Introduction/ Dale Spender -- Aphra Behn: a scandal to modesty (1640-1689) / Angeline Goreau -- Mary Astell: inspired by ideas (1668-1731) / Joan K. Kinnaird -- Mary Wollstonecraft: sexuality and women's rights (1759-1797) / Miriam Brody -- Harriet Martineau: a reassessment (1802-1876) / Gaby Weiner -- Margaret Fuller: feminist writer and revolutionary (1810-1850) / Marie Mitchell Olesen Urbanski -- Barbara Bodichon: integrity in diversity (1827-1891) / Jacquie Matthews -- Lucy Stone: radical beginnings (1818-1893) / Leslie Wheeler -- Matilda Joslyn Gage: active intellectual (1826-1898) / Lynne Spender -- Josephine Butler: from sympathy to theory (1828-1906) / Jenny Uglow -- Hedwig Dohm: passionate theorist (1833-1919) / Renate Duelli-Klein -- Millicent Garrett Fawcett: duty and determination (1847-1929) / Ann Oakley -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman: the personal is political (1860-1935) / Ann J. Lane -- Emma Goldman: anarchist Queen (1869-1940) / Alix Kates Shulman -- Olive Schreiner; new women, free women, all women (1855-1920) / Liz Stanley -- Vida Goldstein: the women's candidate (1869-1949) / Gaby Weiner -- Christabel Pankhurst: reclaiming her power (1880-1958) / Elizabeth Sarah -- Alice Paul: the quintessential feminist (1885-1977) / Jean Willis -- Virginia Woolf: the life of natural happiness (1882-1941) / Naomi Black -- Vera Brittain: feminist in a New Age (1896-1970) / Muriel Mellown -- Mary Ritter Beard: women as force (1876-1958) / Ann J. Lane -- Simone de Beauvoir: dilemmas of a feminist radical (1908- ) / Mary Evans -- Modern Ffeminist theorists; reinventing rebellion / Dale Spender.