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English women historians

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Mary Wollstonecraft
English writer and intellectual (1759–1797)
Gertrude Bell
British traveller, writer, mountaineer, politician, archaeologist and spy (1868–1926)
Anita Brookner
English novelist and art historian (1928–2016)
Mary Beard
English classicist (born 1955)
Joan Clarke
English cryptanalyst
Grace Aguilar
English novelist, poet and writer on Jewish history and religion
Amelia Edwards
English novelist, journalist, traveller and egyptologist (1831–1892)
Charlotte Mary Yonge
English writer, editor (1823–1901)
Frances Yates
English historian of the Renaissance (1899–1981)
Bettany Hughes
English popular historian, author, and broadcaster
Catharine Macaulay
English historian, philosopher, feminist (1731-1791)
Marina Warner
writer and mythographer
Agnes Strickland
English writer and editor (1796-1874)
Lucy Aikin
British feminist historian and poet (1781-1864)
Sheila Rowbotham
British historian and feminist
Flora Annie Steel
British historian and writer (1847–1929)
Ella Sophia Armitage
English historian (1841-1931)
Mavis Batey
British cryptoanalyst, diplomat and garden historian (1921-2013)
Marjorie Bowen
British writer (1885–1952)
Lesley Blanch
British writer and historian (1904–2007)
Lucy Worsley
British historian, author, curator, and television presenter
Margaret Gowing
English historian
Averil Cameron
English historian of late antiquity (born 1940)
Rosamond McKitterick
British historian
Julia Pardoe
British writer (1806–1862)
Sarah Sophia Banks
English collector of coins and ephemera (1744-1818)
Emma Georgina Rothschild
English historian
Juliet Barker
British historian
Veronica Wedgwood
English historian (1910–1997)
Elizabeth Elstob
English linguist and feminist (1683-1756)
Anne Marsh-Caldwell
English novelist (1791-1874)
Aileen Fox
English archaeologist (1907-2005)
Winifred Brunton
British and South African artist and egyptologist (1880-1959)
Shahida Rahman
English writer
Anne Curry
British military historian
Helen Castor
English historian
Marjorie Chibnall
British historian (1915-2012)
Edith Ditmas
Archivist, historian, and writer
Julia Barrow
British medieval historian
Bridget Allchin
English archaeologist, specializing in South Asian archaeology
Florence Ada Keynes
English social reformer and political figure in Cambridge (1861-1958)
Frances Julia Wedgwood
English feminist novelist, philosopher, and intellectual historian (1833-1913)
Mildred K. Pope
English philologist (1872–1956)
Alice Gardner
English historian
Edith Morley
English literary scholar and suffragette (1875–1964)
Kathryn Warner
English historian
Nina Frances Layard
British writer and archaeologist (1853-1935)
Dorothy Whitelock
English historian (1901–1982)
Margaret Child-Villiers
English political hostess and philanthropist
Ursula Dronke
British scholar of Old Norse and medieval studies
Helen Cam
British historian (1885–1968)
Sarah Foot
English Anglican priest and historian (born 1961)
Elizabeth Helme
British writer
Mary Chamberlain
British historian
Ann Williams
English historian
A. E. Levett
English economic historian (1881–1932)
Patricia Clavin
British historian and academic
Cecilia Mary Ady
historian
Alison Adburgham
British journalist, author and social historian
Patricia Carson
English historian and author (1929–2014)