C

Cable, Mildred (Alice Mildred)
British missionary and traveller, The Gobi Desert (1942).
(b. 1878, Guildford, Surrey – d. 1952)

Caccia, Francesca
Italian painter, her use of a bird emblem distinguished her work from that of her father Guglielmo.
(b. 1607 – d. 1627)

Caccia, Orsola Maddalena
Italian flower painter, daughter of Guglielmo Caccia, three of her works survive.
(fl. 1627 – 1666)

Caccini, Francesca
Italian vocalist, musician, and operatic composer, La liberazione di Ruggiero (1625).
(b. 1587 – d. 1640)

Caccini, Settimia
Italian vocalist, she was the sister of Francesca, and sang the role of Venus at the premiere of Monteverdi’s Arianna (1608).
(b. c1591 – d. 1638)

Caffi, Margarita
Italian flower painter
(fl. 1662 – 1700)

Caffyn, Kathleen Mannington
Irish novelist, A Yellow Aster (1894).
(b. 1855, Waterloo House, Tipperary, Ireland – d. Feb 6, 1926, Italy)

Cale y Torres de Quintero, Emilia
Spanish poet, dramatist and writer, author of Horas de Inspiracion (Hours of Inspiration) (1867) : Lazos rotos (Broken Bonds) (1883).
(b. 1837, La Coruna, Galicia – d. 1908, Madrid)

Calisher, Hortense
American novelist, The New Yorkers (1969) : On Keeping Women (1977).
(b. 1911, New York)

Calment, Jeanne Louise
French centenarian, lived 122 years.
(b. Feb 21, 1875, Arles, Provence – d. 1997)

Calvert, Elizabeth
English bookseller, arrested for selling the seditious work, Several Prodigies (1661).
(b. c1615 – d. 1675, London)

Cam, Helen Maud
British medieval historian, Liberties and Communities in Medieval England (1944).
(b. 1886, Abingdon, Oxfordshire – d. 1968)

Cambi, Prudenza
Italian painter, nun at convent of Santa Caterina di Siena, Florence.
(fl. c1550 – c1570)

Cambridge, Ada
Anglo-Australian novelist and autobiographer, My Guardian (1878) : Materfamilias (1898) : Thirty Years in Australia (1903).
(b. 1844, Wiggenhall St Germains, Norfolk – d. 1926)

Cameron, Agnes Deans
Canadian traveller and writer, The New North (1909).
(b. 1863 – d. 1912)

Cameron, Elizabeth Jane (Jane Duncan)
Scottish novelist, My Friend series 1959 – 1966.
(b. March 10, 1910, Dunbartonshire, Scotland – d. Oct 20, 1976)

Cameron, Julia Margaret
British portrait photographer, translator, and illustrator of Tennyson’s Idylls of the King (1875).
(b. 1815, Calcutta, India – d. 1879, Ceylon)

Cameron, Katherine
Scottish water colour flower painter, and etcher.
(b. Feb 26, 1874, Glasgow)

Campan, Jeanne Henriette Louise
French courtier, and memoirist, lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette.
(b. 1752, Paris – d. 1822)

Campbell, Beatrice Stella (Mrs Patrick Campbell)
British actress, The Second Mrs Tanquerary (1893), created Eliza Doolittle, the heroine of Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw.
(b. 1865, Kensington, London – d. 1940, Pau, France)

Campo Alange, Maria de los Reyes Lafitte y Perez del Pulgar, Condesa de
Spanish feminist and prose author, La mujer como mito y como ser humano (Woman as Myth and as Human Being) (1961) : Concepcion Arenal 1820 – 1873 (1973).
(b. 1902, Seville)

Cancellieri, Geronima dei
Italian nun, Dominican prioress of Corpus Christi, Venice 1413 – 1423.
(b. 1354 – d. March 10, 1431, Venice)

Cane, Lucy Mary
British VAD worker 1914 – 1917. Assist. director WRNS 1917 – 1919. CBE (1919).
(b. c1867 – d. April 23, 1926)

Cantofoli, Ginevra
Italian miniature painter
(b. c1635 – d. after 1669)

Cantoni, Caterina
Italian craftswoman and needlework portraitist
(fl. c1559, born Milan, Lombardy)

Cao
Chinese empress, second wife of emperor Renzong. Regent for her stepson Yinzong 1064 – 1067.
(b. c1015 – d. after 1067)

Cape St Vincent, Eloise Fanny Napier, Countess
British heiress, held the Portugese title of Cape St Vincent 1860 – 1915.
(b. 1822, Merchiston House, Hants – d. Aug 20, 1915)

Capet, Marie Gabrielle
French miniature painter
(b. 1761 – d. 1818)

Capmany Farnes, Maria Aurelia
Spanish novelist, dramatist and essayist, Un lloc entre els morts (A Place among the Dead) (1967) : Vitrines de Amsterdam (Showcases of Amsterdam) (1970).
(b. 1918, Barcelona – d. 1991, Barcelona)

Capomarzo, Luisa
Italian painter and nun
(b. c1590 – d. 1646)

Cappe, Catharine
British philanthropist, Observations on Charity Schools and Female Friendly Societies (1804).
(b. 1744, Craven, Yorkshire – d. 1821)

Carden, Lilian E.
British flower painter
(fl. c1890 – 1902)

Cardew, Martha Masters
British seascape and still-life painter
(b. 1801, India – d. 1883, Exeter, Devon, England)

Carl, Katharine Augusta
German portrait painter
(b. c1859 – d. 1933)

Carlevaris, Marianna
Italian pastel portrait painter
(fl. c1720 – c1740)

Carlini, Rosa
Italian dancer, partner of Giovanni Andrea Gallini, performed at the King’s Theatre, London.
(fl. c1750 – 1759)

Carlisle, Joan
English portrait painter
(b. c1606 – d. 1676)

Carlisle, Lucy Percy, Countess of
English political intriguer, member of the Protestant clique at court of Charles I. She was an ally of Lord Strafford until his downfall in 1641.
(b. 1599 – d. 1660)

Carlisle, Rosalind Frances Stanley, Countess of
British political and temperance reformer, president of the Women’s Liberal Federation 1906 – 1914.
(b. 1845 – d. 1921)

