In 2014 The Times published Great Women's Lives - A Celebration in Obituaries. The obituaries featured range from 1872 to 2014 and feature the lives of the 125 women listed below. All, in their own way, played an important part in women's educational, professional, social, cultural and emotional journeys.

ISBN 0750960566 - forward by Lucy Worsley; Editor Sue Corbett.

The purpose of this project is to connect the women included in the publication to existing family trees on Geni, and where they are not yet included to build trees for them. This is not a listing of ALL great women - it features only those women whose obituaries are included in the book. They will probably also be included in various projects dedicated to amazing women. These are linked to this project in the listing of related projects on the right.

Featured Women

The women are arranged chronologically in the book - here they are listed alphabetically with the page numbers added.

A

• Elizabeth Garrett Anderson p 77
• Marian Anderson p 254
• Elizabeth Anscombe p 319
• Dame Peggy Ashcroft p 240
• Laura Ashley p220
• Nancy, Viscountess Astor p 155

B

• Mavis Batey p460
• Lilian Baylis p117
• Dorotheas Beale p 44
• Gertrude Bell p 90
• Benazir Bhutto p 402
• Sarah Bernhardt p 84
• Simone de Beauvoir p 222
• Shirley Becke p431
• Enid Blyton p160
• Margaret Bondfield p132
• Rosa Bonheur p42
• Nadia Boulanger p 194
• Baroness Burdett-Coutts p 50
• Frances Mary Buss p31
• Josephine Butler p58

C

• Maria Callas p 191
• Baroness Castle of Blackburn p346
• "Coco" Chanel p 167
• Dame Agatha Christie p 176
• Lady Randolph Churchill p80
• Marie Colvin p434
• Joan Crawford p189
• Marie Curie p112

D

• Elizabeth David p248
• Emily Davies p 82
• Bette Davis p229
• Diana, Princess of Wales p286
• Marlene Dietrich p244

E

• Amelia Earhart p114
• Gertrude Ederle p 369
• George Eliot p 23
• Elizabeth, Countess of Longford p 360
• Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother p330
• Dame Edith Evans p 183

F

• Dame Millicent Fawcett p101
• Brigadier Anne Field p 422
• Dame Gracie Fields p202
• Dame Margot Fonteyn p 234
• Rosalind Franklin p141

G

• Indira Gandhi p211
• Professor Dorothy Garrod p162
• Martha Gellhorn p306
• Dame Adeline Genée p164
• Katharine Graham p 327

H

• Odette Hallowes p274
• Alison Hargreaves p280
• Dame Caroline Haslett p135
• Lillian Hellman p209
• Katharine Hepburn p364
• Dame Barbara Hepworth p172
• Alice Herz-Sommer p 474
• Dame Myra Hess p 158
• Octavia Hill p 72
• Dorothy Hodgkin p 271

J

• Professor Daphne Jackson p 233
• Gertrude Jekyll p109
• Amy Johnson p122
• Janice Joplin p166
• Eileen Joyce p 239

K

• Jean Kirkpatrick p396

L

• Suzanne Lenglen p119
• Doris Lessing p464
• Jenny Lind p27
• Joan Littlewood p354
• Dame Kathleen Lonsdale p 169
• Dame Moura Lympany p378

M

• Wangari Maathai p 429
• Beryl Markham p 226
• Dame Alicia Markova p373
• Harriet Martineau p13
• Dame Anne McLaren p399
• Barbara McClintock p251
• Golda Meir p 196
• Dame Nellie Melba p 106
• Marilyn Monroe p 149
• Maria Montessori p128
• Countess Mountbatten of Burma p 145
• Dame Iris Murdoch p309

N

• Florence Nightingale p 61
• Tatiana Nikolayeva p261

O

• Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis p263

P

• Dame Christabel Pankhurst p139
• Emmeline Pankhurst p93
• Sylvia Pankhurstp 147
• Rosa Parks p 384
• Anna Pavlova p104
• Eva Peron p130
• Jacqueline du Pré p 228

R

• Ginger Rogers p 277
• Eleanor Roosevelt p151
• Christina Rossetti p33
• Dame Miriam Rothschild p 375
• Baroness Ryder of Warsaw p 316

S

• Dame Cicely Saunders p381
• Dorothy L Sayers p137
• Clara Schumann p36
• Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf p392
• Pat Smythe p282
• Mary Somerville p 16
• Dame Muriel Spark p387
• Dusty Springfield p313
• Dame Freya Stark p256
• Marie Stopes p143
• Harriet Beecher Stowe p 37
• Dame Joan Sutherland p410
• Helen Suzman p406

T

• Dame Elizabeth Taylor p414
• Shirley Temple p470
• Mother Teresa p 297
• Dame Ellen Terry p 96
• Baroness Thatcher p437
• Dame Sybil Thorndike p 179

V

• Dame Ninette de Valois p 322

W

• Dame Rebecca West p205
• Joyce Wethered p 304
• Ellen Wilkinson p126
• Amy Winehouse p 424
• Cecil Woodham-Smith p 187
• Virginia Woolf p124

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