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Revision as of 02:50, 15 May 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. Barbara Brewster
  59. Kay Brickman
  60. Rohelen Brickman
  61. Marjorie Broadbent
  62. Marlene Broderick
  63. Beverly Bronson
  64. Jacqueline G. Brooks
  65. Rosel G. Brown
  66. Beverly Browne
  67. Margaret Brundage
  68. Marjorie Brunner
  69. Doris Pitkin Buck
  70. Daphne Buckmaster (Bradley)
  71. Edna Budrys (Duna)
  72. Pamela Bulmer (Buckmaster)
  73. Thelma Bunch
  74. Isabel Burbee
  75. Joyce Burke
  76. Kay Burwell
  77. Elinor Busby
  78. Freda Busfield
  79. Linda Bushyager (Eyster)
  80. JoAnne Calkins
  81. Doña Campbell (Stewart / Smith)
  82. Peg Campbell (Winter)
  83. Cynthia Carey
  84. Irene Carnell
  85. Carol Carr
  86. Edith Carr
  87. Gertrude M. Carr
  88. Miriam Carr (Miri Dyches / Knight / Lloyd)
  89. Jean Carrol (Jane McClain / Engel)
  90. Phyllis Carter
  91. Ann Chamberlain
  92. Penny Chandler (Bale)
  93. Evelyn Dolores Chappell
  94. Joan Chapman
  95. Ada Charles
  96. Pat Charnock
  97. Lorraine “Sandy” Charnoff
  98. Meredith Chatterton
  99. Lily Chibbett
  100. Bev Clark
  101. Eugenia Clark
  102. Gina Ellis Clarke (Georgina, “Dutch”)
  103. Joan Cleveland
  104. Eva Jane Clevenger
  105. Mildred Clingerman (McElroy)
  106. Audrey Clinton
  107. Jessie Clinton
  108. Helen Cloukey ff
  109. Martha Cohen
  110. Rosalind Cohen (Wylie) ff
  111. Esther “Es” Cole
  112. Eli Colter (May Eliza Frost / Harvey)
  113. Eva Conn
  114. Lillian Conway
  115. Peggy Cook
  116. Millen Cooke (Wilma Dorothy Millen Vermilyea / Belknap / Trench)
  117. Rita Coriell ff
  118. Leigh Couch
  119. Juanita Coulson (Wellons)
  120. Mary Elizabeth Counselman ff
  121. Lucille Counts
  122. Phyllisann Courtis
  123. Chantelle Covington
  124. Anne Cox (Myla Seidel)
  125. Marion Cox (Oakes)
  126. Margaret “Peggy” Crawford (Finn)
  127. Dian Crayne (Girard / Pelz)
  128. Pat Crossley
  129. Lora Crozetti
  130. Ruth Cuher ff
  131. Elizabeth Cullen
  132. Betty Cummings (Elizabeth Starr Hill) ff
  133. Monette Cummings
  134. Doris Currier
  135. Mary Marcarette Curry ff
  136. Betsy Curtis
  137. Clemence Dane (Winifred Ashton) ff
  138. Eleanor Daugherty (O’Brien)
  139. Virginia Daugherty (“Jim-E” or “Jimmy” Laney)
  140. Rose Davenport
  141. DEA (Margaret M. Dominick)
  142. Audrey Deane
  143. Dorothy de Courcy
  144. Miriam Allen deFord
  145. Marie DeJack
  146. Wilma DeMory
  147. Helen B. Dewey
  148. Shirley Dickensheet
  149. Ann Dietz (Ashe)
  150. Belle Dietz (Cohen)
  151. Ann Dinkleman
  152. Isabelle Dinwiddie
  153. Fay Dishington
  154. Sonya Dorman
  155. Ree Dragonette (Rita Marie Dragonetti)
  156. Sally Dunn (Brues / Kidd)
  157. Lorraine Dunkelberger
  158. Sheila Dvorak
  159. Mary Dziechowski
  160. Marion Eadie (Marion Turner / Fiona Turner)
  161. Rose Ebert
  162. Phyllis Economou
  163. Phyllis Eisenstein (Kleinstein)
  164. Jane Ellern (Gallion / Jacobs)
  165. Marjii Ellers
  166. Pat Ellington
  167. Sophie Wenzel Ellis ff
  168. Corinne Ellsworth
  169. Elaine Ellsworth
  170. Morjeanne Elman
  171. Carol Emshwiller
  172. Christine Entrekin
  173. Jill Esternik
  174. Frances Evans (Varley)
  175. Thelma Evans (T. D. Hamm / Morgan)
  176. Pat Everest
  177. Audrey Eversfield
  178. Edythe Eyde (“Tigrina”)
  179. Hazel R. Fahringer
  180. Djinn Faine (Virginia Russell / Dickson )
  181. Joyce Fairbairn (Youd)
  182. Rory Faulkner (Dorothea / “Dotty”)
  183. Alicia Feather ff
  184. Nancy Featherstone ff
  185. Harriet Fellas
  186. Marianne Ferguson ff
  187. Helen Finn
  188. Dorothy Finn (Hasse)
  189. Eva Firestone ff (Upton)
  190. Sue Francis
  191. Ruth Frayne
  192. Polly Freas
  193. Wendy Freeman
  194. Ingrid Fritzsch
  195. Elizabeth Foyster
  196. Edith Furcsik
  197. Helene Gardiner
  198. Frances Garfield (Wellman)
  199. Sonia Garner
  200. Beverly Garrett
  201. Jane Gaskell
  202. Nan Gerding
  203. Robbie Gibson (Roberta Collins)
  204. Sheila Gilbert (Elkin)
  205. Bea Gittery
  206. Helen Glaser
  207. Bea Glass
  208. Frances Glynn (Jason / Ferguson)
  209. Mary Gnaedinger ff
  210. Evelyn Paige Gold (Stein / Eve Paige Spencer)
  211. Cele Goldsmith (Lalli)
  212. Evelyn Goldstein
  213. Cynthia Goldstone
  214. Joy Goodwin (Clarke / Sanderson)
  215. Phyllis Gotlieb
  216. Jessica "Toni" Gould (Wilson)
  217. Diane Goulding (Ellingsworth)
  218. Mary Graham
  219. Penny Grant
  220. Roberta Gray (“Bobbie” or “Bobby” Wild)
  221. Jessamine Greer
  222. Jean Grennell
  223. Pauline Grimm
  224. Joyce Grissom
  225. Reta Grossman
  226. Arniece Gurley
  227. Rosalyn Gutstein
  228. Eunice Guyy
  229. Ann Hafler
  230. Gay Haldeman
  231. Vol Haldeman (Candace Ettlin)
  232. Sandy Hall (Alexandra or Sandra)
  233. Tikwis Hall
  234. Frances Hamling
  235. Joan Hammet
  236. Verna “Vee” Hampton
  237. Eclare Hannifen (Hilda Hoffman)
  238. Dorothy Hansen
  239. F. E. Hardart (Flossie Elizabeth Sheehan)
  240. Barbara Harmon (Gratz)
  241. Agnes Harook
  242. Clare Winger Harris ff
  243. Evelyn Harrison
  244. Dorothy Hartwell
  245. Laura Shay Hastings
  246. Harriet Hausman
  247. Margery Hawthorne
  248. Christine Haycock (Moskowitz)
  249. Cindy Heap (Cramer / Van Arnam / Williams)
  250. Helen S. Heap
  251. G. N. Hedinger
  252. Nella Hellinger
  253. Norma Hemming
  254. Gertrude “Trudy” Hemken (Caroline Ferber)
  255. Zenna Henderson
  256. Charlotte Hensley
  257. Freddie Hershey (Curtis)
  258. Mary Hershey (Gibson)
  259. Rosemary Hickey (Becker)
  260. Carolyn Hickman
  261. Carolyn Jo Higgs
  262. Alma Hill
  263. Hyacinthe Hill (Virginia Rose Cronin/Anderson)
  264. Dora Holland
  265. Joan Hunter Holly
  266. Caroline Prescott Hoar ff
  267. Lee Hoffman
  268. Doreen House
  269. Addie Huddleston
  270. Katya Hulan (Katherine Jean Wheat / Kathy Atkins / Stevens)
  271. E. Mayne Hull (van Vogt)
  272. Carole Ingersoll
  273. Margaret Irwin
  274. Sherry Jackson
  275. Sylvia Jacobs
