The September 2019 update adds 35 new articles, containing 32 biographies, accompanied by 6 portrait likenesses. 2019 is the bicentenary year of Queen Victoria’s birth and the particular focus of this month’s update is on the Victorian age. The themes covered include art, literature, music, business, medicine, women Chartists, suffragists, and the Great Exhibition.
From September 2019, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford DNB) offers biographies of 63,399 men and women who have shaped the British past, contained in 61,131 articles. 11,709 biographies include a portrait image of the subject – researched in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Read the full editorial introduction to this month’s update.
New and updated subjects - September 2019
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Abadam, Alice (1856–1940), suffrage activist and women’s right’s campaigner
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The Association for Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge (act. 1851–1868)
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Chapman [née Chapman; former married name Guest], Adeline Mary (1847-1931), campaigner for women’s suffrage
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Cope, Sir Arthur Stockdale (1857-1940), art educator and portrait painter
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Cozens, Mary Elizabeth (1857-1920), campaigner for women’s suffrage
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Dutt, Toru (1856-1877), Indian poet, translator, and novelist
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Founders of the Victoria League (act. 1901-1914)
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Gaggiotti (married name Gaggiotti Richards), Emma Camilla Angela Maria (1825-1912), artist
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Gilbert, Mary Ann (1776-1845), agronomist and promoter of allotments
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Hanson (née Fell), Elizabeth (1797/8-1886), anti-poor law campaigner and Chartist
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Hare, Mary Adelaide (1865-1945), teacher of the deaf and campaigner for women's suffrage
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Hatton, Bessie Lyle (1867-1964), actress, author, and suffrage activist
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Heneage, Edward, first Baron Heneage (1840 – 1922), politician and landowner
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Holmes [née Milner], Marion (or Marian) Emma (1867-1943), campaigner for women’s suffrage
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Horner, Charles (1837-1896), watchmaker and jeweller
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Hughes, Edward Robert (1851-1914), painter
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Jack, Alexia Butter (1863-1948), schoolteacher and campaigner for women’s suffrage
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Kyllmann [née Baret], Philippine Eléanor Estelle Esther (1833-1916), supporter of the women’s suffrage movement
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Lewis, Waller Augustus (bap. 1816, d. 1882), public health reformer and chief medical officer at the General Post Office
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Lloyd, Edward (1845–1927), singer
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Major, Mary Henniker- (1838-1902), political organizer
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Mann [née Burnett], Alice (1791-1865), radical and publisher
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Neesom, Elizabeth (1797/8-1866), Chartist and reformer
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Palliser, Edith Charlotte Bury (1859-1927), campaigner for women’s suffrage
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Parsons, Beatrice Emma (1869-1955), artist
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Reid [née Kirkland], Marion (1815-1902), feminist writer
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Ross, Andrew (1798-1859), optician
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Roy, Lolita [known as Mrs P.L. Roy] (b. 1865), social reformer and suffragist
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Speirs, (Robert Cunningham) Graham (1797-1847), Sheriff of Midlothian
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Stephenson, (Sara) Jessie (1873-1966), suffragette
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The makers of the Great Exhibition of 1851 (act. 1848-1851)
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Thomasson (née Lucas), Katharine (1841-1932), philanthropist and supporter of women’s causes
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Watkin, Absalom (1787–1861), reformer and diarist
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Watson, Sir William George, first baronet (1861-1930), food retailer and manufacturer
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