Carlotta Joaquina
Queen of Portugal 1816 – 1825, the wife (1785) of King Joao VI (1767 – 1826), she was the daughter of Charles IV, king of Spain, and his wife Maria Luisa of Parma.
(b. April 25, 1775, Madrid, Spain – d. Jan 7, 1830, Queluz)

Carlyle, Jane Welsh
British writer, wife of Thomas Carlyle.
(b. 1801 – d. 1866)

Carmichael, Rebekah
Scottish poet, Poems (1790).
(fl. 1790 – 1806)

Carnarvon, Elizabeth Alicia Maria Wyndham, Countess of
British courtier, lady-in-waiting to Princess Caroline, wife of the Prince Regent.
(b. 1752 – d. Feb 10, 1826)

Caroline of Ansbach
Queen of Great Britain 1727 – 1737, wife of George II, worked in partnership with the PM Sir Robert Walpole.
(b. 1683 – d. 1737)

Caroline of Brunswick
Queen of Great Britain 1820 – 1821, wife of George IV, from whom she seperated in 1806.
(b. 1768, Wolfenbuttel, Germany – d. 1821, Brandenburg House, Hammersmith, London)

Caroline Matilda
Queen of Denmark 1766 – 1772, wife of Christian VII, sister of George III. Divorced for adultery (1772) with Count Johann von Struensee.
(b. 1751 – d. 1775, Castle of Celle, Brunswick)

Caro Mallen de Soto, Ana
Spanish poet and dramatist, author of Valor, agravio y mujer (Valor, Insult and Woman) (1653) : El Conde de Partinuples.
(b. c1569 – d. after 1645)

Carrington, Patty
British flower painter
(fl. c1875 – 1887)

Carpenter, Margaret
British portrait painter
(b. 1793, Salisbury, Wiltshire – d. 1872)

Carpenter, Mary
British educator and penologist, Juvenile Delinquents, their Condition and Treatment (1853).
(b. 1807, Exeter, Devon – d. 1877)

Carr, Frances see Essex, Countess of

Carrington, Dora
British painter, friend of Lytton Strachey.
(b. 1893 – d. 1932)

Cartagena, Teresa de
Spanish nun and religious writer, Libro de las consolaciones humanas (Book of life’s consolations) : Admiracion operum Dey (The Wonder of God’s Works).
(b. c1420, Cartagena – d. c1470)

Carter, Elizabeth
British translator, poet, and letter writer
(b. 1717 – d. 1806)

Carter, Ernestine Marie
American journalist, author, and fashion editor, Flash in the Pan.
(b. c1910 – d. Aug 1, 1983, Washington D.C.)

Cartwright, Julia
British biographer, historian, and writer, Baldassare Castiglione (1908) : Isabella d’Este (1913).
(b. 1851, Edgecot, Northamptonshire – d. April 28, 1924)

Carus-Wilson, Eleanor May
British economic historian, she was an authority on English medieval trade and industry, author of Medieval Merchant Adventurers (1954).
(b. 1897, Montreal, Canada – d. 1977)

Carvajal de Mendoza, Luisa
Spanish religious poet and educational patron, founded college of English Jesuits in Belgium.
(b. 1568, Jaraicejo, Caceres, Spain – d. 1614, London, England)

Carvalho, Maria Judite de
Portugese writer, novelist and journalist, Os armarios vazios (The Empty Cupboards) (1966) : A janela fingida (The Imitation Window) (1975).
(b. 1921, Lisbon)

Cary, Elizabeth see Falkland, Lady

Cary, Mary
English prophetess, member of the fifth Monarchist millenarian sect, author of The Little Horn’s Doom and Downfall (1654).
(b. c1621 – d. after 1656)

Casanova de Lutoslawski, Sonia (Sofia)
Spanish poet, writer, novelist and essayist, Lo eterno (The Eternal) (1907) : Princesa rusa (The Russian Princess) (1922) : Las catacumbas de Rusia roja (Red Russian Catacombs) (1933).
(b. 1862, Almeiras, La Coruna, Galicia – d. 1958, Warsw, Poland)

Case, Bertha L.
British flower painter
(fl. 1873 – 1913)

Casely-Hayford, Gladys May
American poet
(b. May 11, 1904 – d. Oct, 1950)

Casey, Maie Sumner Ryan, Lady
Australian diplomatic wife and memoirist
(b. 1891 – d. 1983)

Cash, Deidre (Criena Rohan)
Australian novelist, The Delinquents (1962).
(b. July 16, 1924, Melbourne, Victoria – d. March 11, 1963, Melbourne)

Cassab, Judy
Australian painter and portraitist
(b. 1920, Vienna, Austria)

Castellano, Ruffina
Italian still-life painter, daughter of Columba Garri.
(fl. c1670 – c1690)

Castelli, Anna
Italian vocalist, performed at Covent Garden with Francesco Baralti and Gaetano Quilici.
(fl. c1740 – 1755)

Castillo de Gonzalez, Aurelia
Cuban poet, traveller, biographer, and translator, Escritos (1913 – 1918).
(b. 1842, Camaguez, Cuba – d. 1920)

Castle, Agnes
British author, My Little Lady Anne (1896).
(b. c1848 – d. April, 1922)

Castlemaine, Countess of see Villiers, Barbara

Castro, Rosalia de
Spanish poet and novelist, Cantares gallegos (Galician Songs) (1863) : Follas novas (New Leaves (1880) : En las orillas del Sar (On the Shores of the Sar) (1884).
(b. 1837, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia – d. 1885, Padron)

Catchpole, Margaret
Anglo-Australian convict heroine.
(b. 1762, Suffolk, England – d. 1819, Richmond)

Catenacci, Maria
Italian vocalist, performed at the King’s Theatre, London, Issipile and Nitteti.
(fl. c1775 – 1786)

Catharine Howard
Queen of England 1540 – 1542, fifth wife of Henry VIII, daughter of Lord Edmund Howard. Convicted of adultery and treson with Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham.
(b. 1521 – beheaded Feb 12, 1542, Tower Green, London)

Catharine of Braganza
Queen of England 1661 – 1685, m. (1661) King Charles II (1630 – 1685). Retired permanently to Portugal (1692) and later ruled as regent for her brother Pedro II.
(b. 1638 – d. 1705)

