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Even before they gained the right to vote and to stand for election, women played many key roles in the development of British Liberalism – as writers and thinkers, campaigners, political hostesses, organisers and, finally, as parliamentary candidates, MPs and peers. Read the stories of the women who shaped British Liberalism.

Introduction: Women in Liberal politics • Mary Wollstonecraft • Lady Palmerston • Harriet Taylor Mill • Caroline Norton • Josephine Butler • Lady Carlisle • Millicent Garrett Fawcett • Mary Gladstone • Radical suffragists • Marie, Margery and Cicely Corbett • The first Liberal women leaders in local politics • Margaret Wintringham • Violet Bonham Carter • Frances Josephy • Megan Lloyd George • Nancy Seear • Laura Grimond • Stina Robson • Sheelagh Murnaghan • Vera Head • Shirley Williams • Ray Michie • Patsy Calton • Floella Benjamin • Lynne Featherstone • Jo Swinson • List of all Liberal, SDP and Liberal Democrat women MPs