Women of the Regency era

Jane Austen was an English writer known primarily for her six novels, which implicitly interpret, critique, and comment on the English landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her father was the political philosopher William Godwin and her mother was the philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft.

Irish writer (1768-1849)

queen consort of King George IV of the United Kingdom (1768-1821)

English writer (1785-1828)

English landowner and lesbian diarist (1791–1840)

English poet (1793-1835)

noblewoman; British aristocrat, antiquarian and archaeologist (1776–1839)

British poet and novelist (1802–1838)

English educational reformer and philanthropist (1792-1860)

Irish writer, editor (1789-1849)

Scottish historical novelist, dramatist and literary figure (1776-1850)

imposter princess (1791–1864)

Mistress of British king (1756-1837)

noblewoman; British aristocrat and lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria's mother (1806-1839)

diarist (1793-1834)

English noble (1745-1826); most notorious of the famous Lennox sisters

British writer (1799–1861)

English landowner (1803-1854)

mistress of George IV

English courtesan and diarist

British noble, mistress of King George IV

British writer

Mother of the Bronte sisters (1783-1821)

British writer (1775-1827)

Irish painter (1775-1847)

English noblewoman

British noblewoman (1758-1818)

Wife of the Duke of Wellington (1773–1831)

British linguist and artist

English novelist (1772-1844)

English writer

British countess (1755-1824)

actress

British writer and courtesan (1786-1846)

British foundling girl taken in when she was 12 by author Thomas Day

Scottish essayist, poet, satirist, novelist (1756/58 – 1816)

Irish actress (1791-1872)

British countess (1787-1869)

English actress and peeress in the nineteenth century