Catherine of Valois see Katharine

Catley, Anne
British actress, vocalist, dancer and courtesan, Thomas and Sally (1763).
(b. 1745, London – d. 1789, Ealing)

Cato, Nancy Fotheringham
Australian novelist and poet, All the Rivers Run (1958).
(b. March 11, 1917, Adelaide, SA – d. July 3, 2000, Sunshine Coast, QLD)

Caumont, Marie Louise de Noailles, Duchesse de
French courtier, friend of the Dauphine Marie Josephe, mother of Louis XVI.
(b. 1710 – d. 1782)

Cavell, Edith Louisa
British nurse and war heroine
(b. 1865, Swardeston, Norfolk – shot Oct 12, 1915 by the Germans)

Cavendish, Lucy Caroline Lyttelton, Lady
British social reformer
(b. 1841 – d. 1926)

Cavendish, Margaret see Newcastle, Duchess of

Cazette, Sophie Clemence de la
French portrait painter
(b. 1774 – d. 1854)

Cederstrom, Christina Charlotte
Swedish portrait painter
(b. 1760 – d. 1832)

Celeste, Madame (Celeste Elliott)
French actress
(b. Aug 6, c1810, Paris – d. Feb 12, 1882, Paris)

Cellier, Elizabeth Dormer
English political intriguer and midwife, author of Malice Defeated (1680).
(fl. 1670 – 1688)

Celotti, Ziuliana (Juliana Cellott)
British vocalist, performed benefits for the Caverley Dancing Academy.
(fl. c1700 – 1714)

Centlivre, Susanna
British dramatist and poet, The Busy Body (1709) : A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1718).
(b. c1670, Lincolnshire – d. 1723)

Cesarini, Livia
Italian heiress, wife of Federico Sforza, Duca di Segni.
(b. c1653 – d. 1712)

Chabi
Mongol empress, favourite wife of Khubilai Khan.
(b. c1225 – d. 1281)

Chacel, Rosa
Spanish novelist, essayist and poet, La Sinrazon (Unreason) (1960) : Novelas antes de tiempo (Novels Ahead of Time) (1981).
(b. 1898, Valladollid)

Chadwick, Nora Kershaw
British scholar and historian, Celtic Britain (1963) : The Druids (1966) : The Celts (1970).
(b. 1891, Lancashire – d. 1972)

Chaine, Josephine Olivier
French painter, student and later wife of Achille Chaine
(b. 1847 – d. 1882)

Chamberlain, Anne
American novelist, poet, journalist, and educator
(b. Sept 24, 1917, Marietta, Ohio)

Chambers, Charlotte
Anglo-Indian mutiny victim, brutally murdered whilst pregnant.
(b. 1833, England – d. May 10, 1857, Meerut, India)

Chambers, Dorothea Katharine Lambert
British tennis player, winner of the ladies’ Olympic gold medal (1908).
(b. 1878, Ealing – d. 1960)

Chambers, Fanny Wilton, Lady
British devotional writer, produced a volume of prayers (1821).
(b. 1757 – d. April 15, 1839)

Champourcin, Ernestina de
Spanish poet and novelist, Ahora (Now) (1928) : Carcel de los sentidos (Prison of the Senses) (1964) : Primer Exilio (First Exile) (1978).
(b. 1905, Vitoria)

Chandler, Helen
American actress, Outward Bound (1930) : (Dracula (1931).
(b. Feb 1, 1906, Charleston, South Carolina – d. April 30, 1965, Hollywood, California)

Chang, Chien-Ying
Chinese still-life painter, Roses with a Blue Budgerigar (1963) m. artist Cheng-Wu Fei.
(b. 1915, China)

Chant, Laura Ormiston
British undenominational lecturer, poet, composer, and writer.
(b. 1848, Chepstow – d. Feb 16, 1923)

Chapman, Constance
British actress, Miss Bates in television mini-series of Jane Austen’s, Emma (1972).
(b. March 29, 1912, Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset – d. Aug 10, 2003)

Chapman, Gladys Doten
American suffrage leader
(b. 1886, Portland, Maine – d. March 24, 1980, Portland, Maine)

Chapone, Hester Mulsho
British essayist, Letters on the Improvement of the Mind.
(b. 1727, Northamtonshire – d. 1801)

Charen, Eugenie Margeurite Honoree Lethiere (Mme Servieres)
French period genre painter
(b. 1786 – d. after 1824)

Charke, Charlotte
British actress and dramatist, The Art of Management (1735).
(b. c1713 – d. 1760, Islington, London)

Charlotte of Luxemburg
Grand duchess regnant 1919 – 1964. Abdicated in favour of her son Jean.
(b. Jan 23, 1896 – d. 1985)

Charlotte Augusta
British princess, only child of George IV. She died in childbirth.
(b. Jan 7, 1796, Carlton house, London – d. Nov 6, 1817, Claremont House, Esher, Surrey)

Charlotte Augusta Matilda
British Princess Royal, wife (1797) of Frederick I, King of Wurttemburg (1754 – 1816).
(b. Sept 29, 1766, Buckingham Palace, London
d. Oct 6, 1828, Ludwigsburg Palace, Stuttgart, Wurrtemburg)

Charlotte Margaret Stuart
English princess, daughter of James II and Mary Beatrice d’Este. She died young.
(b. Aug 16, 1682, St James’s Palace, London
d. Oct 6, 1682, St James’s Palace)

Charlotte Sophia
Queen of Great Britain 1761 – 1818, wife of George III. Patron of Sir Joseph Banks. Mother of the Prince Regent (George IV) (1762 – 1830). Fifteen children.
(b. May 19, 1744, Mirow, near Strelitz, Mecklenburg, Germany
d. Nov 17, 1818, Kew Palace, Surrey)

Charlus, Marie Louise Philippine de Bonnieres de Guines, Comtesse de
French courtier, favoured by Louis XV. Visited Horace Walpole in England several times.
(b. c1759 – d. 1796)

Charnock, Ellen
British flower painter
(fl. c1845 – 1861)

Charpentier Constance Marie Blondelu
French portrait painter
(fl. c1790 – c1820)

Charretie, Anna Maria Kenwell
British flower and still life painter
(fl. 1842 – 1875)

Chartres, Francoise Marie d’Orleans-Joinville, Duchesse de
French Bourbon princess, wife (1863) of Robert d’Orleans, Duc de Chartres (1840 – 1910).
(b. Aug 14, 1844, Chateau de Neuilly – d. Oct 28, 1925, Chateau de Saint-Firmin)

