Old records mostly wrote about men: kings, bishops and lords. That doesn't mean women weren't here! These are women connected to Hammersmith and Fulham that we know about. Can you find out about more?
CB
Caroline of Brunswick
1768–1821
Lived here
Queen consort of George IV. In 1820 she lived at Brandenburgh House, a riverside mansion in Hammersmith, and she died there in 1821.
JD
Jeanne Deroin
1805–1894
Lived here
A French socialist feminist, born in Paris. She spent the second half of her life in exile in London, living in Shepherd's Bush, where she worked teaching and embroidering.
GG
Giulia Grisi
1811–1869
Lived here
An Italian opera singer, among the leading sopranos of the 1800s. She and her husband, the tenor Mario, made Fulham their home from 1852.
EC
Ellen Craft
1826–1891
Lived here
Born into slavery in Macon, Georgia, in the United States, Ellen and her husband William Craft escaped in December 1848 and became abolitionists. For most of their time in England the family lived in Hammersmith, where a blue plaque remembers them.
EB
Enid Moberly Bell
Started a school here
In September 1917 she started Lady Margaret School, when Whitelands College School was threatened with closure.
JH
Jocelyn Herbert
1917–2003
Lived here
A stage designer. Her family lived on Lower Mall in Hammersmith, as neighbours of George and Sophie Devine.
RF
Rosalind Franklin
1920–1958
Went to school here
A chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to understanding the structure of DNA. At 11 she went to St Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith.