@rosiehharte: Celebrating some early British feminists! Here’s a cheat sheet for everyone included: 1. Mary Wollestoncraft (feminist philosopher, nicknamed a hyena in petticoats) 2. Mary Somerville (scientist, education campaigner) 3. Harriet Martineau (writer and sociologist) 4. Eliza Sharples (political lecturer and publisher) 5. Harriet Taylor Mill (essayist) 6. John Stuart Mill and his step daughter Helen Taylor (feminist author, philosopher, activist) 7. Manchester members of the National Society for Women’s Sufferage 8. Lydia Becker (biologist and founder of the Women’s Suffrage Journal) 9. Lily Maxwell (first known British woman to vote in a general election) 10. Sarah Parker Remond (anti-slavery activist and suffragist) 11. Barbara Bodichon (artist who fought to reform women’s legal rights) 12. Sophia Jex-Blake (first female undergraduate in Britain, education campaigner) 13. Cornelia Sorabji (first woman to study law at Oxford) 14. Catherine Impey (anti-racism activist and anti-imperialist) 15. Anna Mary Howitt (artist and spiritualist) 16. Lady Blanche Lindsay (artist and gallery owner that platforms women artists) 17. Mary Lowndes (artist and founder of the artist’s suffrage league) 18. Princesses Bamba, Catherine, and Sophia Singh 19. Princess Sophia Singh (Princess of the Punjab and Suffragist) 20. Lady Florence Dixie (writer and feminist philanthropist) 21. Eleanor Marx (daughter of Karl Marx, socialist and feminist) 22. Nettie Honeyball (founded the first professional women’s football team) 23. May Morris (artist, socialist, feminist) #feminism #19thcentury #victorianera #feminismedit #womenshistory

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Thursday 28 May 2026 22:05:32 GMT