Donahoe's Magazine was a United-States-based Catholic-oriented general interest magazine that ran from about 1878 to July 1908, when it was absorbed by the "Catholic World" of New York.
 It had been founded by Patrick Donahoe, one-time editor of the "New York Pilot".
 It has recently attracted attention as containing possibly the first literary mention of Mary MacLane, the American feminist memoirist, in the January 1896 number.
Karen Michelle Barad (born 29 April 1956), is an American feminist theorist, known particularly for her theory of agential realism.
 She is currently Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
 She is the author of "Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning".
 Her research topics include feminist theory, physics, twentieth-century continental philosophy, epistemology, ontology, philosophy of physics, cultural studies of science, and feminist science studies.
Judy Chicago (born Judith Sylvia Cohen, July 20, 1939) is an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces, which examine the role of women in history and culture.
 By the 1970s, Chicago had coined the term "feminist art" and had founded the first feminist art program in the United States.
 Chicago's work incorporates stereotypical women's artistic skills, such as needlework, counterbalanced with stereotypical male skills such as welding and pyrotechnics.
 Chicago's most well known work is "The Dinner Party", which is permanently installed in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum.
 "The Dinner Party" celebrates the accomplishments of women throughout history and is widely regarded as the first epic feminist artwork.
 Other notable art projects by Chicago include "International Honor Quilt", "The Birth Project", "Powerplay", and "The Holocaust Project".
Mary Thom (June 3, 1944 – April 26, 2013) was an American feminist, writer, and editor.
 She was one of the founding editors of "Ms." magazine, and was an editor for the magazine for 20 years.
 In 1992, Thom left Ms. as the executive editor of the magazine.
 She wrote a book about the history of the magazine, "Inside Ms. 25 Years of the Magazine and the Feminist Movement."
 in 1997.
 At the time of her death, she was an editor-in-chief of the Women's Media Center, a think-tank group.
 Gloria Steinem called her "one of the women's movement's best editors."
Graciela Amaya de García (11 January 1895-11 October 1995) was a Central American feminist and labor organizer.
 Born in El Salvador and trained as a teacher, she moved to Honduras at the age of twenty.
 Joining the socialist movement, she became a party operative, founding trade unions to resist the labor practices of the industrialists operating in the country.
 She formed the first feminist organization of Honduras, the Society of Feminist Culture, in 1923 and organized night schools for working women to teach them about their rights.
 Expelled from Honduras for leading demonstrations against the government in 1944, she fled home to El Salvador but remained only a few months because a coup d'etat brought in a dictatorship.
 Relocating to Guatemala, García continued with her activities organizing labor and educating working class people, until she was expelled by the president in 1946.
 Moving to Mexico, she worked for the Secretariate of Education and wrote articles in support of leftist politics and women.
Hubert Reginald Holdaway (18 January 1896 – 25 April 1963) was a New Zealand teacher, orchardist, Methodist lay preacher, pacifist and communitarian.
 He was born in Lower Moutere, Nelson, New Zealand on 18 January 1896.
Mary MacLane (May 1, 1881 – "c".
 August 6, 1929) was a controversial Canadian-born American writer whose frank memoirs helped usher in the confessional style of autobiographical writing.
 MacLane was known as the "Wild Woman of Butte".
Gloria Marie Steinem (born March 25, 1934) is an American feminist, journalist, and social political activist, who became nationally recognized as a leader and a spokeswoman for the American feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
 She is listed in Who's Who in America.
The Heathen Woman's Friend (1869-1896; renamed Woman’s Missionary Friend, 1896-1940) was a Christian women's monthly newspaper.
 Established in May 1869, it was published by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Boston, Massachusetts.
 The monthly magazine describe conditions in the mission fields of the church, document the work of the society, and provide assistance to missionaries.
 "The Heathen Woman's Friend" was launched with volume 1, number 1 in May 1869.
 Its final issue, volume 27, number 6, was issued December 1895.
 The publication was relaunched as the "Woman's Missionary Friend" with volume 27, number 7 on January 1896, and ended with volume 73, number 7 in August 1940.
Walter D'Arcy Cresswell (22 January 1896 – 21 February 1960) was a New Zealand poet, journalist and writer.
 He was born in Christchurch, New Zealand on 22 January 1896.
 Cresswell was the son of Hannah (née Reese) and Walter Joseph Cresswell, a solicitor.
 His elder brother was Douglas Cresswell later known as a writer.
 On leaving school (Christ's College, 1910–1912) Walter joined the Christchurch architectural firm of Collins and Harman.
 In mid 1914 Cresswell went to London to further studies at the Architectural Association, and in early 1915 enlisted as a private with the Middlesex Regiment.
 He was wounded in France in 1916, and after convalescence joined the Corps of New Zealand Engineers, serving from 1917 until the demobilisation of 1919.
 He was entitled to the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.

Question: The American feminist memoirist mentioned in the January 1896 number of Donahoe's Magazine was born on what date?
Answer: May 1, 1881