Physics researcher, activist for the higher education of women, Principal of Newnham College of the University of Cambridge, and a leading figure in the Society for Psychical Research.
English children’s writer whose books have been among the world’s best-sellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies.
English stage actor and a protégé of Frederic Leighton, for whom she modelled for several of his paintings.
Born Dorothy Egerton (1565–1639), also known as Dorothy Brereton, Lady of the Manor of Worsley, was a coal owner and benefactor of Ellenbrook Chapel near her home in Worsley, Lancashire.
Woman arrested on suspicion of witchcraft in Rothenburg in 1652, who despite being tortured, vigorously protested her innocence.
Eldest illegitimate daughter of Sir Thomas Wentworth of Bretton Hall near Wakefield in Yorkshire.
Pivotal figure in the great Scottish witchcraft panic of 1597.
Biography of socialite Gertrude Vernon, Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, who gained prestige and notoriety from her portrait by artist John Singer Sargent.
Female sorcerer who appears in the Old Testament (1 Samuel 28:3–25).
Sculptor born in 1862 Leigh, Lancashire, where her father, James Pownall, was a silk manufacturer.
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