Historical Dictionary of British Women (Revised edition) Available to Purchase

First published in 1983 as The Europa Biographical Dictionary of British Women, A Historical Dictionary of British Women expands and updates its previous incarnation in an attempt to chronicle, in some 1,100 entries, the achievement of British women over the past 2,000 years. The major changes in this edition include 50 new entries, mostly relating to women who have died in the past 20 years; an updated bibliography to accompany each entry; and the addition of two indexes, one dividing the entries by century, and the other by area of activity.

The scope of the work is ambitious, and...