Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

female, deceased (1941)
death by drowning, Mrs. Dalloway, suicide by drowning, Women novelist, stephen, Englishwomenwriter…Women essayist, Women diarist, Women writer, English, LGBT writer
Virginia Woolf (née Stephen was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth c...
Elizabeth I of England

Elizabeth I of England

female, deceased (1603)
Women writer, Protestant monarch, Pretenders to the throne of the kingdom of France, buried at Westminster Abbey, queen of france, Englishwomenwriter…English claims to the French throne, English, Founder of English schools and colleges
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 - 24 March 1603) was Queen of England, Queen of France (in name only), and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558...
Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft

female, deceased (1797)
Feminist, death by sepsis, historian, Women travel writer, Englishwomenwriter, feminist philosopher…Women novelist, Women writer, Non-fiction writer, English, Travel writer
Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 - 10 September 1797) was a British writer, philosopher and feminist. During her brief career, she wrote novels,...
Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

female, deceased (1976)
Autodidact, Englishwomenwriter, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, From berkshire, from Sunningdale, wartime nurse…Mystery Writer of America, mystery writer, Short story writer, English, Crime fiction writer
Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, DBE, and many have been adapted for television and radio and video games.
Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti

female, deceased (1894)
Christian hymnwriter, Sonneteers, Victorian poetry, buried at Highgate Cemetery, Englishwomenwriter, Women poet…English
Christina Georgina Rossetti (December 5, 1830 - December 29, 1894) was an English poet. Her siblings were the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti,...
Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley

female, deceased (1851)
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley, Englishwomenwriter, Romantic poet, romantic poetry, Romanticism, Science Fiction Hall of Fame…Travel writer, science fiction writer, Horror writer, English
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley was an English romantic/gothic novelist and the author of "Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus". She was...
Annie Besant

Annie Besant

female, deceased (1933)
Theosophist, Non-fiction writer, theosophy, Birth control activist, Englishwomenwriter, From Varanasi…Dharmic writer, writer, English, Occult writer, English spiritual writer
Annie Wood Besant was a prominent Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator.
Edith Sitwell

Edith Sitwell

female, deceased (1964)
Englishwomenwriter, Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Women poet, From Scarborough, English, British…writer
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE (7 September, 1887 - 9 December, 1964) was a British poet and critic.
Vera Brittain

Vera Brittain

female, deceased (1970)
Christian pacifism, Englishwomenwriter, Voluntary Aid Detachment, macclesfield, buxton, Pacifist…Women poet, writer, English
Vera Mary Brittain was an English writer, feminist and pacifist, best remembered as the author of the best-selling 1933 memoir "Testament of...
Sheila Cassidy

Sheila Cassidy

female, 72 years old
torture victim, Englishwomenwriter, Villa Grimaldi, Audacity to Believe, Santiago, Chile, Hospice Care…English
Sheila Cassidy (born 1937) is a British doctor, known for her work in the hospice movement, as a writer and as someone who, by publicising her own...