| GODWIN | William -; philosopher and novelist whose first wife Mary Wollstonecraft was the mother of Mary Shelley, his daughter (6) |
| WAUGH | Novelist whose first wife had the same first name, curiously |
| JOAN | Known as the Fair Maid of Kent, the forename of the wife of Edward the Black Prince who was the mother of Richard II (4) |
| GUISE | Mary of ---, queen consort of James V of Scotland and mother of Mary, Queen of Scots (5) |
| ANNEHYDE | First wife of James II of England and mother of Mary II and Queen Anne (4,4) |
| TOLKIEN | Surname of the philologist and novelist whose works include The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings (7) |
| MARY | --- of Guise, queen consort of James V of Scotland and mother of Mary, Queen of Scots (4) |
| LEDA | In Greek mythology, a queen of Sparta who was the mother of Helen and Pollux by Zeus, who visited her in the form of a swan |
| IGRAINE | In Arthurian romances, which wife of Gorlois, Duke of Tintagel, was the mother of Arthur, marrying his father, Uther Pendragon, a day after Gorlois was slain? (7) |
| LIVIA | Wife and counsellor of Augustus who was the mother of Tiberius (5) |
| SHELLEY | Romantic poet whose second elopement was with the future Frankenstein author, nee Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (7) |
| WOODVILLE | Maiden name of Edward IV's "White Queen" written about by Philippa Gregory who was the mother of 12 children including the Princes in the Tower (9) |
| ELEANOR | ___ of Aquitaine was the mother of king Richard I of England (7) |
| ALICE | Princess of Battenberg who was the mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (5) |
| MAIA | One of the seven Pleiades who was the mother of Hermes (4) |
| ANNE | Christian saint who was the mother of the Virgin Mary; feast day, 26 July (4) |
| ADMIRAL | Which artist, included in the Peggy Guggenheim collection, was the mother of the actor Robert De Niro? (7) |
| SARTRE | Jean-Paul -; existentialist philosopher and novelist who wrote Nausea and The Roads to Freedom series including The Age of Reason (6) |
| PARR | Catherine -; sixth and last wife of Henry VIII, mother of Mary Seymour (4) |
| CLAIRE | Acclaimed biographer of Samuel Pepys, Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft. (6,7) |
