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Revision as of 03:36, 19 April 2024

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

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ff = First Fandom, active by 1939.

See also: Femmefen.



Fanhistory 1920s1966
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