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Month: August 2021

Ethel Wilson (1876-1959)

27 August, 202111 April, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Ethel Wilson was a pioneer in the world of advertising but it is her fund-raising efforts that are still benefiting people today.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged advertising, clubs, WACL

Ethel Ayres Purdie (1874-1923)

26 August, 202125 November, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Ethel Ayres Purdie was the first woman to be accepted into a British professional accounting body.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged accountancy, Women's Tax Resistance League

Isabel Cooper-Oakley (1854-1914)

20 August, 202129 August, 2021 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Isabel Cooper-Oakley's business activities have been overshadowed by her involvement in Theosophism.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged Girton, restaurants, retail, suffragist, university

Henrietta Müller (1845/6-1906)

8 August, 202129 August, 2021 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Henrietta Muller set up the first newspaper owned, written, edited and printed by women

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged clubs, editor, education, Girton, journalist, suffagist, university, Women's Tax Resistance League

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