This selection of Times obituaries from 1872 to 2014 revisits the
lives of 125 women who have all, in their own way, played an
important part in women's educational, professional, social,
cultural and emotional journey over the best part of two centuries.
The anthology starts with the obituary of 91-year-old pioneering
mathematician and scientist Mary Somerville (d. 1872) and concludes
with that of 110-year-old concert pianist and Holocaust survivor
Alice Herz-Sommer (d. 2014). In between come a formidable trio of
later scientists: the discoverer of radium Marie Curie; the unsung
heroine of DNA, Rosalind Franklin; and the only British woman to
win a Nobel Prize for science, Dorothy Hodgkin. Plus a further
quintet of great pianists: Clara Schumann, Myra Hess, Eileen Joyce,
Tatiana Nikolayeva and Moura Lympany. Among campaigners, there is
nursing reformer Florence Nightingale (d. 1910), along with
suffragists Emmeline, Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst (d. 1928,
1958 and 1960), the 20th century's best-known promoter of
contraception (Marie Stopes, d. 1958), civil rights worker Rosa
Parks (d. 2005), founder of the hospice movement Cicely Saunders
(d. 2005), anti-apartheid campaigner Helen Suzman (d. 2009) and
Nobel Prize-winning environmentalist Wangari Maathai (d. 2011).
Interspersed are women prime ministers from Golda Meir of Israel
(d. 1978) to Margaret Thatcher (d. 2013); actresses from Sarah
Bernhardt (d. 1923) to Marilyn Monroe (d. 1962) and Elizabeth
Taylor (d. 2011); novelists from George Eliot (d. 1880) to Doris
Lessing (d. 2013); singers from Jenny Lind (d. 1887) to Joan
Sutherland (d. 2010); plus aviators, a mountaineer, a Channel
swimmer, war correspondents, ballerinas, sportswomen, botanists, US
first ladies, iconic members of the British royal family, and more.
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