Amazing Women

Helen Allingham RWS

1848 - 1926
Painter

Madge Atkinson

1885 - 1970
Dancing Teacher

Alice Bacon

1909 - 1993
Politician

Annie Beridge Leigh-Mallory

1863 - 1945
Vicar’s Daughter and Wife

Mary Jane (Jenny) Brogden

Victorian High Court Litigant

Ann Brontë

1820 - 1849
Novelist & Poet

Charlotte Brontë

1816 - 1855
Novelist & Poet

Emily Brontë

1818 - 1848
Novelist & Poet

Frances Hodgson Burnett

1849 - 1924
Children's Author & Novelist

Barbara Castle

1910 - 2002
Politician

Mary Cholmondeley

1563 - 1625
Property Owner

Odette Churchill GC

1912 - 1995
Allied Intelligence Officer

Leonora Cohen

1873 - 1978
Women's Rights Activist & Arts Patron.

Juliana Ewing

1841 - 1885
Children's Author

Kathleen Ferrier

1912 - 1953
Singer

Gracie Fields

1898 - 1979
Singer, Actress & Comedian

Mary Fildes

1789 - 1876
Political Activist

Jessie Fothergill

1851 - 1891
Novelist

Ethel Frater

1904 - 2007
Doctor

Elizabeth Gaskell

1810 - 1865
Novelist

Francis Griffiths

1907 - 1986
Photographer

Lady Betty Hastings

1682 - 1739
Benefactor

Ellen Heaton

1816 - 1894
Women's Rights Activist & Educational Benefactor

Elizabeth Salisbury Heywood

1811 -1887

Wendy Hiller DBE

1912 - 2003
Film & Stage Actress

Ethel Carnie Holdsworth

1886 - 1962
Writer, Feminist & Journalist

Maria Hollingsworth

Born 1765

Mary Janion

1762 - 1841
Lay Minister

Annie Kenney

1879 - 1953
Suffragette

Anne Lister

1791 - 1840
Diarist & Traveller

Sunny Lowry

1911 - 2008
Channel Swimmer

Olive Morris

1952 - 1979
Activist and Community Leader

Emmeline Pankhurst

1858 - 1928
Political activist & leader of the British Suffragette Movement

Blanche Partington

1866 - 1951
Journalist

Sylvia Plath

1932 - 1963
Novelist and Poet

Eliza Potts

1809 - 1873
Botanist

Edith Pretty

1883 - 1942
Landowner, Benefactor & Magistrate

Mary Quaile

1886 - 1958
Trade Unionist

Elizabeth Raffald

1733 - 1781
Food Author & Entrepreneur

Lady Mary Rochester OBE

1921 - 2000
Researcher & Curator

Selina Davenport

1779 - 1859
Novelist

Enid Stacey

1868 - 1903
Campaigner

Penelope Countess of Stamford

1865 - 1959
Commandant of Stamford Hospital & Red Cross Volunteer

Peggy Sumner

1920 - 2015
Family History Pioneer

Violette Szabo GC

1921 - 1945
Special Operations Executive Agent

Beatrice Tinsley

1941 - 1981
Cosmologist

Ann Todd

1909 - 1993
Actress

Lady Jane Turnbull

1899 - 1991
Nurse

Alison Uttley

1884 - 1976
Writer

Florence White

1886 - 1961
Campaigner

Ellen Wilkinson

1891 - 1947
Politician and Journalist

June Williams

1926 - 2015
Zookeeper

Laura Ann Willson MBE

1877 - 1942
Engineer, Housebuilder & Women's Rights Campaigner

Elsie Wright

1901 - 1988
Photographer