Chase, Elizabeth Coykendall
American political campaign adviser and writer
(b. 1914, Iowa – d. Jan 26, 1992, Connecticut, Massachusetts)

Chase, Ilka
American actress, novelist, and memoirist, Now Voyager (1942).
(b. April 8, 1905 – d. Feb 15, 1978)

Chase, Jessie
British flower painter
(fl. 1885 – 1886)

Chase, Marian Emma
British water-colour, landscape, and still life painter
(b. April 18, 1844, London – d. March 15, 1905, London)

Chase, Mary Coyle
American writer, journalist, dramatist, and novelist
(b. Feb 25, 1907, Denver, Colorado)

Chatelain, Marie (Henriette)
French Catholic nun, nurse, administrator and letter writer.
(b. 1823, Paris – d. 1897)

Chatillon, Agnes de
French Cistercian saint, sub-prioress of Beau Pre, near Tournay (March 28).
(fl. c1050)

Chatillon, Pauline (Mme Gauffier)
French genre painter, wife of the sculptor Gauffier.
(b. c1765 – d. 1801, Florence, Italy)

Cheesman, Evelyn Lucy
British explorer and entomologist, Hunting Insects in the South Seas (1932) : Time Well Spent (1960).
(b. 1881, Ashford, Kent – d. 1969)

Cheetham, Erika
British medieval scholar and writer, specialist on the prophecies of Nostradamus.
(b. July 7, 1939 – d. May 3, 1998)

Chenevix, Elizabeth
British toymaker and businesswoman
(b. c1695, London – d. 1755, Bath)

Cheron, Elisabeth Sophie
French portrait painter, enamellist, engraver, translator and musician.
(b. 1648 – d. 1711)

Cherry, Georgiana
Anglo-Indian diarist, kept a journal of her sea voyage to India (1821).
(b. 1805 – d. after 1835)

Chester, Alice
English merchant and trader, patron of All Saints Church, Bristol.
(b. c1415 – d. 1485, Bristol)

Chesterton, Ada Elizabeth
British journalist and philanthropist, In Darkest London (1926) : My Russian Adventure (1931).
(b. 1870, London – d. 1962)

Chevalier, Elizabeth Pickett
American author, editor, and film director, Drivin’ Woman (1942).
(b. March 25, 1896, Chicago, Illinois – d. Jan 3, 1984, Brentwood, California)

Chewton, Frances Bastard, Lady
British courtier, lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria (V.A).
(b. 1822 – d. April 11, 1902)

Cheyne, Jane Cavendish, Lady
English Royalist and writer, The Concealed Fancies.
(b. 1621 – d. 1669)

Cheyney, Emma S.
British flower painter
(fl. c1880 – 1894)

Cheyney, Lucy M.
British flower painter
(fl. 1837 – 1868)

Chidley, Catherine
English religious radical, Justification of the Independent Churches of Christ (1641).
(b. c1590 – d. c1667)

Childs, Agnes
British flower painter
(fl. 1852 – 1871)

Childs, Julia
British still-life painter
(fl. c1850 – 1864)

Childs-Clarke, Sophia
British still-life painter
(fl. c1870 - 1889)

Chilman, Lizzie
British flower painter
(fl. c1850 – 1864)

Chimay, Madeleine Charlotte Le Pelletier de Saint-Fargeau, Princesse de
French patrician, the last Revolutionary victim of Robespierre.
(b. May 7, 1723 – guillotined July 26, 1794, Paris)

Chisholm, Caroline
Australian philanthropist and author, devoted to assisting female immigrants, The ABC of Colonization (1850).
(b. 1808, Wootton, Northamptonshire – d. 1877)

Chitenden, Agnes
English Lollard heretic
(b. c1450 - d.1511)

Chodowiecka, Sophie Henriette (Mme Lecoq)
Polish portrait painter, sister of Suzette.
(b. 1770 – d. after 1797)

Chodowiecka, Suzette (Mme Henry)
Polish portrait painter, member of the Berlin Academy.
(b. 1763 – d. 1819)

Cholmondeley, Mary
British novelist and writer, The Danvers Jewels (1902) : Under one Roof (1918).
(b. c1850 – d. July 15, 1925)

Chorda i Requesens, Maria
Spanish poet, screenwriter and director, …i moltes altres coses (and Many Other Things) (1975) : Quadern del cos i de l’aigua (Notebook of the Body and of Water) (1978).
(b. 1942, Amposta)

Christian, Clara L.
British flower painter
(fl. 1890 – 1900)

Christian, Gerda
German Reich official, private secretary to Adolf Hitler.
(b. 1913 – d. 1997, Dusseldorf)

Christie, Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa
British novelist, The ABC Murders (1936) : The Murder on the Orient Express (1934).
(b. Sept 15, 1890, Torquay, Devon – d. Jan 12, 1976, Wallingford, Oxfordshire)

Christina of Markyate
English religious recluse, founder of Markyate priory, near St Albans.
(b. c1096 – d. c1163)

Chudleigh, Elizabeth
British courtier, traveller, adventurer and bigamist.
(b. 1720 – d. 1788)

Chudleigh, Mary Lee, Lady
British author and feminist, The Ladies Defence (1701).
(b. 1656, Winslade, Devonshire – d. 1710)

Churchill, Arabella
English Stuart courtier, sister of John, Duke of Marlborough, mistress of James II.
(b. 1648 – d. 1730)

Churchill, Clementine Ogilvy Hozier, Lady (‘Clemmie’)
British political figure, wife of PM Winston Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill (1965).
(b. 1885 – d. 1977)

Churchill, Jennie Jerome, Lady
American-Anglo political hostess, memoirist, editor of the Anglo-Saxon Review (1899 – 1900).
(b. 1854 – d. June 29, 1921)

Churchill, Vernita
British flower painter, Flower Piece.
(b. April 25, 1882, London)

Chute, Leatrice Joy
American novelist and writer, Greenwillow (1956).
(b. 1913, Minneapolis – d. Sept 6, 1987, New York)

Ciano di Cortellazzo, Edda Mussolini, Contessa
Italian public figure, daughter of dictator Benito Mussolini.
(b. Sept 1, 1910 – d. 1995)

