Women | CAN-NB | New Brunswick

1830s

Hannah E. Barker Taylor (18 aug 1835 – unknown | Fredericton, New Brunswick – Pasadena CA) poet, singer, hymnist, English-Native American-Canadian, Woman’s Christian Temperance Union member


1840s


1850s

Philomène Belliveau (20 jul 1854 – 17 mar 1940 | Memramcook, New Brunswick – Rimouski, Quebec) Acadian artist, portrait painter


1860s

Mary Blanche O’Sullivan (30 apr 1860 – unknown | Saint John, New Brunswick – unknown) editor, writer, teacher, naturalized American, editor-in-chief of Donahoe’s Magazine, member of New England Woman’s Press Association

Margherita Arlina Hamm (29 apr 1867 – 17 dec 1907 | St Stephen, New Brunswick – New York NY) author, journalist, suffragist, magazine editor, war correspondent 


1870s


1880s


1890s

Lily May Perry (05 jan 1895 – 11 mar 1992 | Havelock, New Brunswick, Canada – Hingham MA) Canadian-American author, botanist, illustrator

Lydia Giberson (01 jun 1899 – 07 apr 1994 | Bath, New Brunswick – Orange CA) author, essayist, psychiatrist, industrial psychiatry pioneer, first female assistant vice-president of Metropolitan Life Insurance


1900s


1910s


1920s

Charlotte Matilda MacLeod (12 nov 1922 – 14 jan 2005 | Bath, New Brunswick – Lewiston ME) mystery fiction writer

Dorothy Edith Gilman (25 jun 1923 – 02 feb 2012 | New Brunswick NJ – Rye Brook NY) art teacher, memoirist, women’s mystery novelist, known for Mrs. Pollifax series

Pat Martin Bates (25 jun 1927 – Saint John, New Brunswick) artist, printmaker, monoprint innovator

Antonine Maillet (10 may 1929 – Bouctouche, New Brunswick) scholar, novelist, playwright


1930s

Mary Frances West Pratt (15 mar 1935 – 14 aug 2018 | Fredericton, New Brunswick – St. John’s, Newfoundland) artist, politician, essayist, still life realist painter

Shirley Bear (16 may 1936 – Negootgook Reserve, New Brunswick) Tobique First Nation poet, artist, author, activist, photographer

Gertrude [Ann] Breault (15 dec 1938 – Moncton, New Brunswick) Canadian teacher, physician, journalist, philanthropist, former politician

Margaret Doody (21 sep 1939 – Saint John, New Brunswick) academic author, feminist literary critic, literature professor, historical detective fiction novelist, helped found PhD in Literature Program at Notre Dame


1940s

Marie Nicole [Édith] Butler (27 jul 1942 – Paquetville, New Brunswick) author, folklorist, Acadian singer-songwriter

Marie-Marthe Aldéa Landry (27 dec 1945 – Sainte-Cécile, New Brunswick) lawyer, politician, public servant, former Bank of Canada director

Penny Cousineau-Levine (31 mar 1947 – Fredericton, New Brunswick) artist, author, curator, professor, photography theorist


1950s

Gracia Couturier (14 aug 1951 – Edmundston, New Brunswick) author, haiku poet, educator, playwright, children’s writer, founding director university theatre centre

Raymonde April (23 jun 1953 – Moncton, New Brunswick) academic, photographer