25 Sep | Women’s Words & Works

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Mercy Otis Warren (25 Sep 1728 – 19 Oct 1814 | Barnstable MA – Plymouth MA) poet, political writer.

Maria Parloa (25 Sep 1843 – 21 Aug 1909 | Boston MA – Bethel CT) lecturer, cookbook / housekeeping author, cooking schools founder, aka America’s First Celebrity Cook, pioneer home economics / domestic science teacher, women’s immigrant activist / educator.

Lucy Rebecca Buck (25 Sep 1845 – 20 Aug 1918 | Warren VA – Front Royal VA) posthumous author, Confederate Civil War diarist.

Vinnie Ream Hoxie (25 Sep 1847 – 12 Jan 1914 | Madison WI – Washington DC) harpist, sculptor, creator of US Capitol Lincoln Statue, first woman / youngest person to receive government commission for sculpture.

Madeline Yale Wynne (25 Sep 1847 – 04 Jan 1918 | Newport NY – Asheville NC) artist, teacher, metalsmith, philanthropist, short fiction writer, co-founded / leader of Deerfield Society of Arts and Crafts.

24 Sep | Women’s Words & Works

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Lois Lathrop Cutler (24 Sep 1788 – 23 Mar 1878 | Lebanon NH – Oak Lake MN) Mormon pioneer, mother of fourteen, Female Relief Society activist.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (24 Sep 1825 – 22 Feb 1911 | Baltimore MD – Philadelphia PA) poet, author, essayist, feminist, abolitionist, African-American, aka The Bronze Muse, civil rights / temperance activist.

Katharine [Kate] Brownlee Sherwood (24 Sep 1841 – 15 Feb 1914 | Poland OH – Washington DC) poet, journalist, clubwoman, women’s relief leader, Poetess of Congressional Circle.

Winifred Edgerton Merrill (24 Sep 1862 – 06 Sep 1951 | Ripon WI – Fairfield CT) astronomer, first female Columbia University graduate, first US woman PhD in mathematics.

Cornelia Bowen (24 Sep 1865 – 09 Jul 1934 | Tuskegee AL – Mount Meigs AL) writer, teacher, educator, administrator, in the first graduating class of Tuskegee Institute, founded Mount Meigs Colored Institute and Negro Boys’ Reformatory.

30 Aug | Women’s Words & Works

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Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur (30 Aug 1837 – 12 Jan 1880 | Culpeper VA – New York NY) soprano concert singer, Confederate sympathizer, wife of 21st US President [died before husband took office so posthumous US First Lady].

Lillie Rosa Minoka Hill (30 Aug 1876 – 18 Mar 1952 | St Regis Mohawk Reservation NY – Oneida WI) Mohawk, educator, physician, rural medical care pioneer, aka Yo-Da-Gent (She-Who-Cares), adopted by Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, only woman adopted by Oneida in 20th century.

Eleanor Mercein Kelly (30 Aug 1880 – 11 Oct 1986 | Milwaukee WI – Louisville KY) novelist, biographer, travel writer, short fiction author.

Margery Elizabeth Hoffman Smith (30 Aug 1888 – 08 Mar 1981 | Portland OR – San Mateo CA) artist, painter, lecturer, craftsperson, interior designer, aka Grand Dame of Arts and Crafts, WPA designer / director for Timberline Lodge on Mount Hood.

Shirley Booth (30 Aug 1898 – 16 Oct 1992 | Brooklyn NY – North Chatham MA) actress, born Thelma Booth Ford, well-known for television character Hazel, one of only 24 performers to achieve Triple Crown of Acting, won an Academy Award / two Primetime Emmy Awards / three Tony Awards.

26 Aug | Women’s Words & Works

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Eliza Maria Posey Street (26 Aug 1792 – 02 Feb 1847 | Fredericksburg VA – Agency IA) pioneer, folk / historical figure, settler wife of US Indian Agent, deeded 640 acres of Sac / Fox land.

Sarah [Annie] Turner Wittenmyer (26 Aug 1827 – 02 Feb 1900 | Adams County OH – Sanatoga PA) author, hymnist, historian, relief worker, social reformer, temperance activist.

Isabel Hampton Robb (26 Aug 1860 – 15 Apr 1910 | Welland ON – Cleveland OH) textbook author, first Superintendent of Nurses at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, nurse theorist / advocate / curriculum developer.

May Lamberton Becker (26 Aug 1873 – 27 Apr 1958 | New York NY – Epsom UK) editor, author, journalist, anthologist, literary critic, social / charitable activist, Reader’s Guide columnist, pro-British during WWII, active member of Books Across the Sea, namesake for Library Reading Room dedicated by T. S. Eliot [1960].

Zona Gale Breese (26 Aug 1874 – 27 Dec 1938 | Portage WI – Chicago IL) author, novelist, essayist, playwright, newspaper writer, education / pacifism / women’s rights activist.

17 Aug | Women’s Words & Works

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Charlotte Louise Bridges Forten Grimké (17 Aug 1837 – 23 Jul 1914 | Philadelphia PA – Washington DC) African-American poet, educator, journal writer, anti-slavery activist, volunteer Civil War Union nurse, first black teacher hired in two different US schools.

