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Caroline Haslett
British electrical engineer and electricity industry administrator.
Dame Caroline Harriet Haslett, DBE, JP, born in 1895 in Worth, Sussex, was an English electrical engineer, electricity industry administrator and champion of women's rights.
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Josephine Butler
1828 – 1906 One of the most revolutionary social reformers of the nineteenth century. She challenged the inconsistent and hypocritical standards of her time which unjustly disadvantaged women and she campaigned against the sexual exploitation of vulnerable women and children.
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Rosalind Franklin
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Mary Wollstonecraft
Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, the first book in English arguing for the equality of women and men.
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Barbara Castle
(2010-2002) One of the best-known politicians of the 20th Century and trailblazer for women. Fought for the Equal Pay Act, changes to industrial relations, reforms to pensions, higher pay for nurses, increased benefits for the elderly & disabled, 70pmh speed limit, anti-apartheid & decolonisation.
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Jo Cox
Labour MP who died after being shot and stabbed in 2016. She was attacked before holding a constituency surgery in Birstall, West Yorkshire. "Jo believed in a better world and she fought for it every day of her life"
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Barbara Jane Harrison GC
(1945 – 1968),
typically known as Jane Harrison, was a British air stewardess. She is one of four women to have been awarded the George Cross for heroism, and is the only woman to be awarded the medal for gallantry in peacetime.
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Baroness Angela Burdett Coutts
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Ada Lovelace
Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron 1815 –1852) was an English mathematician and writer, Her work includes what is recognised as the first algorithm and so she is often regarded as the first computer programmer.
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Victoria Wood
1953 – 2016 Comedian, actress, singer and songwriter, screenwriter and director."She gave inspiration to other women because she wasn't having to be sexy and rude, although she was all of those things. She was just brilliant."
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Sylvia Pankhurst
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
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Lynda Blue
Lynda Blue is regarded as the founder of Heart Failure Nursing in the UK and Europe. Her seminal research demonstrated that nurses specialising in heart failure care reduce mortality and improve quality of life for patients. Her work created a UK wide movement of specialist heart failure nurses.
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Barbara Harmer
1953 – 2011 was the first qualified female Concorde pilot.
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Kitty Wilkinson
Kity change the health of working class people in Liverpool from Chlorea in 1831, thus changing peoples lives forever. A small working class woman with a large idea.
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Eleanor Marx
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Mo Mowlem
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Julia Margaret Cameron
British photographer.1815 - 1879. Deemed "one of the most significant photographers of the 19th century ".She became known for her portraits of celebrities of the time, and for photographs with Arthurian and other legendary or heroic themes.
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Mary Anning 1799 - 1847 Palaeontologist
English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist, who made important finds in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs at Lyme Regis, Dorset, contributing to important changes in scientific thinking about prehistoric life and the history of the Earth.#MaryAnningRocks
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Millicent Fawcett
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Emily Wilding Davison
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Anne Knight
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Mary Seacole
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Aethelflaed - Queen of Mercia
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Caroline Lucas
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Jane Austen
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J K Rowling
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Eleanor Rathbone
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dorothy hodgkin
Dorothy Mary Hodgkin OM FRS (1910 –1994),
A British biochemist who developed protein crystallography, for which she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964
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Bronte Sisters
Anne,(1820 –1849) Emily, (1818–1848)and Charlotte Bronte (1816 – 1855)
were a nineteenth-century literary family. They originally published their poems and novels under male pseudonyms and wrote works that were controversial at the time but later accepted as masterpieces of literature.
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Mary Macarthur
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Odette Hallowes
Odette Sansom Hallowes GC, MBE ( 1912 – 1995),
aka Odette Sansom / Odette Churchill, an Allied intelligence officer during World War II. Her wartime exploits and endurance of a brutal interrogation and imprisonment made her the first woman to be awarded both the George Cross & la Légion d'Honneur
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Edith New
1877 - 1951
A militant suffragette. In an attempt to create a diversion that would allow fellow suffragette Flora Drummond to break in and disrupt a cabinet meeting , Edith and Olivia Smith chained themselves to the railings outside 10 Downing Street shouting "votes for women!"
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Baroness Jane Campbell of Surbiton
Jane Susan Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton, DBE (1959)
Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)2006–08. She also served as Chair of the Disability Committee which lead on the EHRC Disability Programme & the former Chair of the Social Care Institute for Excellence.
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Dorothy Buchanan
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Florence Nightingale
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Marie Stopes
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1880 – 1958)
She founded the first birth control clinic in Britain. Her sex manual Married Love (1918) was controversial and influential, and brought the subject of birth control into wide public discourse.
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Mary Anning
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Emily Hobhouse
Born in 1860 Emily Hobhouse campaigned to help the African and Boer farmers, women and children who were rounded up and put in concentration camps in S Africa during the Boer war. Horrfic conditions led to 100,000's deaths. Emily made several visits to the camps and worked tirelessly to help.
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Mary Clarke
Mary Jane Clarke was a member of the Women's Social and Political Union - the Suffragettes - Executive and from 1909 until 1910 served as the organiser for Brighton. Her obituary rightly called her “the first woman martyr who has gone to death for this cause.”
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Virginia Woolf
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Eglantyne Jebb and Dorothy Buxton
Eglantyne Jebb, founder of Save the Children, and her sister, Dorothy Buxton, were part of the Fight the Famine movement, 1918 when Britain’s post war blockade left children in cities like Berlin and Vienna starving. This led to the Save the Children Fund, founded in 1919.[
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Mary Somerville
Pioneering scientist, first female member of The Royal Astronomical Society.
