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Lauren Bacall, American film and stage actress and model
 
Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1837, (1932). Artist: Rosalind Thornycroft
 
Florence Nightingale, British nurse and hospital reformer, c1836 (1956). Artist: William White
 
Marie Curie, Polish-born French physicist, 1917
 
Nurses rest room, Montague Hospital, Mexborough, South Yorkshire, 1968. Artist: Michael Walters
 
Florence Nightingale, English nurse and hospital reformer, 1854
 
Snow, Moon and Flowers c1812. Artist: Katsukawa Shunsen
 
Sholes Type Writer 1872
 
Women making butter, 1808. Artist: William Henry Pyne
 
Josephine Baker, American-born entertainer and singer, c1932
 
Ironing room in a laundry, 1867
 
A seated lady has her hair curled and dressed to a towering height, c1770
 
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), German-American political scientist, c1963
 
Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958), British chemist
 
The Nurses Window (detail), Church of St Bartholomew the Less, London. Artist: Bill Forbes
 
Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Ireland, c1588. Artist: George Gower
 
Queen Elizabeth II (b1926) flying back from Barbados on Concorde, 1977
 
Virginia Woolf, English novelist, essayist and critic, early 20th century
 
George Sand, French novelist and early feminist, c1845-1876
 
Frances Trollope, 19th century English novelist
 
Anita Loos (1888-1981), American screenwriter, playwright and author, early 20th century
 
George Eliot as a young woman, c1840
 
Anne Frank (1929-1945)
 
George Eliot, English novelist, 19th century. Artist: G Sidney Hunt
 
Charlotte Bronte, English novelist, 1850.Artist: George Richmond
 
Emmeline Pankhurst arrested by Superintendent Rolfe outside Buckingham Palace, London, May 1914
 
Emmeline Pankhurst, c1909
 
Portrait of a woman, 1898.Artist: Aubrey Beardsley
 
Flora 1886 (1934). Creator: Unknown
 
Virgin and Child with St Anne (detail), 1502-1516. Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
 
The Birth of Venus (detail), c1485. Artist: Sandro Botticelli
 
Venus de Milo, c130-120 BC. Artist: Alexandros of Antioch
 
Drawing for Aphrodite by Pierre Louys, 1896. Artist: Antoine Calbet
 
Virgin of Montserrat, Catalonia, Spain
 
The Toilet of Venus ('The Rokeby Venus'), 1647-1651. Creator: Diego Velasquez
 
Natajara, the Hindu Lord of the Dance, a depiction of Lord Shiva as the cosmic dancer, Indian. Artist: Werner Forman
 
Women police officers, c1910s
 
Mamie Eisenhower with the US Army's first women generals, 15th June 1970
 
Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992), German born actress, c1930
 
Anne Bonny, c1698, Irish Pirate.Artist: Karen Humpage
 
Evelyn D'Alroy, actress, 1911-1912
 
Marilyn Monroe, American film actress, in How to Marry a Millionaire, c1953
 
Women of Britain Come into the Factories c1940
 
French WWI postcard, 1914-1918
 
Salomé 1870. Artist: Henri Alexandre Georges Regnault
 
Will you follow me, men? c61 AD, (1905).Artist: A S Forrest
 
Florence Austral (1894-1968), Australian soprano
 
Edith Cavell with her pet dogs, c1915
 
Stay young, playing golf in Germany, railway poster, c1930
 
Elizabeth Fry, British prison and social reformer, c1798-1800 (1956)
 
Ingrid Bergman, Swedish film actress
 
Mae West (1893-1980), American actress, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol