Women Composers & Lyricists
This list is drawn from all of the Duke sheet music
collections, not merely the Historic American Sheet Music project. It
was not systematically made, but was created as the names were
encountered during indexing. There has been little or no attempt to
standardize the names.
- Anderson, Mrs. E. H.
- Armstrong, Minnie (words)
- Aufderheide, May
- Avary, Myrta Lockett (words)
- Badarzewska, Thekla, 1834-1861
- Bardsley, Eunice W.
- Bayes, Nora, 1880-1928
- Black, Dorothea (words)
- Blackwood, Mrs. Price see
- Dufferin and Clandeboye, Helen Selina
Blackwood, Baroness, 1807-1867
- Blackwood, Baroness, 1807-1867) see
- Dufferin and Clandeboye, Helen Selina Blackwood, Baroness, 1807-1867
- Bostwick, Helen L. (lyrics)
- Brahe, May H. (May Hannah), 1885-1956 (composer)
- Bridges, Ethel
- Bright, C. E., Miss (composer of Gen. Burnside's quick step)
- Brownell, Leila M.
- Butler, Mattie (words)
- Jones, Amanda T.
- Caldwell, Anna
- Caldwell, Anne
- Chambers, Augusta Howe
- Champagne, Mildred
- Chickering, C. F, Mrs.
- Claribel, 1830-1869 (Barnard, Charlotte Alington, 1830-1869)
- Cook, Agnes Spofford (words)
- Cook, Eliza, 1818-1889 (words)
- Cooke, Marjorie Benton, 1876-1920
- Crawford, Mrs. (Crawford, Louisa Macartney)
- Crosby, Fanny, 1820-1915
- Currier, Mrs. S. (words)
- Daly, Julia
- Dana, Mrs.
- Darrell, Mabel
- De Lachau, Ada (wrote Li'l Liza Jane)
- DeMert, Lucille
- Del Riego, Teresa (music)
- Dobyne, Irene C. (poet)
- Dowling, Lillia (music)
- Downing, Fanny Murdaugh, 1835-1894 (poet)
- Dufferin and Clandeboye, Helen Selina Blackwood, Baroness, 1807-1867
- Earl, Mary, 1862-1932
- Ebbert, Blanche Gould
- Elkin, R. H. (Rosie or Rose Helen Elkin)
- Ella, of Woodlawn (Confederate imprint)
- Emerson, Ida
- Euterpean Quartette
- (all women quartet, including:
Harriet Levinger, Fannie Levinger, Jeannette Bauhof,
Katherine Baehrens)
- Fanshaw, Mrs. L. (author of words to Southern Marseillaise)
- Field, Virginia
- Fisher, Miriam Lois
- Foster, Fay, 1886-1960
- Gabriel, Virginia, 1825-1877
- Gifford, G.R., Hon. Mrs. (t.p.: Hon. Mrs. Gifford)
- Gottheil, Miss. Louisiana
- Greene, May
- Gray, Vivian see
- McKinley, Mabel
- Grey, Vivian see
- McKinley, Mabel
- Griffith, Mary A.
- Grossmann, Gertrude E. (music)
- Hackelton, Mrs. M. W.
- Hearn, Anna K. (text)
- Henshaw, Alice Francelia (music)
- Heron, Fanny
- Higginson, Elia (text)
- Hill, May (composer)
- Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
- Hodges, Faustina Hasse, 1823-1895 (music)
- Organist & composer in Brooklyn, New York, and Philadelphia
- Hopkins, Mary M.
- Howe, S. J., Mrs.
- Ingelow, Jean, 1820-1897
- Irwin, May, 1862-1938
- (primarily known as a performer, she also wrote the music
and words to songs)
- Jacobs-Bond, Carrie
- Jardon, Dolly
- Jewitt, Jessie Mae
- Jones, Amanda T.
- Kamman, Effie F.
- Kennedy, Amanda (music)
- Kingsley, Edith
- Kinkel, Florence
- Knapp, Phoebe Palmer, 1839-1908
- Kummer, Clare Beecher, 1886-1958
- Kummer, Lourine
- Lamb, Marie Elizabeth
- Landon, Agnes (translator)
- Lane, Alice (Confederate imprint - Augusta, Ga.)
- Lauve, Miss C. (Confederate imprint - New Orleans)
- Lehmann, Liza
- Lemon, Laura G.
- Lenox, Jean (words)
- Lewis, Theresa (Mrs. Juan Lewis)
- Lindsay, M., Miss
- Brown, J. D. Brit. musical bio., 1897 (Bliss, Mrs. J.
Worthington; born M. Lindsay; composer)
- Littlefield, Addie (words)
- Lloyd, Lula
- Loud, Emily L. (music)
- Louka, Marie (music)
- Lummis, Hattie (words)
- May, Lilian
- McCree, Junie (words)
- McKinley, Mabel (Vivian Grey or Gray)
- McKnight, Annie Ford (Thomasville, Ga.), composer
- Mills, Joy
- Mori, Emile E.
- Morrison, Mary
- Morton, Agnes H.
- Moulton, Maud Evelyn
- Murphy, Jeannette Robinson
- Nilson, O. M., Mrs.
- Norton, Caroline Sheridan, 1808-1877
- often listed as The Hon. Mrs. Norton on title pages
- Nugent, Maude
- Oakwood, Lottie
- Osgood, Frances Sargent Locke, 1811-1850 (poet)
- Owen, Anita
- Park, Edna Rosalind
- Parkhurst, E. A., Mrs.
- Percy, Florence (i.e., Allen, Elizabeth Akers, 1832-1911) (words)
- Pittman, H. D. (Hannah Daviess), 1840-1919
- Poole, Anna W.
- Posey, Sara E.
- Rogers, Cornelia D. (words)
- Root, Arabella (words)
- Rudisill, Bess
- Ryan, Mrs. Leo
- Scott, Clara H., 1841-1897
- Scott, Miss M. B. (confederate imprint)
- Scott, Sue Ingersoll
- Siedler, Alice
- Slade, Mary B. C. (words)
- Smith, Julia, 19th cent. (words & music)
- Starr, Hattie
- Steiner, Emma R. (arranger)
- Stevens, Eula Hood
- Story, Pauline B.
- Stratton, Mrs. M. W. (words)
- Taylor, Helen, d. 1943 (words)
- Templeton, Fay (music)
- Van Boskerck, Hattie (composer)
- Wade, Emma
- Walsh, Mary E. (composer of Black Hawk waltzes)
- Warden, Emily (words)
- Wardwell, Allie E. (words)
- Warner, Mrs. A. G. (Confederate imrpint)
- Watson, Grace L. (comp.)
- Wayne, Mabel (composer)
- Weil, Cynthia
- Welles, Georgia B. (music)
- Werner, Kay
- Werner, Sue
- Whitney, Hattie (words)
- Whitney, Margaret (words & music, Salt Lake City)
- Whitson, Beth Slater, 1879-1930
- Wilkens, Verna
- Willard, Mrs., of Troy, N.Y.
- Williams, J. R. (affectionately inscribed to her brother, Ramon
O. Williams)
- Wragg, Mary Roper (music)
- Wilson, Louisiana
- Winans, John C., Mrs. (words)
- Woodforde-Finden, Amy, 1860-1919 (music)
- Wren, Ella (Miss)
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