Early Femmefen

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The Women Fen Don’t See
or, Women in Fandom Before Tricon[edit]

By Leah Zeldes Smith
Reprinted from Unsettled 73 (October 23, 2021).
© 2021 by Leah Zeldes Smith. Used with permission.

Tricon, the 1966 Worldcon, was notable in fanhistory for a number of reasons, but among them is that it screened the premiere of a new TV show: Star Trek. And after that came the deluge.

Common fannish lore says there were hardly any women in fandom before the Enterprise boldly flew across our television screens and fandom grew exponentially — but common fannish lore, and the poor memories and male fanhistorians who fed into it, are wrong.

Men did outnumber women in early 20th-century fandom, yet there were many female actifen even during fandom’s earliest days. (It’s worth noting that, by 1959, fanspeak had developed two nongender-specific pronouns, heesh and hiser.) René Walling’s research into Worldcon membership demographics, from 1939–60, shows that women made up roughly 20 percent of the attendance at early Worldcons. While Sam Moskowitz recalled that at the first Worldcon in 1939, “Of the 30 women in attendance only about 7 were interested in science fiction, the others were wives, sisters, and friends” — how could he know what they were interested in?

Much early fanboy grousing about the lack of women in fandom really meant not enough single — i.e., available — women. As Lee Hoffman recollected in Fanhistorica 1 (May 1976, p. 10): 

In those dark ages, a major complaint in fandom was the shortage of femfans. There were some, but not enough to go around. Young male fans in search of intellectual companionship often complained that all the active femfans came into fandom on the coattails of male fans (as girl friends or wives) and were subsequently unavailable. At the same time that they were voicing these complaints, they seemed to be taking a perverse chauvinistic pride in the predominant maleness of fandom.

Jack Speer was positively dismissive back in 1944, writing in Fancyclopedia 1, “The great majority of fans are male, and it has been asserted that females cannot be the psychological type of the s-f fan, but,” he acknowledged, “there are several dyed-in-the-wool fannes to refute this.” However, he went on to say, “In addition there are a lot of sweethearts, wives, daughters, sisters, etc. of the he-fans, who tag along at fan gatherings, make some appearance in the fanzines, and assist in dirty work like mimeoing.” As if all that weren’t fanac!

It’s important, though, when discussing fandom’s attitudes toward women, to compare with those of the macrocosm of the respective eras. Recollect that the first Worldcon was fewer than 20 years after the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote.

In general, the men of fandom were at least as welcoming of women in their events and doings as other men of their times, if not more so. Fandom was never, at least overtly, considered a boys’ club emblazoned, “Girls keep out!” The surprise and delight when Lee Hoffman turned out to be Hoffwoman shows that.

Male fans were, however, as blind as their mundane contemporaries to women’s accomplishments. The first Worldcon to have a female goh was back in 1946, but E. Mayne Hull was named jointly with her husband and collaborator, A. E. van Vogt. It wasn’t until 1975 that a woman pro, Ursula Le Guin, was honored solo.

The first woman to win any Hugo was Elinor Busby, for Best Fanzine in 1960, but that was jointly with her husband and two other men.[1] It took till 1988 for a zine edited by a woman alone to win — Pat Mueller’s Texas SF Inquirer — and not only was it a clubzine, but before the rocket was awarded, FACT, the sponsoring club, had taken the editorship away from her in favor of a man.

Worldcon didn’t name its first female fan goh until 1972: Juanita Coulson, but, again, she shared the honor with her husband, Buck. The first femmefan a Worldcon honored on her own was Lee Hoffman in 1982; it took another 30 years till the next — second-generation fan Peggy Rae Sapienza — in 2012!

Yes, some women first entered the microcosm as wives, girlfriends and daughters of male fen (or sisters, cousins and aunts), but they did their share of writing for the fmz, cranking the mimeos, organizing the clubs, designing and sewing the costumes and working on the cons. Five women — Dirce Archer, Noreen Falasca, Julian May, Anna Sinclare Moffatt and Ella Parker — chaired Worldcons before 1966. They count.