Cibber, Susannah
British actress and vocalist
(b. 1714, London – d. 1766, Drury Lane)

Cibo, Caterina
Italian ruler of Camerino (1528) which she attempted to retain control of for her daughter Giulia da Varana. Deposed and exiled to Florence.
(b. Sept 13, 1501 – d. Feb 17, 1557, Florence, Italy)

Civrac, Marie Anne de La Faurie de Monbadon, Duchesse de
French courtier, lady-in-waiting to the daughters of Louis XV.
(b. 1720 – d. 1786)

Clairmont, Claire
British mistress of Lord Byron, mother of his daughter Allegra.
(b. 1798 – d. 1879, Florence, Italy)

Clare, Lady Elizabeth de
English heiress, founder of Clare College, Cambridge, granddaughter of Edward III.
(b. 1295 – d. 1360)

Clare, Mary
British actress, The Likes of Her (1923) : Mrs Pym of Scotland Yard (1940).
(b. 1894, London – d. 1970)

Clarke, Edith
British culinary educator, principal of the NTSCDS 1875 – 1919.
(b. Oct 27, 1844, Shrewsbury House, Shooter’s Hill, Kent – d. Aug 20, 1926)

Clarke, Elizabeth
English widow, hanged as a witch.
(b. c1580, Manningtree, Essex – d. 1645, Chelmsford)

Clarke, Kate
British flower painter
(fl. 1863 – 1884)

Clarke, Mary
British actress
(b. July 17, 1892 – d. Aug 29, 1970)

Clarke, Mary Anne
British adventuress, notorious mistress of Frederick, Duke of York.
(b. 1776 – d. 1852, France)

Clarke Hall, Edna Waugh, Lady
British painter
(b. 1880 – d. 1979)

Clausen, Eleanor M.
British flower painter
(fl. c1880 – 1890)

Clayton, Mary Anna
British flower painter
(fl. c1875 – 1885)

Cledat, Madame
French pastel painter
(fl. c1760 – 1770)

Cleghorn, Isabel
British educator, headmistress of Heeley Bank Council School, Sheffield.
(b. c1848, Rochester, Kent – d. Dec 5, 1922)

Clement, Margaret
English Catholic scholar and religious exile.
(b. 1508, Norfolk – d. 1570, Mechelin, Brabant)

Clementi, M.G.B. (Margherita ?)
Italian portrait painter, known as ‘La Clementina.’
(b. 1690, Turin, Piedmont – d. 1761)

Cleopa Malatesta
Byzantine Augusta 1421 – 1433, patron of the Greek philosopher George Gemistius Pleton.
(b. c1401 – d. 1433)

Clerc, Jeanette
Swiss witchtrial victim, executed for admitting to sorcery and consorting with the devil.
(b. c1490 – killed 1539, Geneva)

Clerke, Agnes Mary
Irish astronomer and scientific writer, The System of the Stars (1890).
(b. Feb 10, 1842, Cork, Ireland – d. Jan 20, 1907)

Clerke, Ellen Mary
Irish journalist, novelist, and poet, sister of Agnes. Flowers of Fire (1902).
(b. 1848 – d. March 6, 1906)

Clermont, Marie Anne de Bourbon-Conde, Princesse de
French courtier, chief lady-in-waiting 1725 – 1741 to Queen Marie, wife of Louis XV.
(b. Oct 16, 1697, Paris – d. Aug 11, 1741, Paris)

Clermont, Philippa de
French saint, patron of pilgrims and criminals, revered in the Dauphine.
(b. 1401, Clermont, Auvergne – d. Oct 15, c1450)

Clermont-Tonnerre, Elisabeth de Gramont, Duchesse de
French salonniere and writer
(b. April 23, 1875 – d. Dec 6, 1954, Paris)

Cleveland, Duchess of see Villiers, Barbara

Clifden, Eliza Horatia Frederica Seymour, Lady
British courtier, lady-in-waiting 1867 – 1896 to Queen Victoria.
(b. July 16, 1833 – d. May 20, 1896, Burk’s Wood)

Clifford, Lady Anne
English diarist and litigant, patron of Edmund Spenser.
(b. Jan 30, 1590 – d. March 22, 1676)

Clifford, Rosamund
English courtier, mistress of Henry II.
(b. c1148 – d. 1176, Abbey of Godstow)

Clifton, Violet Mary
British writer, The Book of Talbot (1933), later became a Claarissan nun.
(b. Nov 2, 1883, Little Grimsby Hall, Lincolnshire – d. Nov 20, 1961)

Clinton, Elizabeth see Lincoln, Countess of

Clinton, Frances Selina Isabella Poyntz, Lady
British courtier, lady-in-waiting 1830 – 1837 to Queen Adelaide, wife of William IV.
(b. 1795 – d. Aug 29, 1875, Middlesex)

Clinton, Louisa
British letter writer, corresponded with Lady Louisa Stuart.
(b. 1797 – d. 1854)

Clisby, Harriet Jemima Winifred
Anglo-Australian physician, feminist, and journalist.
(b. 1830, London – d. 1931, London)

Clitherow, Margaret
English Catholic martyr, pressed to death between two millstones.
(b. c1555, York – March 25, 1586)

Clive, Kitty (Catherine Raftor)
British actress, friend of Horace Walpole, she retired in 1769.
(b. 1711 – d. 1785)

Clough, Anne Jemima
British educator, founder of Newnham College, Cambridge.
(b. Jan 20, 1820, Liverpool – d. Feb 27, 1892)

Coates, Edith Mary
British mezzo-soprano vocalist
(b. 1908 - d. 1983)

Coates, Elizabeth
British actress
(b. c1768 - d. after 1830)

Coates, Mrs Everard
American journalist and writer, A Social Departure : An American Girl in London.
(b. c1854, Brantford, Canada - d. July 22, 1922)

Coates, Florence Van Leer Earle Nicholson
American-Anglo poet and author, Poems (1898) : Pro Patris (1917).
(b. July 1, 1850, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - d. April 6, 1927)

Coats, Alice M.
British plant historian and physiologist
(b. 1905 - d. 1978)

Coatsworth, Elizabeth Jane
American poet and novelist
(b. 1893 - d. 1986)

Cobb, Dita
Australian radio and television personality.
(b. 1923 - d. 1991)

