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Abenon, Elizabeth d' (b. 1340, d. after 1394)  

Anne Polden

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Aston, Magdalene, Lady Aston (d. 1635)  

E. C. Vernon

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Babthorpe, Grace (c. 1563–1635)  

J. T. Cliffe

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Bacon [Cooke], Anne, Lady Bacon (c. 1528–1610)  

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Anne Bacon, Lady Bacon (c. 1528–1610) by unknown artist reproduced by permission of the Earl of Verulam. Photograph: Photographic Survey, Courtauld Institute of Art, London

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Bacon [née Cooke], Anne, Lady Bacon (c. 1528–1610), gentlewoman and scholar  

Lynne Magnusson

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Bacon [née Cooke], Anne, Lady Bacon (c. 1528–1610), gentlewoman and scholar, was probably born at Gidea Hall, Essex. She was third of the nine children of Sir Anthony Cooke (1505/6–1576), one of the humanist educators who tutored Edward VI, and Anne (...

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Barrington [née Lytton], Judith, Lady Barrington (d. 1657), gentlewoman  

Caroline M. K. Bowden

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Barrington [née Lytton], Judith, Lady Barrington (d. 1657), gentlewoman, was the daughter of the MP Sir Rowland Lytton (d. 1615) of Knebworth, Hertfordshire. Her family had puritan sympathies and was one in which daughters were encouraged to read. In 1612 she married ...

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Basset, Adeliza (d. in or after 1210)  

Kathleen Thompson

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Beauchamp, Rohese de (d. 1166)  

Kathryn Faulkner

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Blount, Martha (1690–1763)  

Maker: Charles Jervas

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Martha Blount (1690–1763) by Charles Jervas, 1716 [Blount sisters [left to right]: and Teresa Blount (1688–1759)] reproduced by permission of the Mapledurham Trust. Photograph: Photographic Survey, Courtauld Institute of Art, London

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Blount, Martha (1690–1763), Roman Catholic gentlewoman  

Valerie Rumbold

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Blount, Martha (1690–1763), Roman Catholic gentlewoman, was born on 15 June 1690 at the family estate of Mapledurham, Berkshire, the third child (but second eldest surviving) of six born to Lister Blount (1654–1710) and his wife, Martha (d. 1743), daughter of Anthony Englefield...

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Bourchier, Margaret, countess of Bath (1510–1561)  

Joy Rowe

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Calle, Margery (b. c. 1450)  

Colin Richmond

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Chaworth, Alice (1345–1400)  

S. J. Payling

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Chaworth, Isabel (1402–1458)  

S. J. Payling

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Constable, Katherine (d. c. 1404)  

Rosemary Horrox

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Dacre, Jane, Lady Dacre (d. 1575)  

Henry Summerson

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Danby, Elizabeth (d. 1629)  

J. T. Cliffe

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Danby, Frances (d. 1654)  

J. T. Cliffe

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Darcy, Margaret [née Margaret Grey of Wilton], Lady Darcy (d. 1454)  

Anthony Verduyn

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Darcy, Mary, Lady Darcy of Chiche (1565/6–1644)  

Joy Rowe

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