Walking our City of Women Walking 19 Piccadilly Circus National 1 Royal ofAcademy Arts Portrait 17 Gallery 16 18 National Gallery 2 Charing Trafalgar Cross 15 Square Welcome to our St James’s Walking Tour, 3 one of a series of walks that aims to take 13 you on a journey through central London to 14 6 St James’s discover some of the most pioneering and 12 Square inspirational women in British history. ICA Waterloo Gardens 9 7 Each stop is illustrated with portraits from 11 10 8 the National Portrait Gallery collection, and Royal Society you can either read or listen to our tour as you walk at this address: 4 Marlborough npg.org.uk/stjamess-walkingtour House Gardens St James’s Park This route should take roughly 1 hour 45 minutes. 5 St James’s Walking Tour 1 Nurse Edith Cavell (1865–1915), 8 Engineer Dame Ann Dowling 15 Politician Nancy Astor (1879–1964), St Martin’s Place (b.1952), RAE, Carlton House Terrace 4 St James’s Square The First World War nurse who gave The first female president of the Royal The first woman to sit in her life to help allied soldiers escape. Academy of Engineering. British parliament. 2 Artist Alison Lapper (b.1965), 9 Painter and Educator Maria Cosway 16 The Two Marys: Mary Beale (1633– Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square (1760–1838), 80–81 Pall Mall 1699) and Mary Delany (1700– The British artist born without arms 18th and 19th century artist and a 1788), St James’s Church, Piccadilly and with shortened legs who, at pioneer of women’s education in Italy. Memorials to the 17th century 8-months pregnant, was sculpted in portrait painter and the 18th century marble by Marc Quinn. artist of 1000 ‘paper mosaiks’. 3 Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst 10 Royal Mistress Nell Gwyn 17 Royal Academicians: Angelica (1858–1928), Trafalgar Square (1651?–1687), 79 Pall Mall Kauffmann (1741–1807) and Suffragette, founder of the WSPU 17th century actor and the most Mary Moser (1744–1819), Royal (Women’s Social and Political Union), popular of Charles II’s mistresses. Academy of Arts, Burlington House and fighter of VOTES FOR WOMEN! The only two women founders of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768. Miniature painting: Sarah Biffin 4 11 Pocahontas (c.1596–1617), St James’s Palace formerly (1784–1850) Banqueting House, Whitehall St James’s Hospital An artist who painted miniatures The famous 17th century Powhatan This was a women’s leper colony in with her mouth, having been born woman forced into English culture to the 12th century. without arms or legs. ensure colonial peace. 5 The Women of World War II 12 Architect Dame Jane Drew 18 The Lady’s Comet Hunter: Caroline monument (2005), Whitehall (1911–1996), 12 King Street Lucretia Herschel (1750–1848), Remembering 7 million women who Modern architect Jane Drew opened Royal Astronomical Society, contributed to the war effort by a women-only architect firm during Piccadilly working in hundreds of vital jobs. the Second World War. A celebrated astronomer who discovered several comets. 6 The Lady with the Lamp: 13 Computing Pioneer Ada Lovelace 19 A Hollywood Star: Anna May Wong Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), (1815–1852), 12 St James’s Square (1905–1961), Piccadilly Circus Waterloo Place 19th century computing pioneer who The famous actor and one of Reformer of hospital nursing during was responsible for detailing the first Hollywood’s first Asian-American the 19th century by introducing computer program. stars of silent movies. improved sanitation. 7 Dorothy Hodgkin (1910–1994) and 14 At the wax-workshop: Patience Elsie Widdowson (1906–2000), Lovell Wright (1725–1786), Royal Society St James’s Square The first and only woman to win the Famous wax sculptor who produced Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Adviser for portraits out of wax before the government on WWII rationing. Madame Tussaud. npg.org.uk/walkingtours Kindly supported by: #NationalPortraitGallery #CHANELCultureFund .