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This category contains female writers active in the United Kingdom and the British Empire during the Victorian era (the reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1901). This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Victorian writers .
It is a subcategry of People of the Victorian era, and should only contain women active in Britain or in the British Empire. Only women who were notable during the Victorian era should be placed here: women who were born during the Victoria era, but active later, such as in the Edwardian era , should not be placed here.
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The iconic wide-brimmed women's hats of the later Victorian era also followed the trend towards ostentatious display. Hats began the Victorian era as simple bonnets. By the 1880s, milliners were tested by the competition among women to top their outfits with the most creative (and extravagant) hats, designed with expensive materials such as ...
This category is for feminine given names from England (natively, or by historical modification of Biblical, etc., names). See also Category:English-language feminine given names , for all those commonly used in the modern English language , regardless of origin.
Some names that topped the baby names charts in the 1940s remain popular today. James and William were in the top 10 ranked names in the 1940s and appeared again in the most recent list from 2023 ...
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. Mezzotint, printed by R. Sayer & J. Bennett ...
The Victorian era (1837−1901) was the period during the reign of Queen Victoria and the 19th century Modern period of the United Kingdom See also the preceding Category:Georgian era and the succeeding Category:Edwardian era