And — they were editing, writing and drawing for the prozines, too. We lay claim here to some female pros who may or may not have been especially fannish, but early in fanhistory, pros and fans formed one close-knit community in a way they haven’t in more recent times.

Women have been an important part of the science fiction community since Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley invented the genre in 1818.

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  1. ↑ The next year’s award went to Earl Kemp for Who Killed Science Fiction?, according to TheHugoAwards.org as well as contemporary accounts. But if you look at the fanzine itself, you’ll see it’s credited to Earl and Nancy Kemp! Similarly, the first major fanzine index is historically attributed to R. D. Swisher, but the zines credit F. N. Swisher, his wife, as well.



Women in Fandom by 1966[edit]

This list of femmefen active by 1966, culled from convention and club membership lists, fanzines, fan directories and discussion on the Facebook Fanhistory group, is very much a work in progress, and is surely missing names. Moreover, such information as exists for many women is quite sketchy. Please do add what you can, especially for the redlinked names.

Note that lots of women had numerous name changes, so the person you’re thinking of may be there under another variant. (See “The Naming of Names.”)

  1. Wendayne Ackerman (Mondelle / Tilly Porjes / Mathilde Wahrman)
  2. Gillian “Jill” Adams
  3. Rose Alberti ff
  4. Beverly Amers (DeWeese)
  5. MayBelle Anshutz ff
  6. Florence S. Anderson (Stephenson)
  7. Karen Anderson (Kruse)
  8. Ruby A. Anderson
  9. Virginia Anderson (Combs / “Nanek”)
  10. Valeria K. Anjoorian (“Valkon”)
  11. Dirce Archer
  12. Eleanor Arnason
  13. Lynne Aronson
  14. Abby Lu Ashley
  15. Pauline Ashwell (Whitby)
  16. Sheila Ashworth
  17. Chris Atkinson
  18. Delcie Austin (Stuart)
  19. Betty Ballantine (Elizabeth Norah Jones)
  20. Irene Baron (Scortia)
  21. Evelyn Barrett ff
  22. Terry Bartfield (Terri Pinckard / Merat / Merrit)
  23. Jonne Evans Bates (Hanlon)
  24. Susie Beam (Rivers)
  25. Margaret Bertrand
  26. Judi Beatty-Sephton
  27. Virginia Beebe (Hoskins)
  28. Martha Beck
  29. Kay Becker
  30. Doris Beller
  31. Josie Benderavage
  32. Bess Benjamin
  33. Zelda Benowitz
  34. Beryl Bentcliffe (Watkins)
  35. Betty Berg
  36. Phyllis Berg (King)
  37. Jean Berman
  38. Ruth Berman
  39. Ruth Bernstein
  40. Diane Berry
  41. Margaret Bertrand
  42. Sandi Bethke (Gerber / Maia Nemzek)
  43. Helena Binns (Margaret Duce / Roberts)
  44. Judy Blish (Judith A. Lawrence)
  45. Barbara Bliss
  46. Gilda Blitzer
  47. Perdita Boardman (Lilly / Nelson / Girsdansky)
  48. Jean Bogert
  49. Shirley Booher
  50. Irene Boothroyd
  51. Barbara Bovard (Edge) ff
  52. Leigh Brackett
  53. Helen Bradleigh (Joan Domnick)
  54. Marion Zimmer Bradley
  55. Jacqui Bratton
