Wikipedia:WikiProject Shimer College/Editathon/To Do List
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High priority articles:
- To create:
- Joy James, African-American feminist writer
- Ada S. McKinley, founder of the South Side Settlement House, later known as Ada S. McKinley Community Services
- Florence Williams, anti-tuberculosis activist
- Alta Hulett, first woman admitted to the Illinois bar, and drafter of the law opening the professions to women
- To improve:
- Simone de Beauvoir (sections flagged for additional citations)
- The Complete Stories (O'Connor) (flagged for additional citations)
- Coming of Age in Samoa (flagged for unencyclopedic tone)
- Catherine of Sienna (flagged for expansion)
- In a Different Voice (currently a stub)
Full list
[edit]Notable Chicago women lacking articles
[edit]As of 2012-09-27. Working initially from this list.
A
[edit]- Merriel Abbott, choreographer and dance educator
- Nabia Abbott, first female member of the faculty at the Oriental Institute
- Mary Reynolds Aldis, avant-garde theater producer
- Rose Alschuler, child welfare activist and founder of nursery schools throughout Chicagoland
- Mary Agnes Amberg, director of the Madonna Center settlement 1913-1962
- Sadie American, influential reformer and activist
- Tennessee Anderson, sculptor, music educator, and wife of Sherwood Anderson
- Violette Anderson, first African-American woman admitted to practice in the US District Court, Eastern Division
- Joan Arai, Uptown education activist
- Ruth Austin, head of the Gads Hill Center settlement house
B
[edit]- Lizzie Barbe
- Macena Barton
- Therese Benedek
- Enella Benedict
- Bessie Bennett
- Cornelia De Bey
- Jessie Binford
- Kath Blackshear
- Anita Blain
- Dorothea Blender
- Katharine Blunt
- Maudelle Bousfield
- Louise Bowen
- Rebecca Brenner
- Alice Brimson, president of the Baptist Missionary Training School
- Fritzi Brod
- Kate Buckingham
- Carrie E. Bullock
- Clara Louise Burnham
- Fanny Amanda Butcher
C
[edit]- Margery Carlson
- Helen Carpenter
- Rue Carpenter
- Rosa Cassettari
- Mary Catherwood
- Augusta Chapin
- Flora Cheney
- Stefania Chmielinska
- Elisabeth Christman
- Helen Cirese
- Marion Weber Claire
- Herma Clark
- Kate Cleary
- Annie Coburn
- Mary Coffey
- Flora Cooke
- Lydia Coonley-Ward
- Caroline Corbin
- Bernice Cory
- Stella Counselbaum
- Martha Crane
- Florence Criley
- Rumah Crouse
- Margery Currey
D
[edit]- Margaret Dagenais
- Petra Dahl
- Donna Trina Davila
- Frances Dickinson
- Annetta Dieckmann
- Kate Newell Doggett
- Emma Dryer
- M. Theresa Dudzik
- Ethel Sturges Dummer
E
[edit]F
[edit]- Matilda Fenberg
- Sisters Fischer
- Bertha Floistad
- Lucy Flower
- Yokelund Foin
- Edna Foley
- Frances Foy
- Eleanor Freer
- Harriet Fulmer
G
[edit]- Irene Gaines
- Isabella Garnett
- Eliza Garrett
- Walburga Gehring
- Helen Geraghty
- Alice Gerstenberg, influential playwright and novelist
- Ursula Gestefeld
- Frances Glessner
- Marion Gridley
- Edith Grimm
- Rose Marie Gyles
H
[edit]- Sara Hallowell
- Elizabeth Harbert
- Ruth Hetzel Harshaw
- Caroline Hedger
- Helen Hefferan
- Ellen Henrotin
- Genevieve Herrick
- Mary Herrick
- Frances Herskovits
- Lillian Herstein
- Bessie Hillman
- Cecilia Himebaugh
- Mary Wood Hinman
- Lizzie Holmes
- Bertha Van Hoosen
- Chauncina White Horse
- Mary Ann Hubbard
- Alta Hulett, first woman admitted to the Illinois bar, and drafter of the law opening the professions to women
- Caroline Huling
- Josefa Humpal-Zeman
- Olga Huncke
- Mary Hurley
I
[edit]- Anna Ickes
- Miyoko Ito
- Carrie Jabobs-Bond
- Bertha Jaques
- Helen Jarrell
- Paraskeve Voula Javaras
- Clara Judson
- Myrna Kassel
- Irene Kawin
- May Kerr
- Helen Koch
- Esther Kohn
- Alvina Krause
- Hazel Kyrk
L
[edit]- Martha Lamb
- Vida Latham
- Stefania Laudyn
- Clara Laughlin
- Djane Lavoie-Herz
- Rose Hum Lee
- Rosa Lemberg
- Mollie Levitas
- Beatrice Levy
- Frances Lillie
- Margaret Lin
- Anna Livshis
- Lola Maverick Lloyd
- Minnie Low
- Laura Lunde
- Evelyn Lundeen
- Bertha Lyons
M
[edit]- Annie MacLean
- Leona Malek
- Elizabeth Maloney
- Ellen Martin
- Lena McCauley
- Nettie McCormick
- Annette McCrea
- Mary McDowell
- M. McGrath
- Caroline McIlvaine
- Ada S. McKinley, founder of the South Side Settlement House, later known as Ada S. McKinley Community Services
