Preface / Ann Cleeves -- Introduction -- Mary Astell: pioneer feminist writer -- Gertrude Bell: explorer, archeologist, Arab diplomat and scholar -- Margaret Bondfield: the first woman cabinet minister -- Mary Eleanor Bowes: tragic heiress -- Elinor M. Brent Dyer -- prolific writer, author of the Chalet School stories -- Kathleen Brown: suffragette and Newcastle's first hunger-striker -- Josephine Butler: pre-eminent Victorian social reformer -- Ivy Close: Britain's first national beauty queen and movie star -- Grace Colman MP: educator and defender of animal rights -- Ida Cook & Loiuse Cook: opera buffs and heroines of the Holocaust -- Catherine Cookson: best-selling author -- Grace Darling: heroine -- Emily Davies : pioneer of women's higher education -- Emily Wilding Davison: leading suffragette and campaigner -- Ruth Dodds: playwright and political activist -- Elizabeth Elstob: Anglo-Saxon scholar -- Lady Sybil Grey: established the Red Cross Hospital in Petrograd 1916 -- Isa Jobling: landscape and genre painter in oil and watercolour -- Sister Winifred Laver: servant of Gateshead's poor and destitute for sixty years -- Dorothy Lawson: recusant and priest harbourer -- Connie Lewcock: suffragette and Tyneside politician -- Charlie Marsh: militant suffragette, suffered imprisonment and force-feeding -- Harriet Martineau: Britain's first woman sociologist -- Sister Kate Maxey: distinguished nurse of World War One -- Elizabeth Montagu: literary patron, author and coal magnate -- Mo Mowlam: cabinet minister and Northern Ireland peace negotiator -- Dr Ruth Nicholson: First World War surgeon and medical pioneer -- Rachel Parsons: engineer and campaigner for women's employment -- Mabel Philipson: Gaiety Girl and the north-east's first woman MP -- Dr Marion Phillips: outstanding women's organiser -- Anna Richardson: leading anti-slavery campaigner -- Muriel Robb: England Ladies Singles Tennis Champion -- Denise Robertson: novelist and well-loved `Agony Aunt' -- Flora Robson: dramatic actress of stage and screen -- Githa Sowerby: author and playwright -- Nancy Spain -- prominent journalist and broadcaster -- Irene Ward: the `Mother of the House' -- Lady Louisa Waterford: artist and philanthropist -- Ellen Wilkinson: cabinet minister and Jarrow `Crusader' -- Dr Ethel Williams: Newcastle's first woman doctor and suffragist.

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