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List of Women in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly

This is a list of notable women, living and dead, from Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly in the United Kingdom. Notability is based on achievements that have had a verifiable impact or public output or taken part in a significant event, in the fields of art, literature, business, industry, science, culture, sport, education, politics, philanthropy, medicine and a range of other topics. To be included in this list the woman must fulfil at least one of the following criteria:

• had an impact on an aspect of society, culture or public life in Cornwall and/or the Isles of Scilly through pioneering work or actions, e.g. through writing books, campaigning, scientific discovery, sporting achievement, significant historical actions that made a difference to others e.g. during wartime
• be Cornish or Scillonian (by birth or self-identity) and had an impact on society, culture or public life elsewhere through pioneering work or actions

The list of women is arranged in alphabetical order by surname if known. Links are to wiki articles where they exist. This list is based on existing biographies of women on the English-language Wikipedia and on women represented in the Hypatia Trust's Elizabeth Treffry Collection on Women in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, as well as other sources of information such as news stories, archives, museums and publications.

This list is building and supports a project to contribute biographies of women to Wikipedia in order to address its gender imbalance.

A

Constance Agar-Robartes, First World War nurse

B

Morwenna Banks, actor

Antonia Barber, writer of fiction

Frances Basset, 2nd Baroness Basset

Vanessa Beeman, Grand Bard of the Gorsedh Kernow

Lamorna Birch, artist

Sheila Bird (author), writer of books on Cornwall

Janie Bolitho, writer, novelist

Maria Branwell, mother of British writers Emily Brontë, Anne Brontë and Charlotte Brontë

Mary Bryant, famous prisoner who escaped Australian penal colony

C

Elizabeth Carne, scientist and banker

Vera Carne, Women's Land Army

Edith Cavell Monument, First World War nurse

Evelyn Clements, munitionette

Myrna Combellack, researcher and translator of Beunans Meriasek

Judith Cook, journalist and campaigner

Selina Cooper, suffragist

Margaret Ann Courtney, folklorist and poet

D

Phyllis Doherty, First World War commandant

Anne Dowriche, poet

Daphne du Maurier, novelist and writer

F

Elizabeth Forbes, artist and storyteller

Caroline Fox, writer

G

Susan Elizabeth Gay, writer

Julia Goldsworthy, politician

Queen Gwendoline, medieval legendary figure

H

Melissa Hardie-Budden, writer, founder of the Hypatia Trust, philanthropist

Faith Harris, sailor

Corona Hicks, women's rights campaigner

Salome Hocking, novelist

Barbara Hepworth, sculptor and artist

Rose Hilton, artist

Emily Hobhouse, peace activist and human rights campaigner

I

Iseult, figure in Arthurian legend

J

F. Tennyson Jesse, writer

K

Ann Kelley, writer and photographer

Marguerite Kestleoot, Belgian refugee

Laura Knight, artist

L

Mary Lang, writer, photographer, sailor, diarist

Cassandra Latham, white witch

Janet Leach, artist

Margaret Lidgey, mine manager

Alice de Lisle, Lord of Alverton, founder of Penzance market

M

Jessica Mann, novelist and journalist

Charlotte Mary Matheson, writer

Margaret Mellis, St Ives school artist

Anna Maria Murphy, playwright and writer

N

Thandie Newton, actor

P

Gertrude Parsons, novelist

Sheila Pearse, artist

Susan Penhaligon, actor

Dolly Pentreath, last monoglot Cornish speaker

Annie Phillips, autograph collector

Rosamunde Pilcher, novelist

Litz Pisk, movement pioneer and instructor

Beatrice Pole-Carew, First World War host for convalescent soldiers

Agnes Prest, protestant martyr

R

Flora Jane Reynolds, peace activist, founder and President of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Cornwall branch)

Jean Rhys, writer

Mary Richards (prisoner), First World War prisoner of war

Edith Jane Rouncefield, First World War nurse

S

Angie Sage, writer, novelist

Sweet Saraya, professional wrestler

Kristin Scott Thomas, actor

Nicola Shaw, professional bodybuilder (original article deleted by unknown admin as 'non-notable')

Penelope Shuttle, poet

Emma Smith, writer

Emily Stackhouse, scientist

Margaret Steuart Pollard (Peggy), Cornish language poet

T

Joanna Thomas, professional bodybuilder

Sheila Tracy, writer, broadcaster, musician, trombonist, singer

Enys Tregarthen, children's writer

Sharon Tregenza, writer, novelist

Kate Tremayne, writer, novelist

W

Serena Wadham, feminist activist and photographer

Mary Wesley, writer, novelist

Mary Williams (nurse), First World War hospital organiser

Mary Wolverston aka Lady Killigrew, pirate

Brenda Wootton, Cornish poet and singer