- M. Helena McMillan
- Edna McRae
- Mary McWhinnie
- Marie Mergler
- Iris Merrill
- Lucy Meyer
- Emily Miller
- Rosamond Mirabella
- Mary Monholland
- Mary Montay
- Harriet Moody
- Harriet Moroe
- Chiyo Murakami
- Mother E. Murphy
- Othelia Myhrman
N
[edit]- Edith de Nancrede
- Emily Napieralski
- Esther Natkin
- Ida Gray Nelson
- Julia Newberry
- Mollie Newbury
- Margaret Nice
- Anna Nicholes
O
[edit]- Anne Oberndorfer
- Mary Agatha O'Brien
- Jessie Lloyd O'Connor
- M. Ellen O'Hanlon
- Lottie O'Neill
- Archange Ouilmette
- Genie Owens
- Mansie O'Young
P
[edit]- Alice Peurala, first woman to lead a steelworkers' local
- Lucy Palermo
- Pauline Palmer
- Laura Van Pappelendam
- Bertha Parker
- Mary Marjorie Pebworth
- Laura Pelham
- Anna J. Peterson
- Stella Petrakis
- Natalie Picchiotti
- Bessie Pierce
- Ida Platt
- Hilda Polacheck
- Pessie Pomerantz
- Georgia Pooley
- Eliza Porter
- Annabel Prescott
- Tobey Prinz
- Lidia Pucinska
- Harriet Pullman
- Jennie Purvin
- Alice Putnam, educator and founder of the Chicago Froebel Association
R
[edit]- Margaret Redfield
- Nannie Reis
- Harriet Rice
- Adena Rich, followed Jane Addams as head resident of Hull House and director of the Immigrants' Protective League
- Cora Richmond
- Angelina Rico
- Lydia Roberts
- Ina Robertson
- Increase Robinson
- Alice Roullier, gallery owner and cofounder of the Arts Club of Chicago
- Anne Rudolph
S
[edit]- Bozena Salava
- Theofila Samolinska
- Esther Saperstein
- Maria Saucedo
- Minna Schmidt
- Dolores Schorsch
- Flora Seymour
- Sonia Sharnova
- Katharine Sharp
- Katherine Sharp
- Annie Shaw
- Madeleine Sikes
- May Wood Simons
- Amy Skenandore
- Eleanor Slagle
- Julia Holmes Smith
- Lucy Madden Smith
- Ethel Grace Spears
- Bertha Kaplan Spector
- Ingeborg Sponland
- Norma Stahle
- Elisa Stigler
- Frances Strain
- Ebba Sundstrom
- Imayo Suzuki
- Ada Sweet, first female US pension agent
T
[edit]- Marion Talbot, first Dean of Women in the US and co-founder of the American Association of University Women
- Lea Taylor, head resident at the Chicago Commons settlement 1922-1954
- Julia Thecla
- Narcissa Thorne, noted miniaturist
- Mabel Landrum Torrey
- Charlotte Towle
- Grace Wilbur Trout
- Corinne True
- B. Fain Tucker
- Beatrice Tucker
- Ruth Tunnicliff
- Alice Kellogg Tyler, leading 19th-century Chicago woman artist
V
[edit]W
[edit]- Catharine Waite, suffragist, publisher and founder of the Hyde Park Seminary
- Lucy Waite, leading early Chicago woman surgeon, medical superintendent of Mary Thompson Hospital
- Judith Waller, first general manager of WGU
- Florence Walrath, founder of the Cradle Society adoption agency
- Chi Che Wang, biochemist and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Mary Waring, leader in the National Association of Colored Women
- Celia Warshawsky, advocate for the deaf
- Gladys Welge, musical prodigy and educator
- Clara Welles, silversmith and founder of the Kalo Shop
- Dora Wells, principal and education reformer
- Mary Wicker, painter and sculptor]]
- Frances L. Willard, itinerant founder of women's seminaries
- Florence Williams, anti-tuberculosis activist
- Mary J. Wilmarth, suffragist and activist, first president of the Women's City Club of Chicago
- Halena Wilson, longtime head of the women's auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
- Mary Bolton Wirth, activist and public housing administrator
- Celia Woolley, founding member of the NAACP and founder of the Frederick Douglass Center
- Edith Wyatt, novelist, satirist and literary critic
Y
[edit]- Rachelle Yarros, early professor of obstetrics at University of Illinois College of Medicine, leader in social hygiene and birth control movements
Notable American women educators lacking articles
[edit]All red as of 2012-09-29.
- Alice P. Barrows
- Mary Carroll Craig Bradford
- Marie Joseph Butler
- Mary Regis Casserly
- Sucheng Chan
- Elizabeth Avery Colton
- Lucretia Crocker
- Willystine Goodsell
- Helen Heffernan
- Mary Atkins Lynch
- Lucy Sprague Mitchell
- Caroline F. Putnam
- Polingaysi Qoyawayma
- Caroline Elizabeth Bushyhead Quarles
- Julia Richman
- Helen Mansfield Robinson
- Blandina Segale
- Hilda Worthington Smith
- Emily Eliza Ingham Staunton
- Lois Meek Stolz
- Marion Talbot
- Joyce Sachiko Tsunoda
- Martha Beulah Mann Yallup