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British feminists

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16th-century

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

17th-century

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

18th-century

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Name Nationality (Born-died) Other
Elanor Butler (Ladies of Llangollen) United Kingdom (1739–1829) Feminist
Jane Gomeldon United Kingdom (d. 1779) Feminist
Christian Isobel Johnstone United Kingdom (1781–1857) Feminist
Sarah Ponsonby (Ladies of Llangollen) United Kingdom (1755–1831) Feminist
Mary Shelley United Kingdom (1797–1851) Feminist
Anna Wheeler United Kingdom Republic of Ireland (1785–1848) Feminist
Mary Wollstonecraft United Kingdom (1759–1797) Feminist
Frances Wright United Kingdom (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 United Kingdom (1863–1936) Feminist
Elizabeth Garrett Anderson United Kingdom (1836–1917) Feminist, suffragette
Louisa Garrett Anderson United Kingdom (1873–1943) Feminist, suffragette
John Goodwyn Barmby United Kingdom (1820–1881) Feminist
Lydia Becker United Kingdom (1827–1890) Feminist, suffragette
Annie Besant United Kingdom (1847–1933) Socialist feminist
Barbara Bodichon United Kingdom (1827–1891) Feminist
Ursula Mellor Bright United Kingdom (1835–1915) Feminist, suffragette
Lady Constance Bulwer-Lytton United Kingdom (1869–1923) Feminist, suffragette
Josephine Butler United Kingdom (1828–1906) Feminist
Ada Nield Chew United Kingdom (1870–1945) Feminist, suffragette
Alice Clark United Kingdom (1874–1934) Feminist
Helen Bright Clark United Kingdom (1840–1972) Feminist, suffragette
Florence Claxton United Kingdom (1840–1879) Feminist
Marion Coates Hansen United Kingdom (1870–1947) Feminist, suffragette
Emily Wilding Davison United Kingdom (1872–1913) Feminist, suffragette
Charlotte Despard (née French) United Kingdom (1844–1939) Feminist, suffragette
Emily Faithfull United Kingdom (1835–1895) Feminist
Millicent Garrett Fawcett United Kingdom (1847–1929) Feminist, suffragette
Mary Sargant Florence United Kingdom (1857–1954) Feminist, suffragette
Isabella Ford United Kingdom (1855–1924) Socialist feminist, suffragette
Emma Goldman United Kingdom (1869–1940) Anarcha-feminist
Jane Ellen Harrison United Kingdom (1850–1928) Feminist
Laurence Housman United Kingdom (1865–1959) Socialist feminist
Louisa Hubbard United Kingdom (1836–1906) Feminist
Grace Kimmins United Kingdom (1871–1954) Feminist
Anna Kingsford United Kingdom (1846–1888) Ecofeminist
Anna Leonowens United Kingdom India (1831–1915) Feminist
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll United Kingdom (1848–1939) Feminist, suffragette
Margaret Bright Lucas United Kingdom (1818–1890) Feminist, suffragette
Christian Maclagan United Kingdom (1811–1901) Feminist
Kitty Marion United Kingdom (1871–1944) Socialist feminist, suffragette
Harriet Martineau United Kingdom (1802–1876) Feminist
Eleanor Marx United Kingdom (1855–1898) Socialist feminist
Helen Priscilla McLaren United Kingdom (1851–1934) Feminist
Harriet Taylor Mill United Kingdom (1807–1858) Feminist
John Stuart Mill United Kingdom (1806–1873) Feminist
Hannah Mitchell United Kingdom (1872–1956) Socialist feminist, suffragette
Flora Murray United Kingdom (1869–1923) Feminist, suffragette
Emmeline Pankhurst United Kingdom (1858–1928) Feminist, suffragette
Eleanor Rathbone United Kingdom (1872–1946) Feminist
Dorothy Richardson United Kingdom (1873–1957) Feminist
Edith Rigby United Kingdom (1872–1948) Feminist, suffragette
Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff United Kingdom (1814–1897) Feminist
Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick United Kingdom (1845–1936) Feminist
Dame Ethel Mary Smyth United Kingdom (1858–1944) Feminist, suffragette
Helena Swanwick United Kingdom (1864–1939) Feminist, suffragette
Frances Swiney United Kingdom (1847–1922) Feminist, suffragette
Sybil Thomas, Viscountess Rhondda United Kingdom (1857–1941) Feminist, suffragette
Beatrice Webb United Kingdom (1858–1943) Socialist feminist
Charlotte Wilson United Kingdom (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 United Kingdom (1882–1981) Feminist, suffragette
Joan Beauchamp United Kingdom (1890–1964) Feminist, suffragette
Kay Beauchamp United Kingdom (1899–1992) Feminist
Helen Bentwich United Kingdom (1892–1972) Feminist
Rosa May Billinghurst United Kingdom (1875–1953) Feminist, suffragette
Teresa Billington-Greig United Kingdom (1877–1964) Feminist, suffragette
Elsie Bowerman United Kingdom (1889–1973) Feminist, suffragette
Katherine Burdekin United Kingdom (1896–1963) Feminist
Enid Charles United Kingdom (1894–1972) Radical feminist
Jill Craigie United Kingdom (1911–1999) Socialist feminist