  56. Catherine M. Brennan
  57. Kay Brickman
  58. Rohelen Brickman
  59. Marjorie Broadbent
  60. Marlene Broderick
  61. Beverly Bronson
  62. Jacqueline G. Brooks
  63. Rosel G. Brown
  64. Beverly Browne
  65. Margaret Brundage
  66. Marjorie Brunner
  67. Doris Pitkin Buck
  68. Daphne Buckmaster (Bradley)
  69. Edna Budrys (Duna)
  70. Pamela Bulmer (Buckmaster)
  71. Thelma Bunch
  72. Isabel Burbee
  73. Joyce Burke
  74. Kay Burwell
  75. Elinor Busby
  76. Freda Busfield
  77. Linda Bushyager (Eyster)
  78. JoAnne Calkins
  79. Doña Campbell (Stewart / Smith)
  80. Peg Campbell (Winter)
  81. Cynthia Carey
  82. Irene Carnell
  83. Carol Carr
  84. Edith Carr
  85. Gertrude M. Carr
  86. Miriam Carr (Miri Dyches / Knight / Lloyd)
  87. Jean Carrol (Jane McClain / Engel)
  88. Phyllis Carter
  89. Ann Chamberlain
  90. Penny Chandler (Bale)
  91. Evelyn Dolores Chappell
  92. Joan Chapman
  93. Ada Charles
  94. Pat Charnock
  95. Lorraine “Sandy” Charnoff
  96. Lilly Chibbett
  97. Bev Clark
  98. Eugenia Clark
  99. Gina Ellis Clarke (Georgina, “Dutch”)
  100. Joan Cleveland
  101. Eva Jane Clevenger
  102. Mildred Clingerman (McElroy)
  103. Audrey Clinton
  104. Jessie Clinton
  105. Helen Cloukey ff
  106. Martha Cohen
  107. Rosalind Cohen (Wylie) ff
  108. Esther “Es” Cole
  109. Eli Colter (May Eliza Frost / Harvey)
  110. Eva Conn
  111. Lillian Conway
  112. Peggy Cook
  113. Millen Cooke (Wilma Dorothy Millen Vermilyea / Belknap / Trench)
  114. Rita Coriell ff
  115. Leigh Couch
  116. Juanita Coulson (Wellons)
  117. Mary Elizabeth Counselman ff
  118. Lucille Counts
  119. Phyllisann Courtis
  120. Chantelle Covington
  121. Anne Cox (Myla Seidel)
  122. Marion Cox (Oakes)
  123. Margaret “Peggy” Crawford (Finn)
  124. Dian Crayne (Girard / Pelz)
  125. Pat Crossley
  126. Lora Crozetti
  127. Ruth Cuher ff
  128. Elizabeth Cullen
  129. Betty Cummings (Elizabeth Starr Hill) ff
  130. Monette Cummings
  131. Doris Currier
  132. Mary Marcarette Curry ff
  133. Betsy Curtis
  134. Clemence Dane (Winifred Ashton) ff
  135. Eleanor Daugherty (O’Brien)
  136. Virginia Daugherty (“Jim-E” or “Jimmy” Laney)
  137. Rose Davenport
  138. DEA (Margaret M. Dominick)
  139. Audrey Deane
  140. Dorothy de Courcy
  141. Miriam Allen deFord
  142. Marie DeJack
  143. Wilma DeMory
  144. Helen B. Dewey
  145. Shirley Dickensheet
  146. Ann Dietz (Ashe)
  147. Belle Dietz (Cohen)
  148. Ann Dinkleman
  149. Isabelle Dinwiddie
  150. Fay Dishington
  151. Sonya Dorman
  152. Ree Dragonette (Rita Marie Dragonetti)
  153. Sally Dunn (Brues / Kidd)
  154. Lorraine Dunkelberger
  155. Sheila Dvorak
  156. Mary Dziechowski
  157. Marion Eadie (Marion Turner / Fiona Turner)
  158. Rose Ebert
  159. Phyllis Economou
  160. Phyllis Eisenstein (Kleinstein)
  161. Jane Ellern (Gallion / Jacobs)
  162. Marjii Ellers
  163. Pat Ellington
  164. Sophie Wenzel Ellis ff