Cobbe, Isabelle
American native Indian physician and educator
(b. 1858 - d. 1947)

Cobbe, Frances Power
British anti-vivisectionist campaigner and author, The Theory of Intuitive Morals (1855).
(b. Dec 4, 1822 - d. April 5, 1904)

Cobbold, Evelyn Murray, Lady
Britsh traveller and writer
(b. 1867 - d. Jan 25, 1963)

Cobbs, Ellen Kramer
American civil rights lawyer
(b. 1940, the Bronx, New York - d. April 29, 1984, Manhattan, New York)

Cobby, Anita
Australian murder victim
(b. 1959 - d. 1986)

Coblentz, Catherine Cate
American author
(b. 1897 - d. 1951)

Coburn, Kathleen
Canadian literary scholar and academic
(b. 1905 - d. 1991)

Cochrane, Flora Sandstrom, Lady
Finnish-Anglo novelist, Thelma Svane : The Milk White Unicorn.
(b. 1908)

Coello, Isabel Sanchez
Spanish painter, copied works of her father, Mateo Gilarte.
(b. 1564 - d. 1612)

Cohen, Harriet
British pianist
(b. c1880 - d. Nov 13, 1967)

Colby, Anita
American fashion model
(b. Aug 5, 1914 - d. March 27, 1992)

Cole, Belle
American contralto vocalist
(b. c1856, Chautauqua, America - d. Jan 5, 1904, England)

Cole, Stephanie
British actress, Waiting for God (Diana Trent) (1990) : Life as We Know It (2001).
(b. Oct 5, 1941, Solihull, Warwickshire, England)

Coleman, Emily Holmes
American society editor and novelist, The Shutter of Snow (1930).
(b. Jan 22, 1899, Oakland, California - d. June 13, 1974, Tivoli, New York)

Coleridge, Christabel Rose
British novelist, editor of Friendly Leaves.
(b. 1848, Chelsea, London - d. Nov 14, 1921)

Coligny, Louise Francoise de Bussy-Rabutin, Marquise de
French society figure, courtier of Louis XIV, she m. (1675) Gilbert Allyre de Langheac, Marquis de Coligny (1640 - 1676).
(b. Dec, 1646, Chateau de Forleans, Burgundy - d. 1716, Chateau de Montjeu, Autun)

Colles, Hesther
British actress and vocalist
(fl. c1770 - 1780)

Collet, Ann
British actress and singer
(fl. c1760 - 1771)

Collet, Catherine
British actress and dancer
(fl. 1767 - 1800)

Collier, Marie Elizabeth
Australian operatic soprano
(b. April 16, 1927, Ballarat, Victoria - d. Dec 7, 1971, London)

Collins, Clementina
British actress
(b. c1769 - d. after 1837)

Collins, Elizabeth L.
British still-life painter
(fl. c1860 - 1869)

Collinson, Eliza
British flower painter
(fl. 1856 - 1868)

Collyer, Mary
British novelist
(b. c1710 - d. 1763)

Colombatti, Elisabetta
Italian vocalist
(fl. 1791 - 1811)

Colombe, Emilie (1)
French vocalist and dancer. Forced to retire because of public scandal (1784).
(b. 1751 - d. 1830)

Colombe, Emilie (2)
French dancer
(fl. 1788 - 1789)

Colonna, Margherita di
Italian virgin saint, Clarissan nun at Palestrina.
(b. c1254, Rome - d. Dec 30, 1280, Rome)

Colton, Mary Cutting, Lady
Australian feminist and suffragette leader
(b. 1822 - d. 1898)

Columna, Francesca de la
Spanish essayist
(b. c1600 - d. 1660)

Colville, Cynthia Crewe-Milne, Lady
British courtier, lady-in-waiting to Queen Mary, wife of George V.
(b. May 20, 1884 - d. June 15, 1968)

Comitola, Francesca dei
Italian virgin saint, Clarissan nun (1213) at Assissi.
(b. c1195, Todi, Perugia - d. March 26, 1238, Assissi)

Comolera, Melanie de
French flower painter to Queen Adelaide 1827 - 1837.
(fl. 1816 - 1854)

Conde, Francoise d'Orleans-Longueville, Princesse de
French courtier of Henry III and Henry IV, second wife (1565) Louis I de Bourbon, 1st Prince de Conde (1530 - 1569). Dowager Princesse 1569 - 1601.
(b. April 5, 1548 - d. June 11, 1601).

Condell, Charlotte
British actress
(b. c1726 - d. May 23, 1759)

Condict, Jemima
American colonial diarist
(b. 1754 - d. 1799)

Conley, Marjorie Margaret
Australian soprano, Goossen's oratorio, The Apocalypse (1954).
(b. June 24, 1931, Stanmore, Sydney, NSW - d. Aug 11, 1959, Brisbane, QLD)

Connor, Dame Jean (Annie Jean)
Australian medical researcher, world authority on poliomeylitis.
(b. 1899, Beechworth, Victoria - d. Oct 13, 1968, Melbourne)

Constable, Isabel
British flower painter
(fl. c1840 - 1852)

Constance of Burgundy
Queen of Castile 1081 - 1093, m. King Alfonso VI (1040 - 1109) and mother of queen Urraca, dau. of Robert I, Duke of Burgundy. Introduced the Benedictine Order to Spain.
(b. c1059 - d. before Nov 22, 1093)

Constance of Sicily
Queen consort of Armenia 1329 - 1341, wife of King Leo V.
(b. 1303 - d. after April 19, 1344)

Constantin, Marie Leroux
French poisoner
(b. c1615 - d. 1660)

Constantini, Domenica
Italian actress, she specialized in servant roles.
(fl. c1670 - 1686)

Conti, Anna
Italian dancer
(fl. c1750 - 1755)

Conti, Louise Margeurite de Guise-Lorraine, Princesse de
French novelist and memoirist, Adventures de La Cour de perse (1629).
(b. 1588 - d. April 30, 1631, Eu)

Contini, Giovanna
Italian vocalist, performed at the King's Theatre, London, Aspasia in Temistocle.
(fl. c1730 - 1743)

Conway, Rose
American presidential secretary
(b. c1912 - d. March, 1980)

Cook, Emily Annie
British flower painter
(fl. c1870 - 1889)

