This month’s update contains 13 articles, recording women’s lives in a variety of spheres – from accountancy and education to domestic service and musical comedy – in the transformative period of suffrage and after.
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Baldock (née Rogers), (Lucy) Minnie (1864-1954), suffrage activist and campaigner
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Baldwin [née Ridsdale], Lucy, Countess Baldwin of Bewdley (1869–1945), campaigner for maternity care
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Black [née Coats], Janet (1844–1918), philanthropist
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Blaney, Norah [real name: Norah Mignon Cordwell; married names: Lyne; Durham; Hughes] (1893-1983), pianist and revue artist
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Crichton, Edna Annie (née Sturge) (1876-1970), local politician
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Ellis (née Lees), Edith Mary Oldham (1861-1916), writer, lecturer, and socialist
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Farrar, Gwendoline [Gwen] (1897-1944), cellist and revue artist
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Gretton [née Sturge; first married name Henderson], Mary Gertrude Sturge (1871-1961), historian and magistrate
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Gretton, Richard Henry (1874-1936), journalist and historian
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Hoster [née Kalisch], Constance Pauline (1864-1939), promoter of women’s employment and secretarial training
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Kenney, Jessie (1887-1985), suffrage activist
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Oliver, Kathlyn (1884-1953), feminist, founder of a trade union for domestic servants, and proponent of the right to love other women
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Punnett, Margaret (1867-1946), educationalist
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Sowerby [married name: Kendall], (Katherine) Githa (1876-1970), playwright and children’s author
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Stanley [née Croll Dalgairns], Sofia Annie (1873-1953), police officer
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Watts [married name: Watts-Tobin], Ethel (1895-1963), chartered accountant
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