  276. Lilian “Lily” Jaggers
  277. Mary Jameson ff
  278. Vida Jameson ff
  279. Elsie “Else” Janda
  280. Julie Ann Jardine
  281. Val Jeeves (Valerie Williams)
  282. Barbi Johnson
  283. Bertha Johnson
  284. Helen Johnson
  285. Marijane “Janey” Johnson
  286. Flora Jones
  287. Margaret Jones
  288. Marsha Jones (Elkin / Brown)
  289. Bertha Jordan
  290. Deborah Josephson
  291. Janet Kagan
  292. Marcia Kamien
  293. Sheila Mae Kamper
  294. Helen Weinbaum Kasson
  295. Joyce Katz (Worley / Fisher)
  296. Betty Keat ff
  297. Margaret Ford Keifer
  298. Bernice Keller ff
  299. Celia Keller
  300. Dorothea Keller
  301. Nancy Kemp
  302. Anne Keylock
  303. Rita Khrone
  304. Virginia Kidd (Emden / Blish)
  305. Betty Knight
  306. Gail Knuth (Joey Knuth / Gail Daniels / Thompson / Whiskin)
  307. Mary Kolb
  308. Harriett Kolchak
  309. Mary Kornbluth (Byers)
  310. Irene Korshak (Odenheimer)
  311. Anna Krenzel ff
  312. Eva "Wildcat" Kreuger
  313. Frances Krueger
  314. Bridges Kuhn
  315. Betty Kujawa
  316. Karen Kurz (Cooper-Johnston)
  317. Gertrude “Trudy” Kuslan (“tKuslan”) ff
  318. Ziva Kwitney (Sheckley)
  319. Ruth Kyle (Landis)
  320. Janie Lamb
  321. Marion Lansdale (Linwood)
  322. Deedee Lavender
  323. Lois Lavender
  324. Denise Laws
  325. Betty Leedham
  326. Alberta Leek
  327. Kathleen Leerburger
  328. Ursula K. Le Guin
  329. Jonquil "Johnny" Leiber (Stephens) ff
  330. Louise Leipiar (L. Major Reynolds)
  331. Madeleine L'Engle
  332. Dorothy Les Tina
  333. Suford Lewis (Susan Hereford)
  334. Barb Lex
  335. Olga Ley
  336. Frances "Fran" Light
  337. Annie Linard
  338. Pauline Lincoff
  339. Ethel Lindsay
  340. Fran Lipton
  341. Amelia Reynolds Long ff
  342. Lilith Lorraine ff
  343. Audrey Lovett
  344. Pat Lupoff
  345. Lesleigh Luttrell (Couch)
  346. Pam MacInnes
  347. Lil MacKay
  348. Renee MacKay
  349. Constance "Connie" MacKenzie
  350. Katherine MacLean (Kate Dye / Mason / West)
  351. Florence Magarian
  352. Bea Mahaffey
  353. Pat Mahaffey (Lake)
  354. Mary Mair
  355. Marion Mallinger
  356. Faye Manning
  357. Mercedes Mansfield
  358. Carmela Marceau
  359. Katherine Marcusson
  360. Cylvia K. Margulies (Kleinman)
  361. Shirley Marriott
  362. Mary Martin
  363. Adrienne Martine
  364. Winifred Marx
  365. Barbara May
  366. Julian May (Judy Dikty)
  367. Anne McCaffrey
  368. Orma McCormick
  369. Joyce “Lin” McDaniel (Potter / Johnstone / Jumper)
  370. Winnifred McGill
  371. Dorothy McIlwraith
  372. Shirley McKeown
  373. Renee McKie
  374. Carol McKinney
  375. Ann McKnight (Newell)
  376. Buddie McKnight (Lillian Heim Jacoby / Evans)
  377. Helene Mears
  378. Jean Mehegan
  379. Beryl Mercer (Henley)
  380. Judith Merril
  381. Lois Miles
  382. Terry Mill
  383. Virginia Mill
  384. Lynette Mills
  385. Pat Milnes (Doolan)
  386. Lesley Minard
  387. Zeda Mishler
  388. Anna Sinclare Moffatt (“Stfanna”)
  389. June Moffatt (Poulson / Konigsberg)
  390. Dora Hepner Moiteret
