LMWM was dangerously ill with smallpox.

Sarah Robinson (later SS ) contracted a severe case of smallpox, which left her with noticeable scarring.

MS contracted smallpox while visiting Paris; but she survived.

She survived a bout of smallpox in her youth which left her somewhat marked.

At the age of sixteen CB survived an attack of smallpox, but the year after that she fell seriously ill again (having just been practising severe religious abstinence). She was ill for seven years, with all kinds of symptoms including giddiness, spots on the skin, stomach pains, failure of appetite, shaking fits, and, she says, her bones moving out of their proper places. Her account of the remedies used on her is painfully vivid: bitter potions, sweats, vomits, bleeding, and Spanish flies, as well as vinegar on her blisters. She recovered immediately when she vowed to become a nun, and found that, for instance, her previously rigid fingers were now pliable. She therefore attributed her cure to a miracle, and thought all I could do for God too little. It does not appear that she was ever ill again, unless perhaps trivially, until shortly before her death.

LAC , along with her daughter Margaret, was ill with smallpox during her husband's last illness, and they were both unable to visit him. Although she survived the illness, it permanently scarred her face.

Unspecified illnesses coming one after another kept her housebound for years. Passages in her poems suggest that she was disabled in some way and possibly disfigured (by, for instance, smallpox).

AC suffered a severe fever before the age of twelve, which seems to have brought on a tendency to excruciating headaches. These (probably migraine) recurred throughout her life, so often as to be almost permanent. Her all-round health, too, was fragile, and the medical treatments she underwent for her headaches sound in themselves enough to ensure ill-health. She went down with smallpox shortly after her only child died of it.

QEI suffered an attack of smallpox which she barely survived. The question of the succession loomed, and Burghley actually wrote a memo instructing the Privy Council , in the event of her death, to appoint the next monarch.

Soon after the women's imprisonment they were so badly stung by mosquitoes while asleep at night that their faces became as unrecognisably swollen as if they had smallpox. Their health suffered severely from other factors, such as heat and hunger-strikes, and each one was several times near death.

OG survived a bout of smallpox as a child, and was left deeply scarred.

Christian was still a child when she went blind, probably as a result of the smallpox attack which scarred her badly. When she was in her twenties or thirties, the suggestion was made that she should apply for admission to the Asylum for the Blind at Edinburgh, and she got so far as to write a sketch of her life apparently designed for selectors. It is not clear whether or not she actually applied; in any event, she never entered the Asylum. Though as a young woman she could walk outdoors unaided, later in life (still in her forties) she had difficulty walking.

MG contracted smallpox, but survived.

She was left (in her own words) totally disfigured, with some damage to her left eye, by an attack of smallpox when she was four years old, of which a younger brother died..

At some time before she was married, Frances Thynne suffered from smallpox, which left her a little marked.

After her husband's death she suffered an attack of smallpox.

On the day her marriage contract with John Hutchinson was signed, Lucy Apsley went down with smallpox. She lost her looks at least temporarily, but kept her suitor.

ML 's childbirth experiences were not propitious. Her daughter was delivered by forceps (at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Maternity Hospital in London, UK) after a 36-hour labour, and the delivery cracked the baby's collar-bone—a not unusual occurrence, ML was assured. The bone healed within ten days. Jocelyn lived through a greater danger at two months, when her smallpox and yellow fever injections, for Africa, were administered too close together and in the wrong order. The baby went into convulsions, while the doctor concerned (who was angry with Laurence for insisting on continuing to breast-feed while her daughter was severely ill in hospital) ascribed the convulsions to either a congenital tendency or else meningitis. Two years later another doctor admitted that the first had been at fault. When Laurence got pregnant in Ghana a pregnancy test falsely registered negative, netting her a diagnosis of neurotic, and after that she had two false labours before managing a swift natural childbirth, assisted by a reassuring black midwife. A white nursing sister spoiled the experience slightly by forcing her to eat while in labour although she said she would throw up, which she duly did.

At some time during her youth she suffered from a bout of smallpox which left her badly marked.

When they parted she fell gravely ill. Possibly this was the occasion in her youth when she had smallpox. This left her badly marked, though she said later that she had little beauty to spoil.