Great British women

[chirpychirpy]

I can think of many great British men, like Churchill, Brunel, Logie Baird, Charles Darwin, Shakespeare, Faraday, Cliff (!), The Beatles, Lloyd Webber, Richard Branson, etc, but very few great British women except Florence Nightingale, Maggie Thatcher and a few 60s singers. Please can you suggest some great British women.

[tiggerblue10]

Elizabeth I.

[emmie]

Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Jane austen, Vita Sackville West, Vera Brittain, Julia Margaret Cameron, to name just a few

[annadomino]

Elizabeth Fry

[bookbinder]

There isn't enough room here, so this webpage should start you off:
http://www.dailymail....st-British-women.html

[sandyRoe]

Marie Stopes

[emmie]

Sylvia and Emmeline Pankhurst, Princess Diana, like her or not, she changed the monarchy forever.

[pretty_snowdrop]

The queen and the queen mother.

[bazwillrun]

Margaret Thatcher
Boudica

[emmie]

I include Lady Astor even though she was born in America, first woman MP

[emmie]

Rachel Heyhoe Flint, cricketer, Sally Gunnell athletics, beth tweddle gymnastics, fatima whitbread javelin, Judy Dench, Vanessa Redgrave acting,

[emmie]

not short of famous women, should include those in the medical profession
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, first woman doctor.

[missprim]

Queen Victoria.

[paddywak]

You can scrap lady Astor, though she was the first lady MP to actually take her seat in Parliament, the first lady MP was actually Constance Markievicz elected for, if I remember rightly for one of the Dublin wards. She refused to take the oath of allegiance and never took her seat in parliament.

[Jonathan-Joe]

Ada Lovelace - pioneer in computing

[emmie]

paddywak, Lady Astor stays, she was famous in her day, and is still credited, rightly or wrongly as the first woman MP

[firewatch]

code breakers of bletchley parkx

[emmie]

firewatch, not all women

[firewatch]

i know but some where

[naomi24]

Emmeline Pankhurst, Edith Cavell.

[douglas9401]

Elsie Inglis