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This page is currently under construction, and in time we hope to provide short biographies for each of the women listed below. Please do not hesitate to suggest anybody we've neglected at unbolt@gmail.com.

Louisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888)
Mildred Aldrich (1853 – 1928)
Clementina Anstruther-Thomson (1857 – 1921)
Ethel Arnold (1866 – 1930)
Mary Austin (1868 – 1934)
Minnie Benson (1842 – 1918)
Annie Besant (1847 – 1933)
Matilda Betham-Edwards (1836 – 1919)
Katherine Bradley (1846 – 1914)
Emma Brooke (1845 – 1926)
Kathleen Caffyn ‘Iota’ (1853 – 1926)
Mona Caird (1855 – 1932)
Kate Chopin (1850 – 1904)
Jane Hume Clapperton (1832 – 1914)
Clara Collet (1860 – 1948)
Edith Cooper (1862 – 1913)
Marie Corelli (1855 – 1924)
Victoria Cross (1868 – 1952)
Charlotte Cushman (1816 – 1876)
Ella D’Arcy (1851 – 1939)
Gertrude Dix
Lady Florence Dixie (1855 – 1905)
Ella Hepworth Dixon (1857 – 1932)
Menie Muriel Dowie (1866 – 1945)
Bella Duffy
George Egerton (1859 – 1945)
Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847 – 1929)
Isabella Ford (1855 – 1924)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 – 1935)
Sarah Grand (1854 – 1943)
Frances Ralph Gray (1863 – 1935)
Margaret Harkness (1861 – 1921)
Constance Howell
Alice James (1848 – 1892)
Sarah Orne  Jewett (1848 – 1909)
Sophia Jex-Blake (1840 – 1912)
Vernon Lee (1856 – 1935)
Ada Leverson (1862 – 1933)
Amy Levy (1861 – 1889)
Violet Martin (1862 – 1915)
Eleanor Marx (1855 – 1898)
Constance Maynard (1849 – 1935)
Charlotte Mew (1869 – 1928)
Maud Ogilvy
Maragret Oliphant (1828 – 1897)
Ouida (1839 – 1908)
Beatrix Potter (1866 – 1943)
Ada Radford (1859 – 1934)
Anne Richardson
Christina Rossetti (1830 – 1894)
Olive Shreiner (1855 – 1920)
Cecily Sidgwick (1854 – 1934)
Ethyl Smyth (1858 – 1944)
Edith Somerville (1858 – 1949)
Netta Syrett (1865 – 1943)
Margot Tennant (1864 – 1945)
Margaret Todd (1859 – 1918)
Bertha Vyver
Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937)
Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840 – 1894)
Mabel Wotton (1863 – 1927)