Category
page 1British salon-holders

Augusta, Lady Gregory
Irish playwright, poet, folklorist (1852-1932)
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
English socialite, style icon, author, and activist (1757–1806)
Barbara Bodichon
British educationalist, artist, feminist and activist for women's rights (1827-1891)
Elizabeth Montagu
British social reformer, patron of the arts, hostess, literary critic, and writer; (1718-1800)
Jane Marcet
British writer of scientific books
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
Irish writer, editor (1789-1849)
Rose Scott
Australian suffragist (1847-1925)
Helen Maria Williams
English novelist, poet, translator, religious dissenter, abolitionist (1759/62-1827)
Violet Hunt
British writer (1862-1942)
Hester Thrale
Welsh author and salon-holder (1741-1821)
Olivia Shakespear
British writer
Anna Doyle Wheeler
writer and women's rights advocate
Moyna Macgill
Irish actress (1895-1975)

Nora Kershaw Chadwick
British medievalist (1891-1972)
Mary Mohl
British author and salonnière (1793-1883)
Mary Boyle
British literary hostess

Kensington Society
former British suffragette discussion society
Marie Blaze de Bury
Scottish writer and salonniere (1813-1894)
Mary Nesbitt
British socialite and courtesan