Here are a few of the women we’ll be talking about and reading about this month:

Eve, Adam’s wife
Sarah, Abraham’s wife
Rebekah, Isaac’s wife
Deborah, judge in Israel
Ruth, wife of Boaz
Esther, queen of Persia
Mary, mother of Jesus
Jane Austen
Pricilla Mullins, reading A Light Kindled: The Story of Pricilla Mullins by Tracy M. Leininger
Anne Bradstreet
Abigail Adams
Sacagawea, reading The land Beyond the Setting Sun: The Story of Sacagawea by Tracy M. Leininger
Dolley Madison, reading Unfading Beauty: The Story of Dolley Madison by Tracy M. Leininger.
Narcissa Whitman
Emily Dickinson
Louisa May Alcott, reading Louisa May and Mr. Thoreau’s Flute by Julie Dunlap and Marybeth Lorbiecki
Clara Barton
Mary Slessor
Beatrix Potter
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mary McLeod Bethune
Lottie Moon
Fanny Crosby
Mary Cassatt, reading Mary Cassatt by Mike Venezia, from the series Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists.
Nan Harper, reading Nothing Can Separate Us: The Story Nan Harper by Tracy Leininger
Tasha Tudor
Corrie and Betsie Ten Boom
Joni Eareckson Tada

I listed mostly Americans because we’re studying US history this year.
Also we’ll be reading My Great Aunt Arizona by Gloria Houston, Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie by Peter and Connie Roop, The Josefina Story Quilt by Eleanor Coerr, New Life, New Land: Women of Early Texas by Ann Fears Crawford, Bless the Lord: The 103rd Psalm illustrated by Johanna Bluedorn, and whatever else I find at the library. I may add to this post later as I come across other resources.