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19th-century Scottish women writers

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Mary Somerville
Scottish scientist, writer and polymath (1780–1872)
Margaret Oliphant
Scottish novelist, 1828–1897 (1828–1897)
Frances Wright
American activist (1795-1852)
Joanna Baillie
Scottish poet and dramatist (1762-1851)
Helen Bannerman
Scottish author of children's books (1862–1946)
Grace Elliott
British socialite, courtesan and memoirist; (1754-1823)
Margaret Todd
Scottish medical doctor, schoolteacher and writer
Anne Barnard
noblewoman; British writer (1750-1825)
Lady Flora Hastings
noblewoman; British aristocrat and lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria's mother (1806-1839)
Florence Dixie
noblewoman; British writer (1855–1905)
Margot Asquith
British socialite, author and wit (1864-1945)
Jane Welsh Carlyle
Scottish writer (1801–1866)
Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair
British author, philanthropist and advocate of woman's interests (1857–1939)
Alicia Ann Spottiswoode
Scottish songwriter and composer (1810-1900)
Mary Brunton
British writer
Louisa Stuart
noblewoman; Daughter of British Prime Minister
Isabella Fyvie Mayo
Scottish poet, novelist, reformer (1843–1914)
Marion Kirkland Reid
Scottish feminist writer
Anne Bannerman
British poet (1765–1829)
Frances Erskine Inglis
Spanish Marquise and chronicler (1804–1882)
Charlotte Carmichael Stopes
British suffragist (1840-1929)
Emily Gerard
British-Austrian writer
Eleanor Vere Boyle
British artist (1825-1916)
Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson
sibling duo
Zainab Cobbold
British Muslim aristocrat
Eliza Brightwen
Scottish naturalist (1830-1906)
Catherine Carswell
British writer (1879–1946)
Katherine Ellice
diarist and artist
Georgina Muir Mackenzie
Balkan sympathizer, writer
Grace Kennedy
Scottish author
Elizabeth Hamilton
Scottish essayist, poet, satirist, novelist (1756/58 – 1816)
Susan Edmonstone Ferrier
Scottish novelist (1782-1854)
Marjorie Fleming
Scottish child writer and poet (1803-1811)
Sarah Broom Macnaughtan
Scottish novelist
Marie Blaze de Bury
Scottish writer and salonniere (1813-1894)