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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 ...
The category is for women of significance in the Victorian era of British history, from 1837–1901. It is a subcategry of People of the Victorian era, and should only contain women active in Britain or in the British Empire .
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 .
Martha Wadsworth Brewster (1710 – c. 1757), American poet and writer; first American-born woman to publish in own name; Magdalene Sophie Buchholm (1758–1825), Norwegian poet; Anna Bunina (1774–1829), Russian poet; Sophia Burrell (1753–1802), English poet and dramatist; Elizabeth Carter (1717–1806), English poet, writer and Bluestocking
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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 ...
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.
Victorian Women Writers Project; Voices from the Gaps: Women Artists & Writers of Color; The Women Writers Archive: Early Modern Women Writers Online; SOPHIE: a digital library of works by German-speaking women; REBRA: a list of women writers from Brazil. Biographies in Portuguese, English and in Spanish