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British feminists

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16th-century

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Name Nationality (Born-died) Other
Jane Anger   b. 16th century Feminist

17th-century

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Name Nationality (Born-died) Other
Mary Astell   (c. 1666–1731) Feminist
Aphra Behn   (1640–1689) Feminist
Anne Bradstreet   (1612–1672) Feminist

18th-century

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Name Nationality (Born-died) Other
Elanor Butler (Ladies of Llangollen)   (1739–1829) Feminist
Jane Gomeldon   (d. 1779) Feminist
Christian Isobel Johnstone   (1781–1857) Feminist
Sarah Ponsonby (Ladies of Llangollen)   (1755–1831) Feminist
Mary Shelley   (1797–1851) Feminist
Anna Wheeler     (1785–1848) Feminist
Mary Wollstonecraft   (1759–1797) Feminist
Frances Wright   (1795–1852) Feminist

Early and mid 19th-century

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These were born in up to and including 1874.

Name Nationality (Born-died) Other
Adelaide Anderson   (1863–1936) Feminist
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson   (1836–1917) Feminist, suffragette
Louisa Garrett Anderson   (1873–1943) Feminist, suffragette
John Goodwyn Barmby   (1820–1881) Feminist
Lydia Becker   (1827–1890) Feminist, suffragette
Annie Besant   (1847–1933) Socialist feminist
Barbara Bodichon   (1827–1891) Feminist
Ursula Mellor Bright   (1835–1915) Feminist, suffragette
Lady Constance Bulwer-Lytton   (1869–1923) Feminist, suffragette
Josephine Butler   (1828–1906) Feminist
Ada Nield Chew   (1870–1945) Feminist, suffragette
Alice Clark   (1874–1934) Feminist
Helen Bright Clark   (1840–1972) Feminist, suffragette
Florence Claxton   (1840–1879) Feminist
Marion Coates Hansen   (1870–1947) Feminist, suffragette
Emily Wilding Davison   (1872–1913) Feminist, suffragette
Charlotte Despard (née French)   (1844–1939) Feminist, suffragette
Emily Faithfull   (1835–1895) Feminist
Millicent Garrett Fawcett   (1847–1929) Feminist, suffragette
Mary Sargant Florence   (1857–1954) Feminist, suffragette
Isabella Ford   (1855–1924) Socialist feminist, suffragette
Emma Goldman   (1869–1940) Anarcha-feminist
Jane Ellen Harrison   (1850–1928) Feminist
Laurence Housman   (1865–1959) Socialist feminist
Louisa Hubbard   (1836–1906) Feminist
Grace Kimmins   (1871–1954) Feminist
Anna Kingsford   (1846–1888) Ecofeminist
Anna Leonowens     (1831–1915) Feminist
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll   (1848–1939) Feminist, suffragette
Margaret Bright Lucas   (1818–1890) Feminist, suffragette
Christian Maclagan   (1811–1901) Feminist
Kitty Marion   (1871–1944) Socialist feminist, suffragette
Harriet Martineau   (1802–1876) Feminist
Eleanor Marx   (1855–1898) Socialist feminist
Helen Priscilla McLaren   (1851–1934) Feminist
Harriet Taylor Mill   (1807–1858) Feminist
John Stuart Mill   (1806–1873) Feminist
Hannah Mitchell   (1872–1956) Socialist feminist, suffragette
Flora Murray   (1869–1923) Feminist, suffragette
Emmeline Pankhurst   (1858–1928) Feminist, suffragette
Eleanor Rathbone   (1872–1946) Feminist
Dorothy Richardson   (1873–1957) Feminist
Edith Rigby   (1872–1948) Feminist, suffragette
Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff   (1814–1897) Feminist
Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick   (1845–1936) Feminist
Dame Ethel Mary Smyth   (1858–1944) Feminist, suffragette
Helena Swanwick   (1864–1939) Feminist, suffragette
Frances Swiney   (1847–1922) Feminist, suffragette
Sybil Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda   (1857–1941) Feminist, suffragette
Beatrice Webb   (1858–1943) Socialist feminist
Charlotte Wilson   (1854–1944) Radical feminist

Late 19th-century and early 20th-century

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These were born in 1875 to 1939.

