Really great primer! One woman I'd add to your list is the composer and suffragette Ethel Smyth. The first two volumes of her memoirs are available on the internet archive and well worth a read.
(At the moment I'm writing fanfic of a sort about Ethel Smyth, or at least about Hilda Tablet, a character who was partially inspired by her. It's not set in the nineteenth century, though...)
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Date: 2010-05-11 10:42 am (UTC)(At the moment I'm writing fanfic of a sort about Ethel Smyth, or at least about Hilda Tablet, a character who was partially inspired by her. It's not set in the nineteenth century, though...)