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Beatrix Potter1889: English writer (Helen) Beatrix Potter (1866 - 1943). (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Mary Shelleycirca 1830: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851) the English novelist and second wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley, famous for her novel Frankenstein which was published in 1818
Vita Sackville-Westcirca 1940: Vita Sackville West (Victoria Mary Nicolson, 1892-1962), an English novelist who was the model for Virginia Woolfs Orlando. She married the diplomat Harold Nicolson in 1913
Louisa May Alcottcirca 1870: US writer Louisa May Alcott, (1832 - 1888), born in Philadelphia. Her books include Little Women (1868), which drew on her own experiences. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Prussian Fishwifecirca 1800: A fisherwoman with her child in East Frisia. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Country Maidencirca 1820: A farm girl with a sheaf of corn at harvest time. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Genie De la Gardecirca 1890: A female soldier of the French Army. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Novel Innovator25th October 1929: English novelist, critic and essayist, Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941), Woolf is regarded as one of the great modern innovators of the novel. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Nurse Readingcirca 1890: A nurse of the Victorian period in uniform reading a book. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Female Bonzecirca 1800: A female bonze, or Buddhist monk, from China. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Welsh Farm Girlscirca 1895: Welsh hay workers in national clothes, taking a rest from work. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Madam Curiecirca 1926: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934) the Polish scientist and Nobel prizewinner. (Photo by Henri Manuel/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)