31 Days of Notable Women- Laurie Colwin, Hall of Fame novelist

Laurie Colwin (June 14, 1944 – October 24, 1992) was born in Manhattan, New York City, and grew up in Lake Ronkonkoma, on Long Island, Philadelphia and Chicago, the second child of Estelle Colwin (née Woolfson) and Peter Colwin. In Philadelphia, she attended the Cheltenham High School, which inducted her posthumously into their Hall of Fame in 1999.  Colwin is the author of five novels.

Source: http://www.amazon.com/Laurie-Colwin/e/B000APXVR4

31 Days of Notable Women- Kathleen Jessie Raine, British poet

Kathleen Jessie Raine was born in London in 1908, where she grew up; taking on a number of unsatisfactory jobs. Through one of her later jobs she met the nephew of the Indian mystic Rama Coomaraswamy Tambimuttu, who invited her to contribute to his new magazine, Poetry London, she did of course, and soon developed a lifelong passion for all things Indian.

Source: http://www.poemhunter.com/kathleen-jessie-raine/

31 Days of Notable Women-Katie Fehrenbacher, women in green economic development

Katie Fehrenbacher,  Senior Writer,  Greentech Editor,  GigaOm

Fehrenbacher has been a reporter covering technology for close to a decade, and has covered green technology for the past five years.  She is a Senior Writer and Features Editor for GigaOM. Previously she was a reporter for Red Herring, an editor at Engadget and a reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun.

Source: http://pro.gigaom.com/members/katiefehren/profile

31 Days of Notable Women- Isabella V. Crawford, Canadian poet

Isabella Valancy Crawford (25 December 1850 – 12 February 1887) was an Irish-born Canadian writer and poet. She was one of the first Canadians to make a living as a freelance writer.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_Valancy_Crawford

31 Days of Notable Women- quotable Elizabeth Robins

“I am conscious that in talking and writing to my nearest and most trusted friends I sometimes suppress and I sometimes embroider.” – Elizabeth Robins-1895

Elizabeth Robins was an American actress, author, playwright and women’s freedom fighter (1862-1952).

http://www.jsu.edu/depart/english/robins/erchron.htm

31 Days of Notable Women- Katharine Tynan, Irish poet/novelist

Katharine Tynan (23 January 1861 – 2 April 1931) was an Irish-born writer, known mainly for her novels and poetry. After her marriage in 1898 to the writer and barrister Henry Albert Hinkson (1865–1919) she usually wrote under the name Katharine Tynan Hinkson (or Katharine Tynan-Hinkson or Katharine Hinkson-Tynan). Of their three children, Pamela Hinkson (1900–1982) was also known as a writer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Tynan

31 Days of Notable Women- Virginia Woolf, quotable woman

Quotable Women-

“If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or ‘our’ country, let it be understood, soberly and rationally between us, that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits which I have not shared and probably will not share; but not to gratify my instincts, or protect either myself or my country. For, the outside will say, in fact, as a woman, I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world…” -Virginia Woolf  (1882 – 1941)- England

http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/lesson14.html

31 Days of Notable Women- Dorothy Thompson, war correspondent

Dorothy Thompson was born in Lancaster, New York, in 1894. While studying at Syracuse University she became a suffragist and was involved in the campaign to obtain the vote for women. After the First World War Thompson went to Europe to become a freelance writer. After working for the Philadelphia Public Ledger the New York Post appointed her head of its Berlin bureau in Germany.

In 1928 Thompson married novelist Sinclair Lewis. After interviewing Adolf Hitler in 1931 she wrote about the dangers of him winning power in Germany. A strong opponent of Hitler and his government, in 1934 Thompson became the first American correspondent to be expelled from Nazi Germany.

Source: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAthompsonD.htm

31 Days of Notable Women- Charlotte Odlum Smith, writer/freedom fighter

Charlotte Odlum Smith (1840 – 1917) was a reformer, magazine editor, champion of women inventors, and lobbyist for working women, public health, and safety in the nineteenth-century United States.

She also became involved in the fight to win a more equal role for women in the great World’s Columbian Exposition of 1892-3. Specifically, she fought for more recognition of Queen Isabella’s enabling role in Columbus’s discoveries, and for women inventors. In 1892 she founded a third periodical, the Woman Inventor, and crusaded for a permanent exhibition of women’s inventive work in Washington, DC. Her major achievement for women inventors, however, was persuading the Patent Office to issue a list of all female holders of US patents to that date (1883).

In addition to working through legislatures and organizations, Charlotte Smith also took direct action, personally helping many poor women and “underdogs,” and providing housing for poor working girls with her own money. During these years (1880s – early 1890s), she was one of the best-known women in America, with literally hundreds of articles appearing about her in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and smaller newspapers as far away as Montana and Hawaii.

The last chapter of Smith’s life took place in Boston, Massachusetts where she continued to work for her main cause, the welfare and advancement of working women, in the legislatures of Massachusetts and Maryland, as well as in Congress. Her fame diminished in her last years, and when she died in Boston in 1917, she was buried in a pauper’s grave.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Odlum_Smith

“31 Days of Notable Women” my special blog is coming for Women’s History Month!

Every March I post one blog per day on notable women and their amazing accomplishments. Come join me to learn about women in science, women inventors, politicians and poets, freedom fighters and artists.

Many of these women have been buried in history, their stories ignored or never told…..meet amazing people whose voices have been silenced, but who are finally being given the credit they deserve!

Subscribe to the blog so you won’t miss a single entry,
Diane Tegarden