  391. Gisela Molander
  392. Laura Molesworth
  393. June Casey Monroe
  394. Frances Trego Montgomery
  395. Belle S. Mooney
  396. C. L. Moore (Catherine Lucille Kuttner)
  397. Nancy Moore (Shapiro)
  398. Ronnie Morgan (Takacs)
  399. Morojo (Myrtle R. Douglas) ff
  400. Daphne Muggoch
  401. Mary Munro
  402. Jeanette Nagle
  403. Monica Naughton
  404. Ann B. Nelson
  405. Lil Neville
  406. Ruth Newbury
  407. Marjorie Hope Nicolson
  408. Marilyn “Fuzzy Pink” Niven
  409. Jo Noble
  410. Andre Norton (Alice Mary Norton) ff
  411. Marge Nuttall
  412. Marijane Nuttall (M J Nuttall)
  413. Betty Nystrom
  414. Edith Ogutsch
  415. Judy Oppenheim
  416. Enid Jacobs Osten
  417. Patty Paccassi
  418. Pennie Palmer
  419. Cory Panshin (Seidman)
  420. Ella Parker (Canada)
  421. Ella Parker (U.K.)
  422. Ellen Parkes
  423. Celia Parks
  424. Ann Patrizio (Temple)
  425. Pat Patterson (Lyons)
  426. Amelia Pemberton
  427. Jan Penney (Sadler / Kauffman / Samuels)
  428. Jo Perew
  429. Leslie Perri ff
  430. Helen Perry
  431. Luise Perrin (Petty)
  432. Betty Peters
  433. Elaine Phillips
  434. Charlotte Picard
  435. Margaret Picken
  436. Marjorie Pickles
  437. Mavis Pickles
  438. Brenda Piper
  439. Audrey Plimpton
  440. Pogo (Mary Corinne “Patti” Gray / Russell / Wood) ff
  441. Carol Pohl (Metcalf / Ulf / Stanton)
  442. Nancy Pooley
  443. Elizabeth Pope
  444. Irene Potter (Gore)
  445. Lou Ann Price
  446. Valerie Purnell
  447. Dorothy Quick ff
  448. Dorothy Quinn
  449. Mary Quinn
  450. Jane Quirk
  451. Evonne Rae
  452. Joni Rapkin (Markwood)
  453. Nancy Rapp (“Kabu” / Nan Share)
  454. Dorothy Ratigan (Jacobs)
  455. Vanessa Redgrave
  456. Kit Reed
  457. Mary Reed (Legg / Long)
  458. Eugenie Reid
  459. Diane Reinsberg
  460. Jeannette Reol ff
  461. Carol Resnick
  462. Mona Lee Rhines
  463. Trina Robbins (Perlson / Castillo / Petit)
  464. Lottie Robins
  465. Chris Robinson
  466. Joan Rock
  467. Elenore Rockey
  468. Doreen Parker Rogers
  469. Mary Evelyn Rogers ff
  470. Sidonie “Sid” Rogers
  471. Felice Rolfe (Maxam)
  472. Su Rosen
  473. Betty Rosenblum
  474. Marilyn Ross
  475. Dori Rothman
  476. Agnes Rundle
  477. Joanna Russ
  478. Florence Russell
  479. Marion Ryan
  480. Virginia "Ginny" Saari
  481. Margaret St. Clair ff
  482. Alice Sander
  483. Dorothy Sanford
  484. Peggy Rae Sapienza (McKnight / Pavlat)
  485. Josephine Saxton
  486. Helena Schaumburger
  487. Barbara Schmidt
  488. Virginia Schultheis
  489. Gretchen Schwenn (Boggs)
  490. Phyllis Scott
  491. Harriet Segman
  492. Daphne Sewall
  493. Lila Shaffer
  494. Sandy Shapiro
  495. Marie-Louise Share (Shoemaker)
  496. Juanita Sharp
  497. Noreen Shaw (Falasca)
  498. Sadie Shaw (Sarah)
  499. Monna Sheller
  500. Nancy Sherry
  501. Wilmar H. Shiras
  502. Ina Shorrock
  503. Maril Shrewsbury
  504. Nancy Shriner
  505. Thelma Shull
  506. Bella Siegel (Lifshitz)
  507. Barbara Silverberg (Brown)
  508. Rosemary G. Simmons
