Julia Stephen was known for her beauty, melancholy, and charitable good works. VW 's biographer Hermione Lee remarks that she seems to have fully endorsed the Victorian models for female behaviour. Like her husband, she had a sombre mien, and with him she shared a view of life as work. She had a Victorian devotion to the ill and poor, and she was especially passionate about nursing. (She published an essay on it—Notes from Sick Rooms—in 1883.) In June 1889 she was a signatory (one of 103) to Mary Augusta Ward's An Appeal Against Female Suffrage in Nineteenth Century.

ER 's political commitment to feminism is evident throughout her plays, novels, travel writing, and essays, in which she addresses issues ranging from women's suffrage to the rest cure and white slave trade. Through much of her writing career (which spanned a decade of the nineteenth century and four decades of the twentieth) she insisted on maintaining anonymity despite pressure from her publishers to capitalize on her fame as an actress.

Her family were British members of prosperous, successful Jewry. In 1884 D'Israeli had only been dead four years and tolerance was very much the order of the day. So that anti-semitism was at a very low ebb. It was also an age of prosperity, security and progress. A golden age. At least some of her relations were Orthodox , but Gladys Henrietta rejected Orthodoxy for herself because she hated the prescribed wig which one of her married aunts wore over her shaved head. When, years later, she discovered the movement for women's suffrage, she straight away remembered the image of this aunt. In 1923, largely influenced by the pacifism of the Rev. Dick Sheppard , Schütze became a convert to the Church of England . As the persecution of European Jews escalated during the 1930s, however, she rediscovered her Jewish identity as something which, in solidarity, she needed to assert.

Writing from the beginning of the twentieth century, CSJ produced novels, biography, and love-journals, as well as her work for the stage, for which she wrote translations, adaptations, and original plays. She is best remembered for the suffrage play How the Vote Was Won, co-written with Cicely Hamilton .

ABB is remembered as the first woman to be ordained in the United States. Though she published only ten works, she wrote extensively throughout her life and produced numerous speeches and essays. She took a keen interest in science and metaphysics, and her writing aims to secure a place for faith within emerging evolutionary and physics theories. The majority of her published works were written in response to the male thinkers of her time. Throughout her life ABB held significant roles within the suffrage community and devoted much of her literary career to woman's rights. She was a firm believer that equal opportunity, especially in education, would allow women to flourish in society.

An unlikely feminist in view of her wealthy and conservative background, JB was a prominent member of the Langham Place group, who established, edited, and contributed to the Englishwoman's Review during the second half of the nineteenth century. Aside from one book-length work, all of her writings were essays and articles printed in various journals and collections. Her writings deal with topics relating to women's rights, particularly the suffrage movement and women's employment.

JWH , nineteenth-century American woman of letters, is chiefly remembered for having composed The Battle-Hymn of the Republic, and for her highly popular lecture tours. She also published poetry, travel writings, journalism including powerful support for women's suffrage and other kinds of rights, biography, and memoirs.

HT wrote essays on suffrage and other feminist issues in the latter part of the nineteenth century. She also edited several volumes of work by others, often providing biographical sketches and introductions.

Christina Rossetti fondly recalled having had a courteous tilt in the strong-minded woman lists, referring to the unsuccessful overture AW made to her, following the publication in pamphlet of Parliamentary Franchise for Women Ratepayers in 1878, to support the suffrage cause.

Henrietta's mother, Maria Henrietta Müller , was of English descent, though she appears to have been born, like her children, in Valparaiso. Mrs. Müller was committed, along with both her daughters, to the cause of feminism. In 1880 she joined the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage , and from then onwards became increasingly involved with feminist agitation, giving her support to the Society for Promoting the Employment of Women , the Ladies' National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts, and the Central National Society for Women's Suffrage , among others. Henrietta accorded a great deal of respect to her mother, who, she said, sympathises with me very greatly in my efforts and has always done what she could to encourage a spirit of freedom and independence in her daughters; she is a woman of remarkable originality of character.

Anna Kingsford , described by W. T. Stead as one of the most interesting and fascinating of the women of the Victorian era, was a successful physician, religious leader, and woman of letters, with a remarkable breadth of achievement in medicine, the arts, and religion. She wrote often controversially on a wide range of topics, including anti-vivisection, vegetarianism, and women's suffrage; several of her works reflect her religious beliefs. A compelling writer and charismatic speaker, AK was prolific at a young age, published her first novel in her teens, and became editor of a progressive journal, The Lady's Own Paper. She was President of the Theosophical Society , founded the Hermetic Society , and conducted lecture tours with both religious and scientific content. She remains a popular figure in several alternative religious movements, though her broader social contributions are largely forgotten.

With regard to the suffrage cause, MCwas loosely involved with the Women's Social and Political Union in 1907-8 and in the latter year shared a cab with Emmeline Pankhurst at the great WSPU procession of 21 June (though, apparently through a slip by Sylvia Pankhurst , her presence in the procession was not recorded). Within about seven weeks she entered into conflict with the union, and she situates herself in her writings precisely as a non-militant suffragist (that is, not a supporter of direct action), though she fully understood and largely sympathised with the motives and the causes of militancy. MC 's own weapon was words, and she was prepared to use strong language about the implications of lacking the vote, though her preference for leaving every door open to debate led her into conflict with the WSPU . The friend who wrote to the Times about her after her death was still keen to preserve the distance between her and the militants. This friend mentioned Caird's involvement in the animal protection movement, and said she was single-minded, prominent and effective among the pioneer champions of the woman's movement, but declined to join the militant section.

Jane Hume Clapperton wrote several works of social theory in the late nineteenth century that combined her feminist ethos with her concern for the social problems facing contemporary England. She advanced a philosophy of social reform that was based on the principles of evolutionary theory and drew substantially on the theory of evolutionary eugenics, yet maintained a radical critique of contemporary sexual relations and advanced the principles of communal living and municipal socialism. In addition to the two lengthy books of social theory for which she is best known, she wrote at least two pamphlets and published occasional articles in mainstream and feminist journals. She also penned a utopiannovel in which her theories of communal living are put into fictional practice.JHC was a spirited defender of the suffrage cause and regarded education—particularly sex education—as pivotal to the political, economic, and legal advancement of women.

CD , who wrote and published during almost sixty years of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, began with romantic novels, then allowed her already existent interest in political issues to percolate into her fiction. From the time of the suffrage struggle she became an editor, a prolific journalist, and a pamphleteer. Some of her poetry reached print when she was in her nineties. Despite her great importance to the suffrage struggle and to Irish and other left-wing politics of her several generations, her diaries and letters remain unpublished.

Since her mother's relationships with men tended to be brief, EC grew up surrounded by women. From an early age she associated women with strength and courage, and would admonish her brother for his childhood fears by saying, Come on Teddy, be a woman. Although she was exposed to feminist ideas early in life, she did not become active in the suffrage movement until after she met playwright Christopher St John (Christabel Marshall). The two women lived together in a relationship defined by St John as lesbian for almost fifty years.

CS was involved in the campaign for women's suffrage and the Rational Dress Society , which she ran in conjunction with Constance Wilde .

SB 's fiction and travel-writing, and also her poetry and diaries, are rich in visual impact and imaginative oddity. She is an acute observer of material and emotional reality of the earlier twentieth century, into which she regularly introduces an element of the fantastical. Though a serious political activist (about suffrage and prostitution), she is a very funny writer. She has no truck with what she calls the English craving for cold moderation in words.