  165. Corinne Ellsworth
  166. Elaine Ellsworth
  167. Morjeanne Elman
  168. Carol Emshwiller
  169. Christine Entrekin
  170. Jill Esternik
  171. Frances Evans (Varley)
  172. Thelma Evans (T. D. Hamm / Morgan)
  173. Pat Everest
  174. Audrey Eversfield
  175. Edythe Eyde (“Tigrina”)
  176. Hazel R. Fahringer
  177. Djinn Faine (Virginia Russell / Dickson )
  178. Rory Faulkner (Dorothea / “Dotty”)
  179. Alicia Feather ff
  180. Nancy Featherstone ff
  181. Harriet Fellas
  182. Marianne Ferguson ff
  183. Helen Finn
  184. Dorothy Finn (Hasse)
  185. Eva Firestone ff (Upton)
  186. Sue Francis
  187. Ruth Frayne
  188. Polly Freas
  189. Wendy Freeman
  190. Ingrid Fritzsch
  191. Elizabeth Foyster
  192. Edith Furcsik
  193. Helene Gardiner
  194. Frances Garfield (Wellman)
  195. Sonia Garner
  196. Beverly Garrett
  197. Jane Gaskell
  198. Nan Gerding
  199. Robbie Gibson (Roberta Collins)
  200. Sheila Gilbert (Elkin)
  201. Bea Gittery
  202. Helen Glaser
  203. Bea Glass
  204. Mary Gnaedinger ff
  205. Evelyn Paige Gold (Stein / Eve Paige Spencer)
  206. Cele Goldsmith (Lalli)
  207. Evelyn Goldstein
  208. Cynthia Goldstone
  209. Joy Goodwin (Clarke / Sanderson)
  210. Phyllis Gotlieb
  211. Jessica "Toni" Gould (Wilson)
  212. Diane Goulding (Ellingsworth)
  213. Mary Graham
  214. Penny Grant
  215. Roberta Gray (“Bobbie” or “Bobby” Wild)
  216. Jessamine Greer
  217. Jean Grennell
  218. Pauline Grimm
  219. Joyce Grissom
  220. Reta Grossman
  221. Arniece Gurley
  222. Rosalyn Gutstein
  223. Eunice Guyy
  224. Ann Hafler
  225. Gay Haldeman
  226. Vol Haldeman (Candace Ettlin)
  227. Sandra “Sandy” Hall
  228. Tikwis Hall
  229. Frances Hamling
  230. Joan Hammet
  231. Verna “Vee” Hampton
  232. Eclare Hannifen (Hilda Hoffman)
  233. Dorothy Hansen
  234. F. E. Hardart (Flossie Elizabeth Sheehan)
  235. Barbara Harmon (Gratz)
  236. Agnes Harook
  237. Clare Winger Harris ff
  238. Evelyn Harrison
  239. Dorothy Hartwell
  240. Laura Shay Hastings
  241. Harriet Hausman
  242. Margery Hawthorne
  243. Christine Haycock (Moskowitz)
  244. Cindy Heap (Cramer / Van Arnam / Williams)
  245. Helen S. Heap
  246. G. N. Hedinger
  247. Nella Hellinger
  248. Norma Hemming
  249. Gertrude “Trudy” Hemken (Caroline Ferber)
  250. Zenna Henderson
  251. Charlotte Hensley
  252. Freddie Hershey (Curtis)
  253. Mary Hershey (Gibson)
  254. Rosemary Hickey (Becker)
  255. Carolyn Hickman
  256. Carolyn Jo Higgs
  257. Alma Hill
  258. Hyacinthe Hill (Virginia Rose Cronin/Anderson)
  259. Dora Holland
  260. Joan Hunter Holly
  261. Caroline Prescott Hoar ff
  262. Lee Hoffman
  263. Doreen House
  264. Addie Huddleston
  265. Katya Hulan (Katherine Jean Wheat / Kathy Atkins / Stevens)
  266. E. Mayne Hull (van Vogt)
  267. Carole Ingersoll
  268. Margaret Irwin
  269. Sherry Jackson
  270. Sylvia Jacobs
  271. Lilian “Lily” Jaggers
  272. Mary Jameson ff
  273. Vida Jameson ff
  274. Elsie “Else” Janda
  275. Julie Ann Jardine
  276. Val Jeeves (Valerie Williams)
  277. Barbi Johnson
  278. Bertha Johnson
  279. Helen Johnson
  280. Marijane “Janey” Johnson
  281. Flora Jones
  282. Margaret Jones
  283. Marsha Jones (Elkin / Brown)
  284. Bertha Jordan
  285. Deborah Josephson
  286. Janet Kagan
  287. Marcia Kamien
  288. Sheila Mae Kamper
  289. Helen Weinbaum Kasson
  290. Joyce Katz (Worley / Fisher)
  291. Betty Keat ff
  292. Margaret Ford Keifer
  293. Bernice Keller ff
  294. Celia Keller
  295. Dorothea Keller
  296. Nancy Kemp
  297. Anne Keylock
  298. Rita Khrone
  299. Virginia Kidd (Emden / Blish)
  300. Betty Knight
  301. Gail Knuth (Joey Knuth / Gail Daniels / Thompson / Whiskin)
  302. Mary Kolb
  303. Harriett Kolchak
  304. Mary Kornbluth (Byers)
  305. Irene Korshak (Odenheimer)
  306. Anna Krenzel ff
  307. Eva "Wildcat" Kreuger
  308. Frances Krueger
  309. Bridges Kuhn
  310. Betty Kujawa
  311. Karen Kurz (Cooper-Johnston)
  312. Gertrude “Trudy” Kuslan (“tKuslan”) ff
  313. Ziva Kwitney (Sheckley)
  314. Ruth Kyle (Landis)
  315. Janie Lamb
  316. Marion Lansdale (Linwood)
  317. Deedee Lavender
  318. Lois Lavender
  319. Denise Laws
  320. Betty Leedham
  321. Alberta Leek
  322. Kathleen Leerburger
  323. Ursula K. Le Guin
  324. Jonquil "Johnny" Leiber (Stephens) ff
  325. Louise Leipiar (L. Major Reynolds)
  326. Madeleine L'Engle
  327. Dorothy Les Tina
  328. Suford Lewis (Susan Hereford)
  329. Barb Lex
  330. Olga Ley
  331. Frances "Fran" Light
  332. Annie Linard
  333. Pauline Lincoff
  334. Ethel Lindsay
  335. Fran Lipton
  336. Amelia Reynolds Long ff
  337. Lilith Lorraine ff
  338. Audrey Lovett
  339. Pat Lupoff
  340. Lesleigh Luttrell (Couch)
  341. Pam MacInnes
  342. Constance "Connie" MacKenzie
  343. Katherine MacLean (Kate Dye / Mason / West)
  344. Florence Magarian
  345. Bea Mahaffey
  346. Pat Mahaffey (Lake)
  347. Mary Mair
  348. Marion Mallinger
  349. Faye Manning
  350. Mercedes Mansfield
  351. Carmela Marceau
  352. Katherine Marcusson
  353. Cylvia K. Margulies (Kleinman)
  354. Shirley Marriott
  355. Mary Martin
  356. Adrienne Martine
  357. Winifred Marx
  358. Barbara May
  359. Julian May (Judy Dikty)
  360. Anne McCaffrey
  361. Orma McCormick
  362. Joyce “Lin” McDaniel (Potter / Johnstone / Jumper)
  363. Winnifred McGill
  364. Dorothy McIlwraith
  365. Shirley McKeown
  366. Renee McKie
  367. Carol McKinney
  368. Ann McKnight (Newell)
  369. Buddie McKnight (Lillian Heim Jacoby / Evans)
  370. Helene Mears
  371. Jean Mehegan
  372. Beryl Mercer (Henley)
  373. Judith Merril
  374. Lois Miles
  375. Terry Mill
  376. Virginia Mill
  377. Lynette Mills
  378. Pat Milnes (Doolan)
  379. Lesley Minard
  380. Zeda Mishler
  381. Anna Sinclare Moffatt (“Stfanna”)
  382. June Moffatt (Poulson / Konigsberg)
  383. Dora Hepner Moiteret
  384. Gisela Molander
