1800s
Dorothea Lynde Dix (04 apr 1802 – 17 jul 1887 | Hampden ME – Trenton NJ) nurse, author, mental health patient advocate, insane asylum activist / reformer
Eunice Hale Waite Cobb (27 jan 1803 – 02 may 1880 | Kennebunk ME – East Boston MA) author, activist, memoirist, public speaker
Sybil Jones Jones (28 feb 1808 – 04 dec 1873 | Brunswick ME – Dirigo Corner ME) Quaker minister, foreign missionary
1810s
Mary Richardson Walker (01 apr 1811 – 21 nov 1877 | Baldwin ME – Forest Grove OR) diarist, frontier missionary to Spokan Indians, co-founded Columbia Maternal Association, one of first six women to travel over Rocky Mountains
1820s
Eliza Allen Billings (27 jan 1826 – 1866 | Eastport ME – Eastport ME) memoirist, adventurer, disguised male soldier George Mead in Mexican-American War
1830s
Rebecca Sophia Clarke (22 feb 1833 – 10 aug 1906 | Norridgewock ME – Norridgewock ME) aka Sophie May, children’s serial novelist
Augusta Pierce Tabor (29 mar 1833 – 30 jan 1895 | Augusta ME – Pasadena CA) folk figure, social activist, mining entrepreneur / millionaire
Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (03 apr 1835 – 14 aug 1921 | Calais ME – Deer Island MA) poet, novelist, short story writer
Persis Foster Eames Albee (30 may 1836 – 07 dec 1914 | Newry ME – Templeton MA) aka PFE Albee and The First Avon Lady, women’s business trainer / advocate, professional saleswoman for California Perfume Company [later Avon Products]
Ellen Russell Emerson (16 jan 1837 – 12 jun 1907 | New Sharon ME – Cambridge MA) author, sketcher, ethnologist
Abba Louisa Goold Woolson (30 apr 1838 – 06 feb 1921 | Windham Center ME – Portland ME) poet, author, lecturer, historian, women’s dress reform advocate
Anna Eliza Hardy (26 jan 1839 – 15 dec 1934 | Bangor ME – Jamaica Plain MA) artist, floral still-life specialist
1840s
Jennie Drinkwater Conklin (14 apr 1841 – 28 apr 1907 | Portland ME – New Vernon NJ) author, editor, social welfare activist
Julia Thompson von Stosch Schayer (07 jan 1842 – 29 mar 1928 | Deering ME – Bronxville NY) short fiction author
Elizabeth Armstrong Reed (16 may 1842 – 18 jun 1915 | Winthrop ME – Chicago IL) editor, author, Oriental scholar
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]
Ursula Newell Gestefeld (22 apr 1845 – 22 oct 1921 | Augusta ME – Chicago IL) Christian Scientist, New Thought author, women’s press founder
Clara L. Brown Dyer (13 mar 1849 – 02 mar 1931 | Cape Elizabeth ME – Portland ME) artist, reader, lecturer, landscape painter, social club woman, one of first members of the Society of Art and the Portland Art League, organizing president of National Society of United States Daughters of 1812 in State of Maine
Alzina Parsons Stevens (27 may 1849 – 03 jun 1900 | Parsonsfield ME – Chicago IL) journalist, labor leader, settlement worker
1850s
Martha Gallison Moore-Avery (06 apr 1851 – 08 aug 1929 | Steuben ME – Medford MA) author, religious / political activist
Effie Carlton Crockett (04 mar 1856 – 07 jan 1940 | Rockland ME – Boston MA) actress, composer, singer-songwriter, created “Rock-A-Bye Baby”
1860s
Alice Harriman Browne (12 mar 1861 – 24 dec 1925 | Newport ME – Hollywood CA) poet, editor, novelist, publisher, short story writer, nonfiction author, aka The Only Woman Publisher in the World
Fannie Pearson Hardy Eckstorm (18 jun 1865 – 31 dec 1946 | Brewer ME – Brewer ME) author, folklorist, ornithologist
Susan Marcia Oakes Woodbury (20 jun 1865 – 07 nov 1913 | South Berwick ME – Ogunquit ME) artist, author, painter, Dutch portrait specialist, Dutch Masters art commentator
Alice May Douglas (28 jun 1865 – 06 jan 1943 | Bath ME – Bath ME) poet, peace activist, children’s author, newspaper editor, founder and composer of Peace Makers’ Band, head of Women’s Christian Temperance Union’s Peace and Arbitration
