Great British women

[chirpychirpy]

I can think of many great British men, like Churchill, Brunel, Logie Baird, Charles Darwin, Shakespeare, Faraday, Cliff (!), The Beatles, Lloyd Webber, Richard Branson, etc, but very few great British women except Florence Nightingale, Maggie Thatcher and a few 60s singers. Please can you suggest some great British women.

[paddywak]

Well em, how ever you work it out Connie was elected as Sien Féin member for Dublin St Partick's in December1918. Nancy was elected as Tory member for Plymouth in November 1919, by which time Connie had been an M.P for nearly a year

[emmie]

naomi, beat me to it, Edith Cavell, and should include Violette Szabo, who was anglo french.

[emmie]

Amy Johnson, aviator.

[emmie]

but she didn't take her seat, or so you said?

[paddywak]

Take her seat or not she was still MP for that seat and as such a member of Parliament.

[Ankou]

agatha christie, delia smith, jk rowling, enid blyton, beatrix potter, margot fonteyn, audrey hepburn, amy johnson, iris murdoch, mary quant, anita roddick, sue ryder, victoria wood, virginia woolf.......plus many many others

[emmie]

i reckon that chirpy is surprised and hasn't come back because there are a lot more than he realised.

[emmie]

she realised ..

[craft1948]

Pam Ayres..................

[VHG]

Beatrix Potter

Octavia Hill - helped form the National Trust

Speaking as a man, one of the problems is that us men held women back and pushed women down for centuries, giving them little room to become famous.

Beatrix Potter made a study of fungi and wanted to present at some scientific event, but was not allowed to (being a woman) and a man had to give her presentation for her. How arrogant is that of us men.

[tiggerblue10]

George Elliot.

[emmie]

dusty springfield, duffy, adele, amy winehouse, leslie garrett, katherine jenkins,

[emmie]

VHG, indeed you are correct, had the same conversation, debate any number of times with friends, male and female,

[saxy_jag]

There are also those who were SOE operatives, most of whom were captured, tortured and shot without giving up their secrets.

[emmie]

all the women pilots in WW2, who ferried the aircraft to the various bases around the country, they are real heroines in my eyes.

[chirpychirpy]

Katherine Jenkins? Give me a break!!!!

[emmie]

you may not like her, i don't either, but she has a good voice, has made it and is rich, so she should qualify. As to all the rest well they have earned their places in British history.

[marval]

Grace Darling

[emmie]

indeed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Darling

[jno]

Lady Katherine Fanshaw, aka The Wicked Lady highwaywoman, another female daring enough to take on a job normally the preserve of men.