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Charlotte Brontë
British novelist and poet (1816-1855)

Emily Brontë
Emily Jane Brontë was an English writer best known for her 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. She also co-authored a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne entitled Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.

Mary Wollstonecraft
English writer and intellectual (1759–1797)
Anne Brontë
British novelist and poet (1820-1849)
Edith Cavell
British nurse (1865-1915)
Katherine Swynford
Third wife of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster
Claire Clairmont
Mary Shelley's stepsister, mother of Byron's daughter (1798–1879)

Frances Polidori
italian model (1800-1886)
Charlotte Finch
British noble; (1725-1813)
Charlotte Percy, Duchess of Northumberland
English duchess, governess to Princess Victoria, the later Queen Victoria and cultivator of exotic plants (1787-1866)
Elizabeth Elstob
English linguist and feminist (1683-1756)
Lina Eckenstein
German-British polymath and historian
Kat Ashley
English noble
Sarah Burney
English novelist (1772-1844)
Anne Halkett
English religious writer and autobiographer
Anne Beale
Welsh novelist and poet.
Evelyn Cheesman
British entomologist and botanical collector (1881-1969)