Norah Elam United Kingdom Republic of Ireland (1878–1961) Radical feminist, suffragette
Frances Farrer United Kingdom (1895–1977) Feminist
Jane Goodall United Kingdom (b. 1934) Feminist
Charlotte Haldane United Kingdom (1894–1969) Feminist
Caroline Haslett United Kingdom (1895–1957) Feminist
Edith How-Martyn United Kingdom (1875–1954) Feminist, suffragette
Claudia Jones Trinidad and Tobago United Kingdom (1915–1964) Feminist, suffragette
Annie Kenney United Kingdom (1879–1953) Feminist, suffragette
Mina Loy United Kingdom (1882–1966) Feminist
Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda United Kingdom (1883–1958) Feminist, suffragette
Dora Marsden United Kingdom (1882–1960) Feminist
Elizabeth Holloway Marston United Kingdom (1893–1993) Feminist
Helena Normanton United Kingdom (1882–1957) Feminist
Adela Pankhurst United Kingdom (1885–1961) Feminist
Christabel Pankhurst United Kingdom (1880–1958) Feminist, suffragette
Sylvia Pankhurst United Kingdom (1882–1960) Feminist, suffragette
Frances Parker United Kingdom (1875–1924) Feminist
Erin Pizzey United Kingdom (b. 1939) Second-wave feminist
Marion Phillips United Kingdom (1881–1932) Feminist, suffragette
Claire Rayner United Kingdom (1931–2010) Feminist
Mary Richardson United Kingdom (1889–1961) Feminist, suffragette
Hilary Rose (sociologist) United Kingdom (b. 1935) Feminist
Agnes Maude Royden United Kingdom (1876–1956) Feminist, suffragette
Dora Russell United Kingdom (1894–1986) Feminist
Flora Sandes United Kingdom (1876–1956) Feminist (Sgt. Major Serbian Army)
Baroness Seear United Kingdom (1913–1997) Feminist
Kate Soper United Kingdom (b. 1943) Feminist
Jo Spence United Kingdom (1934–1992) Feminist
Marie Stopes United Kingdom (1880–1958) Feminist
Mary Stott United Kingdom (1907–2002) Feminist
Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill United Kingdom (1901–1980) Feminist
Mavis Tate United Kingdom (1893–1947) Feminist
Winifred Todhunter United Kingdom (1877–1961) Feminist
Jill Tweedie United Kingdom (1936–1993) Feminist
Harriet Shaw Weaver United Kingdom (1876–1961) Feminist, suffragette
Nesta Helen Webster United Kingdom (1876–1960) Feminist
Audrey Wise United Kingdom (1935–2000) Feminist
Virginia Woolf United Kingdom (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 United Kingdom (b. 1945) Feminist
Haleh Afshar United Kingdom (b. 1944) Muslim feminist
Melissa Benn United Kingdom (b. 1957) Third-wave feminist
Julie Bindel United Kingdom (b. 1962) Anti-prostitution feminist, anti-pornography feminist
Rosie Boycott United Kingdom (b. 1951) Feminist
Louise Burfitt-Dons United Kingdom (b. 1953) Conservative Feminist
Beatrix Campbell United Kingdom (b. 1947) Second-wave feminist
Angela Carter United Kingdom (1940–1992) Socialist feminist
Mary Clark-Glass United Kingdom (b. 20th century) Feminist
Rosalind Coward United Kingdom (b. 1952) Feminist
Gail Dines United Kingdom (b. c. 1958) anti-pornography feminist
Carol Ann Duffy United Kingdom (b. 1955) Feminist
Fadia Faqir Jordan United Kingdom (b. 1956) Feminist
Juliette Fretté United Kingdom (b. 1983) Sex-positive feminist
Lindsey German United Kingdom (b. 1951) Feminist
Lucy Goodison United Kingdom (b. c. 1940s) Feminist
Daphne Hampson United Kingdom (b. 1944) Feminist
Gillian Howie United Kingdom (1955–2013) Feminist
Stevi Jackson United Kingdom b. 20th century Material feminist
Claire Johnston United Kingdom (1940–1987) Feminist
John Lennon United Kingdom (1940–1980) Feminist
Ellie Levenson United Kingdom (b. 1978) Feminist
Sara Maitland United Kingdom (b. 1950) Feminist
Angela Mason United Kingdom (b. 1944) Second-wave feminist
Angela McRobbie United Kingdom (b. 1951) Feminist
Juliet Mitchell United Kingdom (b. 1940) Socialist feminist
Tracey Moberly United Kingdom (b. 1964) Feminist
Maxine Molyneux United Kingdom (b. 1948) Feminist
Caitlin Moran United Kingdom (b. 1975) Feminist
Laura Mulvey United Kingdom (b. 1941) Feminist
Sally Rowena Munt United Kingdom b. 20th century Feminist
Jenni Murray United Kingdom (b. 1950) Feminist
Ann Oakley United Kingdom (b. 1944) Second-wave feminist
Carole Pateman United Kingdom (b. 1940) Feminist
Sheila Rowbotham United Kingdom (b. 1943) Second-wave feminist
Jacqueline Rose United Kingdom (b. 1949) Feminist
Gita Sahgal United Kingdom India (b. 1956/57) Feminist
Carol Smart United Kingdom b. 20th century Feminist
Joan Smith United Kingdom (b. 1953) Third-wave feminist
Kate Smurthwaite United Kingdom (b. 1975) Feminist
Patrick Stewart United Kingdom (b. 1940) Socialist feminist
Lucy Suchman United Kingdom b. 20th century Third-wave feminist, cyberfeminist
Helen Sworn United Kingdom b. 20th century Anti-prostitution feminist
Hilary Wainwright United Kingdom (b. 1949) Second-wave feminist, socialist feminist
Natasha Walter United Kingdom (b. 1967) Third-wave feminist
Valerie Wise United Kingdom (b. 1955) Feminist