Owner with her husband of a notorious molly house in 18th-century London.
Margaret Sibthorp
Editor of the "pioneering women's periodical" Shafts from 1892 until 1899.
Marion Wallace Dunlop
First suffragette to go on hunger strike, on 5 July 1909.
Mark Sheridan
English music-hall comedian and singer, whose recording popularised the song "I do like to be beside the Seaside".
Married Women’s Property Act 1870
Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that allowed married women to be the legal owners of money they earned and to inherit property.
Martha Bradley
18th-century English cook, author of The British Housewife.
Mary Bateman
Poisoner and thief whose most audacious hoax was The Prophet Hen of Leeds.
Mary Bolles
17th-century Yorkshire woman uniquely created a baronetess in her own right.
Mary Eales
18th-century writer on cookery and confectionery, author of Mrs Mary Eales's Receipts (1718)
Mary Hobry
French Catholic midwife burnt at the stake in 1688 in London for the murder of her abusive husband.