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Pages in category "19th-century British women" The following 83 pages are in this category, out of 83 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Victorian women writers (1 C, 233 P) Pages in category "19th-century British women writers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 244 total.
This is an alphabetical list of female novelists who were active in England and Wales, and the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland before approximately 1800. "Beauty in search of knowledge". (Young woman in front of a circulating library , where most readers accessed novels in the 18th century.
Bibliography of Early Modern Women Writers That Are In Print; British Women Playwrights around 1800; The Brown University Women Writers Project; A Celebration of Women Writers; Emory Women Writers Resource Project; Images of Early Modern, 20th and 21st Century British Female Playwrights; List of biographical dictionaries, with a focus on 17thc ...
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:19th-century English Jews and Category:19th-century English LGBTQ people and Category:19th-century English women The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
She was a leading mid-19th-century feminist and women's rights activist. [2] [3] She published her influential Brief Summary of the Laws of England concerning Women in 1854 and the English Woman's Journal in 1858. Bodichon co-founded Girton College, Cambridge (1869). Her brother was the Arctic explorer Benjamin Leigh Smith.
The names of many widows active in the profession is known from the 16th century, such as Nicole Vostre (fl. 1537), Jeanne Bruneau, and Sibille de La Porte (fl. 1593). [17] In the first half of the 17th century, 208 widow printers and publishers were active in France, and during the 17th century, about 540 widows are estimated to have been ...
The Blue Stockings Society was an informal women's social and educational movement in England in the mid-18th century that emphasised education and mutual cooperation. It was founded in the early 1750s by Elizabeth Montagu , Elizabeth Vesey and others as a literary discussion group , a step away from traditional, non-intellectual women's ...