Wikipedia:WikiProject Shimer College/Editathon/To Do List
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
editNotable Chicago women lacking articles
editAs 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
editF
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
editW
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
editAll 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