Cook, Mabel Collins
British occultist and writer
(b. 1851, Guernsey - d. March 31, 1927)

Cooke, Mary
British actress and vocalist
(bapt. Feb 25, 1665 - d. March 18, 1745)

Cooke, Sarah
English actress
(b. c1648 - d. March, 1688)

Cookson, Dame Catherine
British novelist
(b. 1906 - d. June 11, 1998)

Coombes, Grace Emily (Combes)
British flower painter
(fl. c1870 - 1887)

Cooper, Alice J.
British tutor and lecturer at Oxford University 1897 - 1914.
(b. c1842 - d. June 17, 1917)

Cooper, Elizabeth
English Protestant martyr, burnt alive for heresy.
(b. c1530, Norwich - d. July 13, 1557, Norwich)

Cooper, Miriam
American silent film actress, Home Sweet Home (1914) : The Birth of a Nation (1915).
(b. 1891, Baltimore, Maryland - d. 1976)

Cooper, Dame Susie
British ceramicist and copper artist. OBE (1979).
(b. Oct 29, 1902, Burslem, Staffordshire - d. Oct 28, 1995, Douglas, Isle of Man)

Copeman, Constance Gertrude
British painter
(b. c1871 - d. c1963)

Copin, Elizabeth
British actress and vocalist
(b. c1714 - d. after May 20, 1773)

Corbett, Mary
English actress, Dainty Fidgett in The Country Wife (1675).
(fl. c1660 - c1682)

Corby, Ellen
American film and television actress, the grandmother in The Waltons (1972 - 1979).
(b. June 3, 1911, Racine, Wisconsin - d. April 14, 1999, Woodland Hills, California)

Corday, Mara
American actress, The Black Scorpion (1957).
(b. Jan 3, 1930, Santa Monica, California)

Corday, Rita (Paula)
American actress, The Falcon Strikes Back (1943) : The French Line (1956).
(b. 1924, Switzerland - d. 1992)

Corelli, Marie (Mary Mackay)
British novelist, A Romance of Two Worlds (1886) : The Love of Long Ago (1920).
(b. 1855, London - d. April 21, 1924)

Corey, Katherine Mitchell
English actress
(b. c1635 - d. after 1694)

Corkran, Alice
British journalist and writer, The Romance of Women's Influence.
(b. c1853, Paris, France - d. Feb 2, 1916)

Cornelia
Roman Vestal virgin, convicted unjustly by Commodus, and buried alive.
(b. c37 - d. 90 C.E.)

Cornelia Cinilla
Roman Republican patrician, second wife of Julius Caesar. Mother of his daughter Julia.
(b. c94 - d. 68 B.C.E., Rome)

Cornelia Supera, Gaia
Roman Augusta, wife of emperor Aemilian. Coins survive.
(fl. c240 - 253 C.E.)

Cornell, Katharine
American stage actress, The Barretts of Wimpole Street.
(b. 1893 - d. 1974)

Cornelys, Margaret
British actress
(b. 1723 - d. 1797)

Cornelys, Teresa Imer
Italian vocalist and business entrepeneur
(b. 1723, Venice - d. Aug 19, 1797)

Cornificia
Roman epigrammatist, her work no longer survives.
(b. c80 - d. after 41 B.C.E.)

Cornificia, Annia Aurelia
Roman Imperial princess, daughter of Marcus Aurelius. Killed at the order of Caracalla.
(b. 160 - d. 213 C.E.)

Corri, Adrienne
Scottish stage and film actress, Quo Vadis ? (1951) : Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978).
(b. Nov 13, 1930, Glasgow, Scotland)

Cosse-Brissac, Francoise Dorothee d'Orleans-Rothelin, Duchesse de
French Napoleonic courtier, lady-in-waiting to Madame Mere.
(b. Sept 28, 1752, Seine-et-Oise - d. Nov 26, 1818, Paris)

Costantini, Anna Elisabetta
Italian actress
(b. 1679, London - d. Oct 21, 1754, Paris)

Costantini, Teresa
Italian actress
(b. c1650 - d. 1730)

Costello, Dolores
American actress, Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936) : The Magnificent Ambersons (1942).
(b. Sept 17, 1905, Pittsburgh - d. 1979)

Costello, Helene
American actress, The Child Crusoes (1911) : When Dreams Come True (1929).
(b. June 21, 1903, New York - d. 1957)

Cottesworth, Lillias E.
British flower painter
(fl. c1870 - 1888)

Cotton, Barbara
British sketcher and floral painter, her drawings reproduced in Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London.
(fl. 1820 - 1824)

Coulcher, Mary Caroline
British nursing and ambulance service official
(b. 1852 - d. June 15, 1925)

Coulon, Anne Jacqueline
French dancer, with Noverre's company, Paris Opera.
(b. c1767 - d. before Dec, 1795)

Courcel, Nicole
French actress, The Testament of Orpheus (1960) : L' Esprit de Famille (1979).
(b. Oct 21, 1930, Saint-Cloud, France)

Court, Hazel
British actress, The Raven (1963) : The Masque of the Red Death (1964).
(b. Feb 10, 1926, Sutton Coldfield, near Birmingham, England)

Courtneidge, Dame Cicely
British commedienne and actress, wife of Jack Hulbert, Everybody Dance (1936).
(b. April 1, 1893, Sydney, Australia - d. 1980)

Cowham, Hilda
British painter
(b. c1886 - d. Sept 28, 1964)

Cowles, Barbara
British landscape, flower and still-life painter
(b. April 20, 1898, Melksham, Wiltshire)

Cowper, Anna
British flower painter
(fl. c1865 - 1875)

Cox, Elizabeth
English actress
(b. c1639 - d. c1688)

Cox, Louisa E.
British miniature, portrait and fruit painter
(fl. 1874 - 1888)

Cox, Susannah
British actress
(fl. c1695 - 1715)

Cranmer, Alice
English nun, sister of Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury, prioress of Sheppey, Kent 1534 - 1535, before being pensioned off at the dissolution of the monasteries.
(fl. 1509 - 1535)

Cranmer, Helen Worden
American journalist and foreign correspondent, guide book writer for New York.
(b. 1896, Denver, Colorado - d. July 31, 1984, Manhattan, New York)