Laura de Force Gordon (17 Aug 1838 – 05 Apr 1907 | North East PA – Lodi CA) editor, lawyer, Spiritualist, women’s rights activist, second female attorney in California, first woman to run daily US newspaper [Stockton Daily Leader].

Caroline Bartlett Crane (17 Aug 1858 – 24 Mar 1935 | Hudson WI – Kalamazoo MI) educator, suffragist, journalist, civic reformer, Unitarian minister, aka America’s Housekeeper.

Geneva [Gene] Stratton-Porter (17 Aug 1863 – 06 Dec 1924 | Lagro IN – Los Angeles CA) author, naturalist, wildlife photographer, early female movie studio / production company founder.

11 Aug | Women’s Words & Works

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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.

30 Jul | Women’s Words & Works

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Emma Millinda Gillett (30 Jul 1852 – 23 Jan 1927 | Princeton WI – Washington DC) lawyer, clubwoman, National Woman’s Party member, women’s law education activist / advocate, first female Notary Public appointed by US President.

Julia Henrietta Gulliver (30 Jul 1856 – 25 Jul 1940 Norwich CT – Eustis FL) author, educator, philosopher, Rockford College president, second US woman awarded PhD.

Lucy Angeline Bacon (30 Jul 1857 – 17 Oct 1932 | Pitcairn NY – San Francisco CA) artist, art teacher, American Impressionist.

Elizabeth Ross Haynes (30 Jul 1883 – 26 Oct 1953 | Mount Willing AL – New York NY) author, YWCA advocate, civil rights activist, social reformer / researcher.

Bertha Fanning Taylor (30 Jul 1883 – 03 Jul 1980 | New York NY – Norfolk VA) curator, painter, author, educator, art critic, illustrator, art historian.

27 Jul | Women’s Words & Works

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Matilda Ann [Linda] Judson Richards (27 Jul 1841 – 16 Apr 1930 | West Potsdam NY – Boston MA) nurse, author, memoirist, nursing educator, first professional trained US nurse, established nursing schools in US and Japan, created first system for keeping individual medical records for hospitalized patients.

Helen Gerrells Stoddard (27 Jul 1850 – 31 Dec 1940 | Sheboygan WI – Dallas TX) educator, politician, community activist, Texas Women’s University co-founder, Women’s Christian Temperance Union leader, first woman to run for Congress in California.

Elizabeth Ann Plankinton (27 Jul 1853 – 1923 | Milwaukee WI – Lucerne CHE) humanitarian, philanthropist, artists / artisans patron, funded illustrated volume of Plankinton Memorial Book, funded first YWCA building in Milwaukee, aka Miss Lizzie and the Municipal Patroness.

Lucy Maynard Salmon (27 Jul 1853 – 14 Feb 1927 | Fulton NY – Poughkeepsie NY) author, historian, professor of history, new social history advocate.

Augusta Stowe Gullen (27 Jul 1857 – 25 Sep 1943 | Mount Pleasant ON – Toronto ON) physician, social reformer, women’s rights activist, first woman to gain a medical degree in Canada, Women’s College Hospital co-founder.

01 Jul | Women’s Words & Works

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Annis Boudinot Stockton (01 Jul 1736 – 06 Feb 1801 | Darby PA – Fieldsboro NJ) poet, essayist, publisher, playwright, political activist, aka Duchess of Morven, one of first women published in the Thirteen Colonies, sole Febmale member of secret pro-revolutionary American Whig Society.

Mary Olivia Nutting (01 Jul 1831 – 13 Feb 1910 | Randolph Center VT – South Hadley MA) librarian, journal keeper, Mount Holyoke College’s first librarian.

Florence Van Leer Earle Nicholson Coates (01 Jul 1850 – 06 Apr 1927 | Philadelphia PA – Philadelphia PA) poet, twice president of Browning Society, founded Contemporary Club of Philadelphia.

Velma Caldwell Melville (01 Jul 1858 – 25 Aug 1924 | Greenwood WI – Gainesville FL) poet, editor, prose writer.

Alice Barber Stephens (01 Jul 1858 – 13 Jul 1932 | Salem NJ – Rose Valley PA) painter, engraver, illustrator.

24 Jun | Women’s Words & Works

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Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis (24 Jun 1831 – 29 Sep 1910 | Washington PA – Mount Kisco NY) author, novelist, journalist.

Elizabeth [Lizzie] Sewall Alcott (24 Jun 1835 – 14 Mar 1858 | Boston MA – Concord MA) writer, literary figure, literary family member.

Ruth Miriam Randall Edström (24 Jun 1867 – 05 Oct 1944 | Wilmington IL – Stockholm SE) peace activist, Unitarian, expatriate, Swedish-American, women’s rights activist, participated in International Women’s Congress, worked on Hague peace conference.

Caroline Ellen Furness (24 Jun 1869 – 09 Feb 1936 | Cleveland OH – New York NY) author, astronomer, astronomy professor at Vassar College, women’s education advocate, first female PhD in Astronomy from Columbia University.

Beatrice Tonnesen (24 Jun 1871 – 12 May 1958 | Winneconne WI – Oshkosh WI) artist, inventor, photographer, Mars Ware sculpture innovator, pioneer in picture calendar photographs, developed process for silhouette photographs, pioneered use of live models in print advertising.