Statues of Women in London | How Many and Who Do They Commemorate?

For International Women's Day I'm celebrating the 19 statues of women that I've come across London.

There are probably way more - do let me know who I've missed! But I've selected these ones because they're all public, free-standing and non-Royal, historical women.

In any case I hope you enjoy hearing a bit about their eventful, inspiring and sometimes heartbreaking lives.

Here's a map of all the statues I mention; https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1tG5HPgYuN0TpXV3CBx-DXnnlUkr6Xiuc&usp=sharing

Here is a list of all the women;
1. Boudicca - b.30AD
2. Sarah Siddons - b.1755
3. Mary Wollstonecraft - b.1759
4. Mary Seacole - b.1805
5. Florence Nightingale - b.1820
6. Catherine Booth - b.1829
7. Millicent Garrett Fawcett - b.1847
8. Emmeline Pankhurst - b.1858
9. Edith Cavell - b.1865
10. Ada Salter - b.1866
11. Margaret Ethel MacDonald - b.1870
12. Louisa Brandith Aldrich-Blake - b.1865
13. Virginia Woolf - b.1882
14. Agatha Christie - b.1890
15. Noor Inayat Khan - b.1914
16. Violette Szabo - b.1921
17. Joan Littlewood - b.1914
18. Lesley "Twiggy" Lawson - b.1949
19. Amy Winehouse - b.1983

SOURCES
- The number 925 for total UK Statues is from this article in 2016. https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/feminism/2016/03/i-sorted-uk-s-statues-gender-mere-27-cent-are-historical-non-royal-women
- In 2018 the BBC calculated there were 828 according to the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43884726
- NB - Sadly the PMSA has been disbanded and I couldn't find a full list available online, they were meant to be conducting a new survey in 2020 of statues and monuments so I don't know if there's another survey from a different body available.

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