Unsung Women in Somerset: From the Editing Floor

In this article, I’m going to share with you some women from the editing floor of Unsung Women in Somerset (available from https://books2read.com/unsung). They didn’t quite make it into the book for various reasons ¬– if I’d included all the interesting 19th–20th-century women I found, for instance, the book would’ve never ended — but they deserve recognition all the same.

Let’s dive straight in, going more or less in chronological order.

Margaret Beaufort (31st May 1443–29th June 1509)
The formidable mother of Henry VII…