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19th-century English women

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Louisa Adams
First Lady of the United States from 1825 to 1829
Alice Liddell
English woman, basis of the character in "Alice in Wonderland" (1852–1934)
Anne Isabella Byron
English educational reformer and philanthropist (1792-1860)
Mary Ann Cotton
British murderer (1832-1873)
Emma Darwin
wife of Charles Darwin (1808-1896)
Jane Digby
British aristocrat
Dido Elizabeth Belle
British aristocrat
Augusta Leigh
Half-sister of Lord Byron (1783–1851)
Claire Clairmont
Mary Shelley's stepsister, mother of Byron's daughter (1798–1879)
Lucy Walker
English climber (1836-1916)
Anna Russell, Duchess of Bedford
British noble (1783–1857)
Edith Rigby
English suffragette
Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford
English aviator and ornithologist, nurse and hospital manager (1865–1937)
Louisa Twining
English philanthropic worker, editor
Seymour Fleming
British noblewoman (1758-1818)
Almina Herbert, Countess of Carnarvon
English heiress, wife of George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1876–1969)
Mary Bateman
British murderer
Anne Darwin
second child and eldest daughter of Charles and Emma Darwin
Allegra Byron
daughter of George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Claire Clairmont (1817–1822)
Mary Ann Mantell
British paleontologist, scientific illustrator and lithographer
Violetta Thurstan
nurse and weaver
Ivy Cavendish-Bentinck, Duchess of Portland
British duchess (1887-1982)
Miriam Bannister
British-born American supercentenarian
Fanny Brawne
fiancée of John Keats
Lady Mary Coke
British noble (1727-1811)
Elizabeth Medora Leigh
Third daughter of Augusta Leigh (1814–1849)
Hester Pitt, Countess of Chatham
British noblewoman
Constance Kent
English murderer (1844–1944)
Margaret Llewelyn Davies
General secretary of the Co-operative Women's Guild
MacDonald sisters
four 19th century Scottish sisters, notable for their marriages to well-known men
Sophia Hoare
British photographer operating in Tahiti (1836–1915)
Ruth Lewis
British philanthropist
Jane Williams
Shelley's muse
Harriet Phipps
British lady-in-waiting (1841-1922)
Eliza Courtney
illegitimate daughter of Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, and Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
Fanny Davies
British pianist and music teacher (1861–1934)