American Women's Firsts with books 1900s

 This is focused on American Women and from this Wikipedia page & this page. I am finding books that the women have written, written about them or books that mention them. 

1900-1908

1. Margaret Abbott - 1st American woman to win 1st place in an  Olympic event. She never knew that she was the first woman to win first place in golf for the Olympics. Her mother entered the competition as well.

2. Nannie Helen Burroughts.

3. Maggie L. Walker - First African-American woman to found and become president of a bank.

4. May Sutton -  1st American woman to win Wimbledon. 

5. Dorothy Tyler - 1st known American woman jockey.

6. Anna Jarvis - First Mother's Day Observed .. driving force for this holiday.

7. U.S. Navy nurses called Sacred Twenty were all women. First women to officially serve the U.S. Navy.

8. Julia Ward Howe - 1st woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

By Unknown - http://www.imobsessedwiththis.com/2012/08/01/remarkable-usa-women-in-the-olympics-part-i-1886-1960/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25113118
By Naval photographer - U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2774588
By Photographer unidentified - American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits, 1897 (revised edition), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49347605
























By Unknown - http://chswg.binghamton.edu/kelley.htm, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8198409

10 American Women's Firsts with books! 17th & 18th century

Welcome to a list containing historical American women first to do [insert accomplishment].

In celebration of Women's History Month I'm using Wikipedia  about historical American women & listing alongside the information a book about the women. Some women I did not find any book about them. If you know of any let me know!

1) 1635, Anne Hutchinson the first American woman to start a Protestant Sect

2) 1640, Anne Bradstreet first published poet in the colonies.

3) 1647, Margaret Brent first American woman to demand the right to vote.

4) 1649 Mary Hammon & Goodwife Norman first American women convicted of lesbian activity. I couldn't find a book about them. If you know of one please let me know, thanks!

5) 1700,  Henrietta Johnston first female working artist in the colonies.

6) 1750, Jane Colden first woman in America to win distinction as a botanist. 

7 ) 1756, Lydia Taft - first woman in the colonies to legally vote. Couldn't find a book about her. If you know of one let me know!

8) 1762, Ann Franklin first female newspaper editor in America. Couldn't find a book about her. If you know of one let me know!

9) 1776, Margaret Corbin first woman to assume the role of soldier in the American Revolution & received pension for it. Couldn't find a book about her. If you know of one let me know!

10) Hannah Adams, Hanna first American woman to become a professional writer and Hannah Wilkinson Slater first woman granted a patent.