British women's history: notable women. Biographies and other information on individual English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish women in history.

British women's history: notable women. Biographies and other information on individual English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish women in history.

British Women Writers, African American Women Writers

Highlighing key British (and English) women writers, including Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, and many more.

Women of Britain in medieval times - abbesses, saints, ordinary women, queens, rulers and more.

An ever-expanding list of biographies of notable women in British history, both those who are famous and those who should be more well known.

British women's suffrage: English and Scottish women struggle for the right to vote.

During the Middle Ages, men ruled -- except when women did. Here are a few of the women who were queens or queen consorts, or otherwise ruled in the British isles.

Millicent Garrett Fawcett was a leader of the constitutional faction of the British women's suffrage movement, advocating more peaceful and gradual means of winning the vote.

Women in Britain who were canonized as Saints, and who lived in the Middle Ages. During Medieval times, recognition as a saint was often a recognition of a woman's power, either as a leader of a community, or an influence on wider events and culture.