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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 participation in a significant event, in the fields of art, literature, business, industry, science, culture, sport, education, politics, war, philanthropy, medicine and a range of other topics.
Notable women from Cornwall are also listed in the article
List of people from Cornwall .
A
B
Morwenna Banks , actor
Antonia Barber , writer of fiction
Frances Basset , 2nd Baroness Basset
Maria Branwell , mother of English writers
Emily Brontë ,
Anne Brontë and
Charlotte Brontë
Michaela Breeze , Commonwealth champion weightlifter
Dame
Alida Brittain , harpist
[6]
Mary Bryant , famous prisoner who escaped Australian penal colony
Katharine Burdekin , novelist, feminist, sister of
Rowena Cade
C
Rowena Cade , creator, builder and founder of the Minack Theatre
Elizabeth Carne , scientist and banker
Vera Carne , First World War Women's Land Army
[7]
[8]
Helena Charles , Cornish nationalist
Evelyn Clements , munitions worker
[9]
Ithell Colquhoun , artist and writer
Myrna Combellack , researcher and translator of
Beunans Meriasek
Judith Cook , journalist and campaigner
Selina Cooper , suffragist
Margaret Ann Courtney , folklorist and poet
D
F
G
H
Melissa Hardie-Budden , writer, founder of the Hypatia Trust, philanthropist
[15]
[16]
Faith Harris , sailor, secretary to Railway Purchasing Mission
[17]
Barbara Hepworth , sculptor and artist
Alice Hext , gardener and philanthropist
Corona Hicks , women's rights campaigner
[18]
Rose Hilton , artist
Emily Hobhouse , peace activist and human rights campaigner
Salome Hocking , novelist
[19]
Barbara Hosking , civil servant and broadcaster
I
Iseult , figure in Arthurian legend
J
K
L
Mary Lang , writer, photographer, sailor, diarist
[22]
[23]
[24]
Cassandra Latham , white witch
Janet Leach , artist
Katharine Lee (
Kitty Lee Jenner ; 1853–1936), writer
[25]
Margaret Lidgey , bal captain, First World War mine manager
[26]
[27]
Alice de Lisle , Lord of
Alverton , founder of Penzance market
[28]
Moura Lympany , musician, concert pianist
M
Margo Maeckelberghe , artist
Jessica Mann , novelist and journalist
Charlotte Mary Matheson , writer
Margaret Mellis , St Ives school artist
Chesten Marchant ,
last monoglot Cornish-speaker (died 1676)
Anna Maria Murphy , writer, playwright, poet, storyteller
[29]
[30]
Sherryl Murray , MP for South East Cornwall
N
P
Gertrude Parsons , novelist
Cassie Patten , British Olympic swimmer
Susan Penhaligon , actor
Dolly Pentreath , last Cornish speaker according to tradition
Thomasine, Lady Percival , benefactress and founder of a school
Annie Phillips , autograph collector
[31]
Elizabeth Philp , singer, music educator and composer
Rosamunde Pilcher , novelist
Litz Pisk , movement pioneer and instructor
Beatrice Pole-Carew , First World War host for convalescent soldiers
[32]
[33] (portrait)
[34]
Margaret Steuart Pollard (Peggy), Cornish language poet
Agnes Prest , Protestant martyr
Q
R
S
T
Mary Ann Tocker , early radical who exposed corruption in the Stannary Courts, 1818
Sheila Tracy , writer, broadcaster, musician, trombonist, singer
Enys Tregarthen , children's writer
Sharon Tregenza , writer, novelist
Kate Tremayne , writer, novelist
V
W
Serena Wadham , feminist activist and photographer
[38]
[39]
Frances Wall , professor of applied mineralogy, first female Head of
Camborne School of Mines ,
University of Exeter
[40]
Mary Wesley , writer, novelist
Mary Williams (nurse) , First World War
Voluntary Aid Detachment hospital organiser
[41]
Venetia Williams , racehorse trainer
Mary Wolverston aka Lady Killigrew, alleged pirate
Brenda Wootton , Cornish poet and singer
Lilian Wyles , First female police detective in Scotland Yard
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