Last August I went to Oxford to visit the Tolkien exhibition, and, by a lucky chance, there was also a feminist exhibition in honour of the suffrage centenary, called ‘Women Who Dared’, featuring both suffragette material and original manuscripts and books by and/or about women in history - writers, poetesses, scientists, pirates and soldiers :D
Part 2 - Representation of women in history, including Sappho (Ancient Greek poetess), Lady Ise (8th-9th Century Japanese poetess), Christine de Pizan (14th-15th Medieval writer, the first European professional author, with feminist writings), Mary Read and Anne Bonny (17-18th Century pirates), Hannah Snell (18th Century soldier), Ada Lovelace (19th Century mathematician and programming pioneer) and Mabel Purefoy FiztGerald (19-20th Century pathologist).