Name Nationality (Born-died) Other
Margery Corbett Ashby   (1882–1981) Feminist, suffragette
Joan Beauchamp   (1890–1964) Feminist, suffragette
Kay Beauchamp   (1899–1992) Feminist
Helen Bentwich   (1892–1972) Feminist
Rosa May Billinghurst   (1875–1953) Feminist, suffragette
Teresa Billington-Greig   (1877–1964) Feminist, suffragette
Elsie Bowerman   (1889–1973) Feminist, suffragette
Katherine Burdekin   (1896–1963) Feminist
Enid Charles   (1894–1972) Radical feminist
Jill Craigie   (1911–1999) Socialist feminist
Norah Elam     (1878–1961) Radical feminist, suffragette
Frances Farrer   (1895–1977) Feminist
Jane Goodall   (b. 1934) Feminist
Charlotte Haldane   (1894–1969) Feminist
Caroline Haslett   (1895–1957) Feminist
Edith How-Martyn   (1875–1954) Feminist, suffragette
Claudia Jones     (1915–1964) Feminist, suffragette
Annie Kenney   (1879–1953) Feminist, suffragette
Mina Loy   (1882–1966) Feminist
Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda   (1883–1958) Feminist, suffragette
Dora Marsden   (1882–1960) Feminist
Elizabeth Holloway Marston   (1893–1993) Feminist
Helena Normanton   (1882–1957) Feminist
Adela Pankhurst   (1885–1961) Feminist
Christabel Pankhurst   (1880–1958) Feminist, suffragette
Sylvia Pankhurst   (1882–1960) Feminist, suffragette
Frances Parker   (1875–1924) Feminist
Erin Pizzey   (b. 1939) Second-wave feminist
Marion Phillips   (1881–1932) Feminist, suffragette
Claire Rayner   (1931–2010) Feminist
Mary Richardson   (1889–1961) Feminist, suffragette
Hilary Rose (sociologist)   (b. 1935) Feminist
Agnes Maude Royden   (1876–1956) Feminist, suffragette
Dora Russell   (1894–1986) Feminist
Flora Sandes   (1876–1956) Feminist (Sgt. Major Serbian Army)
Baroness Seear   (1913–1997) Feminist
Kate Soper   (b. 1943) Feminist
Jo Spence   (1934–1992) Feminist
Marie Stopes   (1880–1958) Feminist
Mary Stott   (1907–2002) Feminist
Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill   (1901–1980) Feminist
Mavis Tate   (1893–1947) Feminist
Winifred Todhunter   (1877–1961) Feminist
Jill Tweedie   (1936–1993) Feminist
Harriet Shaw Weaver   (1876–1961) Feminist, suffragette
Nesta Helen Webster   (1876–1960) Feminist
Audrey Wise   (1935–2000) Feminist
Virginia Woolf   (1882–1941) Feminist

Mid and late 20th-century and all 21st-century

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These were born in 1940 onwards.

Name Nationality (Born-died) Other
Lesley Abdela   (b. 1945) Feminist
Haleh Afshar   (b. 1944) Muslim feminist
Melissa Benn   (b. 1957) Third-wave feminist
Julie Bindel   (b. 1962) Anti-prostitution feminist, anti-pornography feminist
Rosie Boycott   (b. 1951) Feminist
Louise Burfitt-Dons   (b. 1953) Conservative Feminist
Beatrix Campbell   (b. 1947) Second-wave feminist
Angela Carter   (1940–1992) Socialist feminist
Mary Clark-Glass   (b. 20th century) Feminist
Rosalind Coward   (b. 1952) Feminist
Gail Dines   (b. c. 1958) anti-pornography feminist
Carol Ann Duffy   (b. 1955) Feminist
Fadia Faqir     (b. 1956) Feminist
Juliette Fretté   (b. 1983) Sex-positive feminist
Lindsey German   (b. 1951) Feminist
Lucy Goodison   (b. c. 1940s) Feminist
Daphne Hampson   (b. 1944) Feminist
Gillian Howie   (1955–2013) Feminist
Stevi Jackson   b. 20th century Material feminist
Claire Johnston   (1940–1987) Feminist
John Lennon   (1940–1980) Feminist
Ellie Levenson   (b. 1978) Feminist
Sara Maitland   (b. 1950) Feminist
Angela Mason   (b. 1944) Second-wave feminist
Angela McRobbie   (b. 1951) Feminist
Juliet Mitchell   (b. 1940) Socialist feminist
Tracey Moberly   (b. 1964) Feminist
Maxine Molyneux   (b. 1948) Feminist
Caitlin Moran   (b. 1975) Feminist
Laura Mulvey   (b. 1941) Feminist
Sally Rowena Munt   b. 20th century Feminist
Jenni Murray   (b. 1950) Feminist
Ann Oakley   (b. 1944) Second-wave feminist
Carole Pateman   (b. 1940) Feminist
Sheila Rowbotham   (b. 1943) Second-wave feminist
Jacqueline Rose   (b. 1949) Feminist
Gita Sahgal     (b. 1956/57) Feminist
Carol Smart   b. 20th century Feminist
Joan Smith   (b. 1953) Third-wave feminist
Kate Smurthwaite   (b. 1975) Feminist
Patrick Stewart   (b. 1940) Socialist feminist
Lucy Suchman   b. 20th century Third-wave feminist, cyberfeminist
Helen Sworn   b. 20th century Anti-prostitution feminist
Hilary Wainwright   (b. 1949) Second-wave feminist, socialist feminist
Natasha Walter   (b. 1967) Third-wave feminist
Valerie Wise   (b. 1955) Feminist