Old records mostly wrote about men: kings, lords and mayors. That doesn't mean women weren't here! These are women connected to Enfield that we know about. Can you find out about more?
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Elizabeth I
Hunted on the Chase
In 1547 her brother Edward VI granted Princess Elizabeth the estate of West Lodge Park. It is believed that she often hunted on Enfield Chase.
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Kate Marsden
1859–1931
Born here
Born in Edmonton in 1859. A nurse, missionary, explorer and writer, she travelled from Moscow to Siberia to look for a cure for leprosy and set up a treatment centre there. She was elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
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Marie Lloyd
1870–1922
Performed here
A music hall singer, comedian and actress, called the 'Queen of the Music Hall'. She gave her last stage performance at the Empire Music Hall in Edmonton in 1922.
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Florence Dugdale
1879–1937
Born here
Born in Edmonton in 1879; her father taught at St Andrew's National School for Boys in Enfield. She was a journalist, a writer of children's short stories and a teacher. In 1914 she married the novelist and poet Thomas Hardy at St Andrew's Church, Enfield.
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Florence Green
1901–2012
Born here
Born in Edmonton in 1901. She served in the Women's Royal Air Force, and is thought to have been the last surviving veteran of the First World War from any country.
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Ivy Cummings
1901–1971
Born here
Born in Edmonton in 1901. She was an early racing car driver, said to be the youngest person ever to lap Brooklands.
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Gladys Aylward
1902–1970
Family from here
Her working-class family was from Edmonton. She became a Christian missionary in China. Her story was told in a 1957 book, The Small Woman, and a 1958 film, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness.
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Geraldine McCaughrean
born 1951
Went to school here
A children's novelist who has written more than 170 books, including Peter Pan in Scarlet, the official sequel to Peter Pan. She went to Enfield County Grammar School for Girls, and has won the Carnegie Medal twice.
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Enfield's market charter of 1303 was granted to Humphrey de Bohun and his wife, who could hold a market every Monday.
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The Tatem sisters owned a former gravel pit in Edmonton. In the 1930s they gave it to Edmonton Borough Council for a public park, and the park and its gardens opened in 1938.