Maxine Elliott (05 feb 1868 – 05 mar 1940 | Rockland ME – Cannes, France) born Jessie Dermott, film / stage actress, theater founder / owner / manager
1870s
Alice Mary Baldwin (24 jan 1879 – 12 oct 1960 | Lewiston ME – Durham NC) American educator, historian, memoirist, non-fiction author, women’s history activist / proponent, academic dean / administrator
1880s
Edith Nourse Rogers (19 mar 1881 – 10 sep 1960 | Saco ME – Boston MA) aviator, politician, social welfare activist, created US GI Bill, veterans advocate, Women’s Army Corps founder, longest tenured US State representative
Mary Gould Davis (13 feb 1882 – 15 apr 1956 | Bangor ME – New York NY) author, librarian, storyteller, wrote about / practiced the art of storytelling
Ninetta [Nettie] May Runnals (14 jan 1885 – 01 jun 1980 | Dover-Foxcroft ME – Waterville ME) Colby College Dean of Women, student / faculty gender equality activist / advocate, founded Waterville ME branch of American Association of University Women [AAUW]
Mary Ellen Chase (24 feb 1887 – 28 jul 1973 | Blue Hill ME – Northampton MA) critic, novelist, educator, essayist, children’s author
1890s
Edna St. Vincent Millay (22 feb 1892 – 19 oct 1950 | Rockland ME – Austerlitz NY) poet, activist, playwright
1900s
Marion E. Martin (14 jan 1900 – 10 jan 1987 | Bangor ME – Hallowell ME) politician, founded National Federation of Republican Women’s Clubs
Dorothy Clarke Wilson (09 may 1904 – 26 mar 2003 | Gardiner ME – Orono ME) author, playwright
1910s
Marjorie Craig Crowley (09 mar 1912 – 20 feb 2003 | Bangor ME – Naples FL) self-help / fitness author, Elizabeth Arden Salon of Exercise Director
Dorothy Estelle Murphy Healy (21 mar 1914 – 16 oct 1990 | Boothbay ME – Portland ME) curator, educator, historian, turkey farmer
Norma Bradford (19 mar 1915 – 07 jun 2014 | Wayne ME – Middletown CT) artist, historian, social activist, federal IRS worker, one of first WWII Navy WAVES
1920s
1930s
Jessica Gagnon McClintock (19 jun 1930 – Presque Isle ME) former schoolteacher, retired fashion designer, CEO / founder / president of women’s retail apparel company
Nancy Randall Clark (06 may 1938 – 28 dec 2015 | Freeport ME – Freeport ME) state politician, schoolteacher, civic / social activist
1940s
Eugenia Theresa Thomas (10 jun 1941 – 27 oct 2015 | Indian Island ME – Indian Island ME) Penobscot poet, writer, storyteller, visual artist, social worker, known as ssispis
Martha Fuller Clark (14 mar 1942 – York ME) state politician, community activist, architectural historian
Andrea Louise Martin (15 jan 1947 – Portland ME) singer, author, actress, American-Canadian
Olympia Jean Bouchles Snowe (21 feb 1947 – Augusta ME) author, politician, former Maine Senator, former First Lady of Maine
Tabitha Jane Spruce King (24 mar 1949 – Old Town ME) novelist, nonfiction author, social / literacy activist
Angela Hill (28 mar 1949 – Portland ME) journalist, talk show host, documentary filmmaker
1950s
Susan Tifft (14 feb 1951 – 01 apr 2010 | Rumford ME – Cambridge MA) author, journalist, educator
Dorianne Laux (10 jan 1952 – Augusta ME) poet, creative writing professor
Elizabeth Strout (06 jan 1956 – Portland ME) novelist, academic, short fiction writer, Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction
Lyn Mikel Brown (12 feb 1956 – Vanceboro ME) author, essayist, academic, feminist, community activist, Colby College Director of Women’s, Gender, Sexuality Studies
Cynthia McFadden (27 may 1956 – Lewiston ME) author, Crohn’s disease activist, news host / anchor / correspondent
Pamela Dorothy [Pam] Iorio (27 apr 1959 – Waterville ME) author, politician, Tampa FL Mayor
Victoria Lynn Rowell (10 may 1959 – Portland ME) actress, dancer, memoirist, foster care activist