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Welcome to Women’s London

About the Author

How to Use This Book

The Woman Who Put London on the Map

Round and Blue: Plaques in London

A Timeline of British Female Firsts

Central London Map

Women’s London on Foot

Wonderful Women of Whitechapel

Bonnets and Banners: The Salvation Army Women’s Social Work

In the Footsteps of Henrietta Barnett

Mothers to Militants: Migrant Women

Battling Belles of Bow: In the Footsteps of Sylvia Pankhurst

A Statue for Sylvia

Trade Unions

Mother of World Peace

Suffrage, Science and the Stage: Covent Garden and the LSE

Offspring of The Old Vic

Millicent Fawcett and The Women’s Library

Caring, Campaigning, Brilliant, Bohemian: Bloomsbury Women

In the Footsteps of Virginia Woolf

A Marylebone Miscellany

Cottages to Cadets, Gardens to Green Belt: The Legacy of Octavia Hill

Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s St James’s

Ladies in the Labs: Scientific Women

Royal Ladies

Performers to Reformers: Women at the Royal Albert Hall

Warring, Worthy, Mothers and Martyrs: Women of Westminster

Women in the Palace of Westminster

New Dawn

Ballet, Botany, Soldiers and the Stage: Curious Chelsea

Fabulous Fashion

Women at War

Artists and Authors in Abundance: Hampstead

Breaking the Glass Ceiling: The City

Women in the Frame

The Bluestockings

Women on a Pedestal

Remembering Ada

London’s Female Streetscape

In the Footsteps of Mary Wollstonecraft

Lambeth Lives

Spirit of Soho

Holloway Prison

In the Footsteps of Angela Burdett-Coutts

Literary Ladies

Queen of Crime

Read and View Women’s London

Medical Ladies

The Lady with the Lamp

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Where They Lived

Where They Lie

Further Afield

Culture and Campaigns

Cheers!

Picture Credits

Acknowledgements

32 Cornhill, the Brontës

Anna Pavlova, Victoria Palace Theatre

WSPU postcard album, c. 1911

Mary Seacole, Morley mosaic

Bow Quarter