Answer: Writer

Fanny Burney (known as Madame D'Arblay after her marriage) was well-known for her novels and diaries, which recorded her life within the literary circles of Samuel Johnson. Her plaque is at 11 Bolton Street in Mayfair and was erected in 1885.

Answer: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson set up her groundbreaking medical practice while living at 20 Upper Berkeley Street in Marylebone from 1865 to 1874. There is now a blue plaque to her at this address.

Answer: Lord Byron

Ada, Countess of Lovelace (1815–52), was the daughter of Lord and Lady Byron and was privately educated in maths and science on the wishes of her mother. As a result of the extended notes she wrote for Charles Babbage, she was described as one of the first computer programmers.

Image: An illustration of Lord Byron 

Answer: 1928

Some women were given the right to vote in 1918, as a result of the Representation of the People Act. But it only applied to women over the age of 30 who met a property qualification. Although 8.5 million women met this criteria, it only represented 40 per cent of the total population of women in the UK.

Answer: Violette Szabo

Secret agent Violette Szabo (1921-45) became the first woman to be awarded the George Cross following her (ultimately fatal) missions into occupied France during the Second World War.

Answer: 1869

Girton College was based initially at Hitchin, Hertfordshire, and from 1873 on the edge of Cambridge, but it did not become part of Cambridge University until 1948.

Answer: Molecular structures

Rosalind Franklin pioneered the study of molecular structures. Most notably, her research into DNA molecules helped Watson and Crick identify the structure of DNA in 1953. There is a blue plaque on her former home in Donovan Court, 107 Drayton Gardens, Chelsea.

Image: A close-up of DNA molecules 

Answer: Carisbrooke Castle

By the age of 26, Isabella had inherited not only her husband's lands and title, but much of the estate of her brother, Baldwin de Redvers, Earl of Devon. This included the lordship of the Isle of Wight, where she chose to make Carisbrooke Castle her main home, transforming it into a setting that befitted her wealth and prestige.

Image: A selection of images of Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight

Answer: Eleanor of Aquitaine

The 800-year-old tomb of Eleanor of Aquitaine shows her reading the bible. The tomb is at Fontevraud Abbey in the village of Fontevraud L'Abbaye in the Loire Valley, France.

Image: The tomb of Eleanor of Aquitaine 

Answer: Nancy Astor (1879-1964)

Nancy Astor (1879-1964) was an American society hostess who in 1919 was promoted as a stop-gap candidate for her husband's former seat, Plymouth Sutton. She won and held the seat for the Conservatives for more than 25 years.

Although Nancy Astor was the first woman to take her seat in parliament, the first woman to be elected to the Commons was Constance Markievicz, in the general election of 1918. However, as a member of Sinn Fein, Markievicz refused to take her seat in Parliament.

Image: A black-and-white photograph of Nancy Astor

Answer: Virginia Woolf

Woolf occupied the whole of the second floor and spent her time here writing articles for newspapers and began her first novel, The Voyage Out, which was published in 1915. A previous tenant at the same address had been George Bernard Shaw, whose plaque sits above that to Woolf.

Image: The blue plaque to Virginia Woolf

Answer: Kenwood

Dido Belle was raised by Lord Mansfield, the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, who presided over landmark court cases in the history of slavery and the slave trade. Evidence suggests that she was brought up as a lady rather than as a servant.

Answer: 300,000

The Contagious Diseases Act of 1864 was passed in secret and only affected women. It allowed for any woman suspected of being a 'common prostitute' to submit to an internal genital examination by a male doctor. Butler helped to lead the fight against the act.

Answer: Bess of Hardwick

Rising from a modest background to become a friend of Elizabeth I and one of the richest women of her time, Bess (1527-1608) was also an ambitious builder, whose houses symbolised her rise to wealth and power. She survived four husbands.

Image: Bess of Hardwick

Answer: Streaneshalch

It's thought that Streaneshalch means 'Streane's headland'. The first monastery at Whitby, founded in about 657, became one of the most important religious centres in the Anglo-Saxon world. In 664 it was the setting for the Synod of Whitby, a landmark in the history of the Church in England.

Image: The ruins of Whitby Abbey

Answer: Croydon

On 5 May 1930, when she set off from Croydon in a second-hand De Havilland Gipsy Moth, Johnson was virtually unknown. Nineteen days later, on arriving at Port Darwin, she became the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia, and was hailed as an international celebrity and a model of courage and determination.

Answers: Mary Macarthur, Enid Blyton, Sylvia Pankhurst, Nancy Mitford

Answer: Gertrude Bell (1868-1926)

Before she embarked on her extraordinary travels (which included two round-the-world trips, mountaineering expeditions and becoming honorary director of antiquities in Iraq), Bell would have frequent country house weekends at her grandfather's house, Mount Grace Priory.

Answer: Dover Castle

In October 1265, royalist prisoners at Dover Castle convinced their guards to release them, and fortified the tower against her. When Prince Edward heard what had happened he besieged the castle. Eleanor negotiated a settlement in which she was exiled to the continent but her supporters would receive pardons.

Image: The view from Dover Castle, looking towards the Strait of Dover

Answer: Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley (1797-1851) lived at 24 Chester Square in Belgravia between 1846 and 1851. Her best-known book is Frankenstein, which is part Gothic novel and part philosophical novel.