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Mary Anning 1799 - 1847 Palaeontologist
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Sarah Losh
Sara or Sarah Losh (1785–1853) was an English architect and designer. Her biographer describes her as antiquarian, architect and visionary.
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Catherine Marshall
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Caroline Criado-Perez
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Val McDermid
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Alice Hawkins
1863 - 1946 Leicester's working class suffragette. Alice lived most of her life in Leicester. A mother of six and shoe machinist by trade, Alice was determined to have an equal say in the democracy of the day and was imprisoned five times in all in her struggle.
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Vera Lynn
Dame Vera Margaret Lynn CH DBE ( 1917 ), widely known as "the Forces' Sweetheart", is an English singer, songwriter, and actress whose musical recordings and performances were enormously popular during the Second World War.
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Ellen MacArthur
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Elizabeth Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, (1810 –1865), often referred to as Mrs Gaskell, was an English novelist and short story writer during the Victorian era. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of society, including the very poor.
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Margaret Llewelyn Davies
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Sue Ryder
Margaret Susan Cheshire, Baroness Ryder of Warsaw and Baroness Cheshire, CMG, OBE (1924 – 2000), best known as Sue Ryder, was a British volunteer with Special Operations Executive in the Second World War, who afterwards led many charitable organisations, notably the charity named in her honour.
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Selina Cooper
Selina Cooper (1864 – 1946) was an English Suffragist and the first woman to represent the Independent Labour Party in 1901 when she was elected as a Poor Law Guardian.
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Nancy Astor
(1879–1965) was the first woman to serve in the British Parliament, where she advocated temperance, women's rights and German appeasement.
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Annie Kenney
(1879–1953)
an English working class suffragette who became a leading figure in the Women's Social and Political Union. She attracted the attention of the press and the public in 1905 when she, and Christabel Pankhurst, were imprisoned for several days for assault and obstruction.
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Dorothea Beale
Dorothea Beale 1831 –1906 A suffragist, educational reformer, author and Principal of the Cheltenham Ladies' College. She shaped her pupils to provide an ‘army’ of teachers, doctors, mothers and wives who turned the tide by example and by excellence.
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Octavia Hill
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Dame Zaha Hadid DBE
1950 – 2016
an Iraqi-born British architect. The first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize, 2004. She received the Stirling Prize in 2010 & 2011. In 2012, created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. 2015, the first woman to be awarded the RIBA Gold Medal.
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Louise Arner Boyd
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Harriet Taylor Mill
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Eliza Martin
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Jayaben Desai
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Margaret Ann Bulkley
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Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy
The "Nestor" of the Suffragist movement. A campaigner and activist for girls education, healthcare, human rights, universal suffrage and animal rights. Emmeline Pankhurst called her "the brains behind the suffragist movement".
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Annie Besant
19th century activist writer and orator
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Mary Crawley
An architect responsible for the design of school buildings in the post war era. She was the key person who set standards and created the modern school building. She has transformed the lives and minds of thousands of children.
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Harriet Westbrook Shelley
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June Almeida
virologist discoverer and of the corona viruses
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Sheila Kitzinger
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Charlotte Despard
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Eliza Hitchener
Elizabeth Hitchener, a 28-year-old unmarried schoolteacher of advanced views, corresponded with Percy Bysshe Shelley. He called her the "sister of my soul" and "my second self", his muse and confidante in the writing of his philosophical poem Queen Mab, a Utopian allegory.
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Frida Khalo
1907 - 1954. Artist. Her work has been celebrated internationally as emblematic of Mexican national and indigenous traditions, and by feminists for its uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form.
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Mary Quant
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Venice Allen
Bringing women's rights to a new generation of feminists and giving women the opportunity and space to speak about issues that affect them.
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Bridget Riley
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Mary Tealby
(1801/2–1865), Animal welfare organiser and the founder of Battersea Dogs and Cats Home in 1860
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Mo Mowlam
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Phyliss Pearsall
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Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire
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Mary Ferguson
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Mary Webb
Mary Webb (1881 – 1927)
was an English romantic novelist and poet of the early 20th century, whose work is set chiefly in the Shropshire countryside.
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Eglantyne Jebb
(1876 – 1928) was a British social reformer and founder of the Save the Children organisation.
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Cecilia Payne
Astronomer - discovered that hydrogen was the major constituent of stars and in particular the sun and as such was the most common element in the universe
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Grace Kimmins
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Ann Cleeves
1954 -
Award-winning crime writer
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Dame Judi Dench
Dame Judith Olivia "Judi" Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA (1934)
An English actor and author. Dench, ( seven times oscar nominated ) is one of the most significant British theatre performers, she has also received numerous award nominations for her acting in theatre, film and television.
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Jocelyn Bell Burnell
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Margaret Thatcher
Baroness Thatcher (1925 – 2013) British stateswoman and politician. Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, Leader of the Conservative Party 1975 to 1990. The longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and first woman to have held the office.
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
(1900 –1979) was a British–American astronomer and astrophysicist who became acclaimed in her lifetime as the greatest woman astronomer of all time.
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Radcliffe Hall
( 1880 - 1943, London) English writer whose ground breaking novel The Well of Loneliness (1928) created a scandal and was banned for a time in Britain for its treatment of lesbianism.
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Katherine Hughes
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Margaret Pyke
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Emma Cons
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Gertrude Jekyll
(1843 – 1932) British horticulturist, garden designer, craftswoman, photographer, writer and artist.
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