  385. Laura Molesworth
  386. June Casey Monroe
  387. Frances Trego Montgomery
  388. Belle S. Mooney
  389. C. L. Moore (Catherine Lucille Kuttner)
  390. Nancy Moore (Shapiro)
  391. Ronnie Morgan (Takacs)
  392. Morojo (Myrtle R. Douglas) ff
  393. Daphne Muggoch
  394. Mary Munro
  395. Jeanette Nagle
  396. Monica Naughton
  397. Ann B. Nelson
  398. Lil Neville
  399. Ruth Newbury
  400. Marjorie Hope Nicolson
  401. Marilyn “Fuzzy Pink” Niven
  402. Jo Noble
  403. Andre Norton (Alice Mary Norton) ff
  404. Marge Nuttall
  405. Marijane Nuttall (M J Nuttall)
  406. Betty Nystrom
  407. Edith Ogutsch
  408. Judy Oppenheim
  409. Enid Jacobs Osten
  410. Patty Paccassi
  411. Pennie Palmer
  412. Cory Panshin (Seidman)
  413. Ella Parker (Canada)
  414. Ella Parker (U.K.)
  415. Ellen Parkes
  416. Celia Parks
  417. Ann Patrizio (Temple)
  418. Pat Patterson (Lyons)
  419. Amelia Pemberton
  420. Jan Penney (Sadler / Kauffman / Samuels)
  421. Jo Perew
  422. Leslie Perri ff
  423. Helen Perry
  424. Luise Perrin (Petty)
  425. Betty Peters
  426. Elaine Phillips
  427. Charlotte Picard
  428. Margaret Picken
  429. Marjorie Pickles
  430. Mavis Pickles
  431. Brenda Piper
  432. Audrey Plimpton
  433. Pogo (Mary Corinne “Patti” Gray / Russell / Wood) ff
  434. Carol Pohl (Metcalf / Ulf / Stanton)
  435. Nancy Pooley
  436. Elizabeth Pope
  437. Irene Potter (Gore)
  438. Lou Ann Price
  439. Valerie Purnell
  440. Dorothy Quick ff
  441. Dorothy Quinn
  442. Mary Quinn
  443. Jane Quirk
  444. Evonne Rae
  445. Joni Rapkin (Markwood)
  446. Nancy Rapp (“Kabu” / Nan Share)
  447. Dorothy Ratigan (Jacobs)
  448. Vanessa Redgrave
  449. Kit Reed
  450. Mary Reed (Legg / Long)
  451. Eugenie Reid
  452. Diane Reinsberg
  453. Jeannette Reol ff
  454. Carol Resnick
  455. Mona Lee Rhines
  456. Trina Robbins (Perlson / Castillo / Petit)
  457. Lottie Robins
  458. Chris Robinson
  459. Joan Rock
  460. Elenore Rockey
  461. Doreen Parker Rogers
  462. Mary Evelyn Rogers ff
  463. Sidonie “Sid” Rogers
  464. Felice Rolfe (Maxam)
  465. Su Rosen
  466. Betty Rosenblum
  467. Marilyn Ross
  468. Dori Rothman
  469. Agnes Rundle
  470. Joanna Russ
  471. Florence Russell
  472. Marion Ryan
  473. Virginia "Ginny" Saari
  474. Margaret St. Clair ff
  475. Alice Sander
  476. Dorothy Sanford
  477. Peggy Rae Sapienza (McKnight / Pavlat)
  478. Josephine Saxton
  479. Helena Schaumburger
  480. Barbara Schmidt
  481. Virginia Schultheis
  482. Gretchen Schwenn (Boggs)
  483. Phyllis Scott
  484. Harriet Segman
  485. Daphne Sewall
  486. Lila Shaffer
  487. Sandy Shapiro
  488. Marie-Louise Share (Shoemaker)
  489. Juanita Sharp
  490. Noreen Shaw (Falasca)
  491. Sadie Shaw (Sarah)
  492. Monna Sheller
  493. Nancy Sherry
  494. Wilmar H. Shiras
  495. Ina Shorrock
  496. Maril Shrewsbury
  497. Nancy Shriner
  498. Thelma Shull
  499. Bella Siegel (Lifshitz)
  500. Barbara Silverberg (Brown)
