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Magdalen Berns (6 May 1983 – 13 September 2019) [4] was a British YouTuber.Berns, a lesbian radical feminist, became known for her series of YouTube vlogs in the late 2010s concerning topics such as women's rights [2] [8] and gender identity.
Lady Evelyn Cobbold (née Murray; 17 July 1867 [2] – 25 January 1963), also known as Zainab Cobbold, was a Scottish diarist, traveller and noblewoman who was known for her conversion to Islam in 1915.
This is a list of peerages created for women in the peerages of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom. It does not include peerages created for men which were later inherited by women, or life peerages created since 1958 under the Life Peerages Act 1958. Background Prior to the regular creation of life peerages, the great majority of peerages were created for men ...
Eliza Orme was the first woman in the United Kingdom to obtain a law degree, in 1888. [7] [8] She was not called to the English Bar until later in the 1920s after the first female pioneers. In 1889, Letitia Alice Walkington became the first woman to graduate with a degree of Bachelor of Laws in Great Britain or Ireland.
David Allan's painting of Highland wedding from 1780. In the late Middle Ages and early modern era, girls could marry from the age of 12 (while for boys it was from 14) and, while many girls from the social elite married in their teens, most in the Lowlands married only after a period of life-cycle [clarification needed] service, in their twenties. [3]
Post-nominal letters are used in the United Kingdom after a person's name in order to indicate their positions, qualifications, memberships, or other status. There are various established orders for giving these, e.g. from the Ministry of Justice, Debrett's, and A & C Black's Titles and Forms of Address, which are generally in close agreement.
Painting by Edward Burne-Jones. Lady Frances Balfour (née Campbell; 22 February 1858 – 25 February 1931) [1] was a British aristocrat, author, and suffragist. She was one of the highest-ranking members of the British aristocracy to assume a leadership role in the Women's suffrage campaign in the United Kingdom.
Alice Meynell was a vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, founded by Cicely Hamilton and active 1908–19. [24] Meynell, unknown date. Meynell was one of the early founders of the Catholic women's organisation, Catholic Women's Suffrage Society in support of peaceful means for the achievement of equal suffrage rights for women. [25]