We have written elsewhere about women’s involvement in the editorial processes of the Royal Society (see Rostvik & Fyfe, 2018), but what about women as authors?
There was no rule explicitly preventing women from submitting papers to the Royal Society, as long as they (like any other non-fellow) could find a fellow of the Society to ‘communicate’ it on their behalf. (On women at the Royal Society, see Patricia Fara’s essay.)