London based Arsenal Football Club has developed a strong following since its founding in 1886. Since the 1980s, Arsenal's fans have often been referred to as Gooners, a derivation from the team's nickname, the "Gunners".
This table compares six eighteenth-century collections of notable women: George Ballard's Memoirs of several ladies of Great Britain (1752), [2 ] John Duncombe's The Feminead (1754), [3 ] the Biographium Faemineum (Anon., 1766), [4 ] Mary…