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Author: Lizzie B

Hester Parnall (1868-1939)

22 December, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Hester Parnall brewed up business success in Cornwall.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in Business

Working Girls on Film

5 December, 20225 December, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

How did working women fare on the big screen before 1970?

Posted in Women in Society

Irene Barclay (1894-1989)

4 December, 20224 December, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Irene Barclay was the first woman in Britain to qualify as a Chartered Surveyor.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged Bedford College, housing, soroptimist

Octavia Hill (1838-1912)

27 November, 20224 December, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Octavia Hill may be a name from the past but she lies behind many organisations operating today.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged F.D. Maurice, housing

Women against the vote

23 November, 202227 November, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

The pro-suffrage movement gets plenty of coverage but a surprising. number of women were anti-suffrage: what is their story?

Posted in Women in SocietyTagged suffragette, suffragist

Alice Cornwell (1852-1932)

30 October, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Alice Cornwell owned a national newspaper but it is her own story that is newsworthy.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in Business

Mary Petherbridge (1870-1940)

20 October, 202224 November, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Mary Petherbridge started her career in a sector where women were poorly paid and found it hard to progress. 125 years later, little has changed.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged Good Housekeeping, Margaret Bateson, university

Gertrude Leverkus (1898-1989)

29 September, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Gertrude Leverkus was a pioneering architect who provided housing for other working women

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged Women's Provisional Club

Margaret Bateson (1860-1938)

24 September, 202225 September, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Margaret Bateson was a journalist who gave voice to the work of women

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged cambridge, suffragist

Maud Carpenter (1892-1967)

18 August, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Maud Carpenter ran the Liverpool Playhouse for nearly forty years and became a local legend.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged soroptimist, theatre

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