Two working copies, ts with ms additions and corrections, 30pp and 38pp. The paper discusses, inter alia, Winifred Mercier, Caroline Skeel, Bertha Phillpotts, Ivy Pinchbeck, Doris Stenton, Cecilia Ady, Eleanor Jourdain, Margery Perham, Maude Clarke, Eleanor Lodge, Gladys Scott Thomson, Elizabeth Levett, Lilian Knowles, Eileen Power, M G Jones, Helen Cam, and Eleonora Carus-Wilson.