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Author; wife of H.C. Dowdall; daughter of 19th Baron Borthwick
Sitter in 2 portraits 
Author; wife of Desmond John Newman Flower
Sitter in 1 portrait 
Political hostess and diarist; wife of 1st Baron Gladwyn
Sitter in 2 portraits 
Novelist and women's rights campaigner
Sitter in 3 portraits 
Novelist; wife of James William Morrell
Sitter in 1 portrait 
Writer; wife of 1st Earl Haig; daughter of 3rd Lord Vivian
Sitter in 14 portraits 
Women writers
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Mary Frances Harriet Dowdall (née Borthwick)
1876-1939Author; wife of H.C. Dowdall; daughter of 19th Baron Borthwick
Sitter in 2 portraits
1768-1849
Novelist; daughter of Richard Lovell Edgeworth
Sitter associated with 9 portraits
Novelist; daughter of Richard Lovell Edgeworth
Sitter associated with 9 portraits
Margaret Cameron Flower (née Coss)
1907-1998Author; wife of Desmond John Newman Flower
Sitter in 1 portrait
1810-1865
Novelist, short-story writer and biographer of Charlotte Brontë
Sitter in 4 portraits
Novelist, short-story writer and biographer of Charlotte Brontë
Sitter in 4 portraits
Cynthia Jebb (née Noble), Lady Gladwyn
1898-1990Political hostess and diarist; wife of 1st Baron Gladwyn
Sitter in 2 portraits
Sarah Grand (Frances Elizabeth Bellenden McFall, née Clarke)
1854-1943Novelist and women's rights campaigner
Sitter in 3 portraits
1939-
Writer and broadcaster; Professor of English and Comparative Studies
Sitter in 10 portraits
Writer and broadcaster; Professor of English and Comparative Studies
Sitter in 10 portraits
Helena Clapshaw Grose (Helena Morrell)
1904-1986Novelist; wife of James William Morrell
Sitter in 1 portrait
Dorothy Maud (née Vivian), Countess Haig
1879-1939Writer; wife of 1st Earl Haig; daughter of 3rd Lord Vivian
Sitter in 14 portraits
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