 25 Apr 1885 | Honolulu or Kawaihae, Sandwich Islands – Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) Queen monarch, social activist, hospital founder, advocated Hawaii’s independence.

Alice Mary Robertson (02 Jan 1854 – 01 Jul 1931 | Tullahassee Mission, Creek Nation – Muskogee OK) politician, educator, social worker, anti-feminist, Native American rights advocate.

Martha [Minnie] Carey Thomas (02 Jan 1857 – 02 Dec 1935 | Baltimore MD – Philadelphia PA) linguist, suffragist, Bryn Mawr founder / president, first female Johns Hopkins’ student / honorary graduate.

Anne Sewell Young (02 Jan 1877 – 15 Aug 1961 | Bloomington WI – Claremont CA) author, astronomer, astronomy professor, variable star observer.

Mary Hamilton Swindler (02 Jan 1884 – 16 Jan 1967 | Bloomington IN – Haverford PA) author, archaeologist, art historian, classical art scholar, first female Editor-in-Chief American Journal of Archaeology.

29 Dec | Women.Words.Work

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Margaret McDonald Bottome (29 Dec 1827 – 14 Nov 1906 | New York NY – New York NY) author, magazine columnist, religious organizer, founded Christian spiritual development / service organization Order of the King’s Daughters.

Lillian Heath Nelson (29 Dec 1865 – 05 Aug 1962 | Burnett Junction WI – Rawlins WY) memoirist, first female doctor in Wyoming, one of first female medical practitioners west of the Mississippi River.

Annie Montague Alexander (29 Dec 1867 – 10 Dec 1950 | Honolulu HI – Oakland CA) explorer, paleontologist, philanthropist, museum founder, fossil hunter / collector.

Love Rosa Hirschmann Gantt (29 Dec 1875 – 16 Nov 1935 | Camden SC – Philadelphia PA) physician, public health worker, eye-ear-nose-and-throat specialist.

12 Dec | Women.Words.Work

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Martha Jane Coston (12 Dec 1826 – 09 Jul 1904 | Baltimore MD – Philadelphia PA) businesswoman, Coston emergency machine flare inventor / purveyor.

Sarah Brown Ingersoll Cooper (12 Dec 1835 – 11 Dec 1896 | Cazenovia NY – San Francisco CA) editor, educator, suffragist, philanthropist, women’s rights activist, kindergarten advocate / founder, treasurer for General Federation of Women’s Clubs, founded Jackson Street Kindergarten Association [in 1879, later renamed Golden Gate Kindergarten Association].

Caroline Lake Quiner Ingalls (12 Dec 1839 – 20 Apr 1924 | Brookfield WI – De Smet SD) aka Ma Ingalls, folk / literary / mother / pioneer figure.

Charlotte Frances Felt Wilder (12 Dec 1839 – 03 Dec 1916 | Templeton MA – Manhattan KS) author, novelist, Methodist, civic leader, club woman, magazine writer, juvenile religious writer.

Charlotte [Lottie] Digges Moon (12 Dec 1840 – 24 Dec 1912 | Albemarle County VA – Kobe Harbor JP) teacher, evangelist, missionary, one of first US women to earn Master’s Degree in Languages.

08 Dec | Women.Words.Work

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Mary Aloysia Hardey (08 Dec 1809 – 17 Jun 1886 | Piscataway MD – Paris FR) educator, administrator, religious sister, established 25 convents and schools in US, Cuba, and Canada, first American-born Mother Superior of the Society of the Sacred Heart.

Lucy Addison (08 Dec 1861 – 13 Nov 1937 | Upperville VA- Washington DC) African-American educator, school principal.

Mary Kimball Morgan (08 Dec 1861 – 13 Oct 1948 | Janesville WI – Elsah IL) Christian Science educator, founding president of Principia Schools and College in St. Louis MO.

Nellie Verne Walker (08 Dec 1874 – 10 Jul 1973 | Red Oak IA – Colorado Springs CO) sculptor.

Stella George Stern Perry (08 Dec 1877 – 07 Nov 1956 | New Orleans LA – Brooklyn NY) poet, novelist, essayist, short story writer, nonfiction author.

18 Nov | Women.Words.Work

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Henrietta Sargent (18 Nov 1785 – 11 Jan 1871 | Gloucester MA – Cambridge MA) abolitionist, founded Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society.

Susan Lincoln Tolman Mills (18 Nov 1826 – 12 Dec 1912 | Enosburg VT – Oakland CA) educator, missionary, co-founded Mills College for Women.

Amanda Akin Stearns (18 Nov 1827 – 02 Feb 1911 | Pawling NY – Pawling NY) author, US Civil War nurse, memoirist.

Abigail [Abbey] Perkins Cheney (18 Nov 1851 – unknown | Milwaukee WI – unknown) pianist, author, educator, innovative researcher into therapeutic physiological effects of playing piano.