  509. Pat Sims (Oswalt)
  510. Lee Sirat
  511. Rosalie Sisson
  512. Margaret Skiffington ff
  513. Joan Skirvin
  514. Joyce Slater
  515. Ricky Slavin (Rhoda Katerinsky)
  516. Riva “The Bat” Smiley
  517. Clarrissa Smith (Honey Wilcox) ff
  518. Cindy Smith
  519. Evelyn E. Smith
  520. Jeannie Smith (Jeanne Craig MacDougall) ff
  521. Mary Southworth (Young)
  522. Ruth Stage
  523. Sue Stanley
  524. Rose Stark
  525. Barbara Steedman
  526. Genevieve K. Stephens
  527. Inga Stephens (Pratt / Clark)
  528. Anne Steul
  529. Francis Stevens (Gertrude Mabel Barrows Bennett)
  530. Lyn Stier
  531. Julia Stone
  532. Leslie F. Stone ff
  533. Joni Stopa (“Kitty” Doyle / Cornell)
  534. Mae Strelkov
  535. Evelyn Stroud
  536. Betty Sullivan
  537. Kathleen Swearingen
  538. Frances Swisher ff
  539. Frances Alberti Sykora (Quarterman) ff
  540. Frances Helen Sykora (Racic) ff
  541. Chrystal Tackett (Allen)
  542. Frances Tanner
  543. Millie Taurasi ff
  544. Beatrice Taylor
  545. Joan Teagle
  546. Joan Temple
  547. Diane Tenglin
  548. Diane Terwilleger
  549. Zylpha Thailing
  550. Jeanette Marie Thomas
  551. Maggie Thompson (Margaret Curtis)
  552. Dorothy Tomkins
  553. Suzanne Tompkins (“Suzle”)
  554. Lee Anne Tremper (Lavell)
  555. Jan Trenholm
  556. Verna Smith Trestrail ff
  557. Bjo Trimble (Betty JoAnne Conway / McCarthy / Wells)
  558. Irene Tubb
  559. Marilyn Tulley
  560. Hellen Tullis (Nagy)
  561. Leslie Turek
  562. Eleanor “Ellie” Turner
  563. Mary Ellen Tyrrell
  564. Marie Uney
  565. Beatrice Unger (Gilsenberg) ff
  566. Helen M. Urban
  567. Sophia van Doorn
  568. Helen Vasquez
  569. Bea Venable
  570. Marilyn "Lyn" Venable
  571. Catherine Verrastro
  572. Suzanne “Suzy” Vick
  573. Jessie Walker
  574. Simone Walsh (Restall)
  575. Mary Helen Washington
  576. Ardis Waters
  577. Beryl Watkins
  578. Doreen Webbert
  579. Jane Wells (Janie Ely)
  580. Margaret Wells (Hughes)
  581. Elma Wentz (Miller / LeCron)
  582. Helen Wesson (Vivarttas)
  583. Mari Beth Wheeler
  584. Betty White
  585. Peggy White
  586. Phyllis White (Price)
  587. Robin Postal White
  588. Sylvia Dees White
  589. Thelma "Pat" White
  590. Evelyn Adams Whyte
  591. Kate Wilhelm
  592. Allison Williams (Phillips)
  593. Cecile Williamson
  594. Madeleine Willis
  595. Genie Willmorth
  596. Gabrielle Wilson (Cummings)
  597. Liz Wilson
  598. Mary Wilson
  599. Helen Winick
  600. Mari Wolf (Graham)
  601. Eva Wolff
  602. Elsie Wollheim
  603. Honey Wood (Graham)
  604. JoAnn Wood (Schmidt)
  605. Natalie H. Wooley
  606. Barbara Wrede
  607. Marjorie Z. Wright ff
  608. Belle Wyman ff
  609. Geneva Wyman
  610. Rose Wyn
  611. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
  612. Cathie Youden
  613. Donna Young
  614. Jean Young
  615. Mabel Young (Mae Sims)

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ff = First Fandom, active by 1939.

See also: Femmefen.



Fanhistory 1920s1966
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