Why is information about mediocre eighteenth-century actor Alexander Pope (1762-1835) so readily available? And why does his information dictate what we know about his more talented wives, Elizabeth Younge (1740-1797) and Maria Ann Campion (1777-1803)? Good Women, Mediocre Men: Hierarchy in Narrative and Gendered Prosopography explores how the gendered assumptions embedded in historical biographies continue to condition 21st century digital scholarship.