Craon, Louise Antoinette Desmier d'Archiac de St Simon, Princesse de
French society figure, courtier of Louis XV and Louis XVI. Survived the Revolution.
(b. c1746 - d. after 1820)

Craus, Henriette de
French lay healer, convicted of witchcraft and heresy.
(b. c1391 - burnt at the stake, 1434, at Chamars)

Crawford, Anne
British actress, Daughter of Darkness (1947) : The Knights of the Round Table (1954).
(b. 1920, Palestine - d. 1956)

Crawford, Emily
Irish journalist and writer, Victoria, Queen and Ruler (1903).
(b. c1840, Dublin - d. Dec 30, 1915)

Crawford, Joan
American actress, Mildred Pierce (1945) : What Ever Happened to Baby Jane ? (1962).
(b. March 23, 1904, San Antonio, Texas - d. May 10, 1977, New York)

Crawford, Susan Fletcher
Scottish painter
(b. c1853, Glasgow, Scotland - d. April 23, 1919)

Cremonini, Clementina
Italian vocalist
(fl. c1750 - 1766)

Crespi, Jeanne
French barber, became a nun at Abbey of Longchamps upon her retirement.
(b. c1295 - d. 1349)

Cressy-Marks, Violet Olivia
British traveller and writer
(b. c1894 - d. Sept 12, 1970)

Creswell, Henrietta
British flower painter
(fl. 1875 - 1892)

Crews, Laura Hope
American character actress, Aunt Pittypat in Gone With the Wind (1939).
(b. Dec 12, 1879, San Francisco, California - d. 1942)

Crillon, Francoise Zoe de Rochechouart-Mortemart, Duchesse de
French society figure, wife (1806) of Felix des Balbes, Duc de Crillon (c1783 - 1870).
(b. June 10, 1787 - d. March 1, 1849)

Crisp, Henrietta Maria
British actress and vocalist
(b. 1709 - d. 1780)

Crispe, Leila Constance
British flower painter
(fl. c1870 - 1887)

Croft, Mary Ann
British still-life painter
(fl. 1804 - 1814)

Cronkhite, Bernice Brown
American college administrator at Radcliffe, educator and writer
(b. 1893 - d. 1983)

Crosbie, Annette
British actress, Queen Victoria in the Edward VII series, and Margaret Meldrew in, One Foot in the Grave television series (1990 - 2000).
(b. Feb 12, 1923, Gorebridge, Midlothian, Scotland)

Crosby, Caresse
American publisher and patron of Ezra Pound.
(b. 1891, New York - d. 1970, near Rome, Italy)

Crosby, Fanny (Mrs Van Alstyne)
American blind poet and hymnwriter, Autobiography (1906) : Safe in the Arms of Jesus (hymn).
(b. March 24, 1820, New York - d. Feb 12, 1915)

Cross, Frances
British actress and vocalist
(b. 1707 - d. 1781)

Cross, Letitia
British actress, dancer and vocalist
(b. c1676 - d. 1737)

Crouch, Anna Maria
British actress and vocalist
(b. 1763 - d. 1805)

Crowe, Alexandra
English cleric's wife, granted a pension by John of Gaunt despite her irregular marriage.
(fl. c1370)

Crowe, Jane
British dancer
(fl. 1791 - 1799)

Crowley, Patricia
American film and television actress, Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1965 - 1967).
(b. Sept 17, 1933, Olyphant, Pennsylvania)

Cumings, Florence Briggs Thayer
American socialite, survivor of the Titanic disaster (1912), widow of J. Bradley Cumings.
(b. Dec 31, 1873, Massachusetts - d. 1949)

Cummings, Constance
American actress, Lover Come Back (1931) : Blithe Spirit (1945).
(b. May 15, 1910, Seattle, Washington)

Cummings, Geraldine Dorothy
Irish novelist
(b. 1890 - d. Aug 24, 1969)

Cummins, Peggy
Welsh actress, Green Grass of Wyoming (1949) : In the Doghouse (1961).
(b. Dec 18, 1925, Prestatyn, North Wales)

Cunard, Grace
American stage and film actress, The Purple Mask and The Man Hater (1917).
(b. 1894, Columbus, Ohio - d. 1967)

Cundall, Pamela
British actress, played Mrs Fox (1969 - 1977) in Dad's Army television series.
(b. 1926, Croydon, Surrey, England)

Cundell, Nora L.M.
British landscape, flower and figure painter
(b. May 20, 1889, London - d. Aug 3, 1948, London)

Cunningham, Cecil
American character actress, governess to Norma Shearer in Marie Antoinette (1938).
(b. Aug 2, 1888, St Louis, Missouri - d. April 17, 1959, Los Angeles, California)

Curioni, Rosa
Italian vocalist
(fl. c1750 - 1762)

Currer, Elizabeth
British actress
(b. c1650 - d. c1744)

Currey, Fanny
Irish flower painter
(fl. c1880 - 1897).

Currie, Agnes Jean
British WRNS officer.
(b. May 30, 1899 - d. Oct 17, 1968)

Curtin, Jane
American actress and commedienne, Third Rock from the Sun television series.
(b. Sept 6, 1947, Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Curtin, Valerie
American actress and screenwriter, Alice Doesn't Live Here (1975) : Unfaithfully Yours (1984).
(b. March 31, 1945, Jackson Heights, New York)

Cusack, Dymphna
Australian novelist
(b. 1902, Wyalong, NSW - d. 1981)

Cusack, Joan
American actress, Married to the Mob (1988) : My Blue Heaven (1990).
(b. Oct 11, 1965, Evanston, Illinois)

Custrine, Delphine de Sabran, Marquise de
French society figure, mistress of famous statesman, the Vicomte de Chateaubriand, and immortalized in the title of Madame de Stael's novel Delphine (1802). Mother of the traveller and author Astolphe, Marquis de Custrine (1790 - 1857).
(b. March 18, 1770, Paris - d. July 13, 1826, Lausanne, Switzerland)

Cuyler, Margaret (Mrs Rice)
British actress
(b. 1758 - d. 1814)

Cuzzoni, Francesca
Italian vocalist
(b. 1700 - d. 1780)

Cymburka see Zimburga

Czaplicka, Marie Antoinette
Polish-Anglo traveller and author, My Siberian Year (1916).
(b. c1886, Warsaw, Poland - d. May 27, 1921)