  501. Rosemary G. Simmons
  502. Pat Sims (Oswalt)
  503. Lee Sirat
  504. Rosalie Sisson
  505. Margaret Skiffington ff
  506. Joan Skirvin
  507. Joyce Slater
  508. Ricky Slavin (Rhoda Katerinsky)
  509. Riva “The Bat” Smiley
  510. Clarrissa Smith (Honey Wilcox) ff
  511. Cindy Smith
  512. Evelyn E. Smith
  513. Jeannie Smith (Jeanne Craig MacDougall) ff
  514. Mary Southworth (Young)
  515. Ruth Stage
  516. Sue Stanley
  517. Rose Stark
  518. Barbara Steedman
  519. Genevieve K. Stephens
  520. Inga Stephens (Pratt / Clark)
  521. Anne Steul
  522. Francis Stevens (Gertrude Mabel Barrows Bennett)
  523. Lyn Stier
  524. Julia Stone
  525. Leslie F. Stone ff
  526. Joni Stopa (“Kitty” Doyle / Cornell)
  527. Mae Strelkov
  528. Evelyn Stroud
  529. Betty Sullivan
  530. Kathleen Swearingen
  531. Frances Swisher ff
  532. Frances Alberti Sykora (Quarterman) ff
  533. Frances Helen Sykora (Racic) ff
  534. Chrystal Tackett (Allen)
  535. Frances Tanner
  536. Millie Taurasi ff
  537. Beatrice Taylor
  538. Joan Teagle
  539. Joan Temple
  540. Diane Tenglin
  541. Diane Terwilleger
  542. Zylpha Thailing
  543. Jeanette Marie Thomas
  544. Maggie Thompson (Margaret Curtis)
  545. Dorothy Tomkins
  546. Suzanne Tompkins (“Suzle”)
  547. Lee Anne Tremper (Lavell)
  548. Jan Trenholm
  549. Verna Smith Trestrail ff
  550. Bjo Trimble (Betty JoAnne Conway / McCarthy / Wells)
  551. Irene Tubb
  552. Marilyn Tulley
  553. Hellen Tullis (Nagy)
  554. Leslie Turek
  555. Eleanor “Ellie” Turner
  556. Mary Ellen Tyrrell
  557. Marie Uney
  558. Beatrice Unger (Gilsenberg) ff
  559. Helen M. Urban
  560. Sophia van Doorn
  561. Fran Varley
  562. Helen Vasquez
  563. Bea Venable
  564. Marilyn "Lyn" Venable
  565. Catherine Verrastro
  566. Suzanne “Suzy” Vick
  567. Jessie Walker
  568. Simone Walsh (Restall)
  569. Mary Helen Washington
  570. Ardis Waters
  571. Beryl Watkins
  572. Doreen Webbert
  573. Jane Wells (Janie Ely)
  574. Margaret Wells (Hughes)
  575. Elma Wentz (Miller / LeCron)
  576. Helen Wesson (Vivarttas)
  577. Mari Beth Wheeler
  578. Betty White
  579. Peggy White
  580. Phyllis White (Price)
  581. Robin Postal White
  582. Sylvia Dees White
  583. Thelma "Pat" White
  584. Evelyn Adams Whyte
  585. Kate Wilhelm
  586. Allison Williams (Phillips)
  587. Cecile Williamson
  588. Madeleine Willis
  589. Genie Willmorth
  590. Gabrielle Wilson (Cummings)
  591. Liz Wilson
  592. Mary Wilson
  593. Helen Winick
  594. Mari Wolf (Graham)
  595. Eva Wolff
  596. Elsie Wollheim
  597. Honey Wood (Graham)
  598. JoAnn Wood (Schmidt)
  599. Natalie H. Wooley
  600. Barbara Wrede
  601. Marjorie Z. Wright ff
  602. Belle Wyman ff
  603. Geneva Wyman
  604. Rose Wyn
  605. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
  606. Donna Young
  607. Jean Young
  608. Mabel Young (Mae Sims)

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