Amy Dillwyn was a writer and social activist as well as a pioneering industralist.
Amy Dillwyn (1845-1935)
Category: Women in Business
Mary Field (1896-1968)
Mary Field is one of the earliest and least-well known of Britain's women film-makers.
Annette Ashberry (1894-1990)
Atalanta was a pioneering engineering firm run and staffed by women and led by Annette Ashberry
Yevonde Middleton (1893-1975)
Yevonde's innovative colour work in the 1930s shook up the world of portrait photography.
Cleone Griff (1880-1963)
Cleone Benest had multiple engineering interests as well as multiple names.
Hester Parnall (1868-1939)
Hester Parnall brewed up business success in Cornwall.
Irene Barclay (1894-1989)
Irene Barclay was the first woman in Britain to qualify as a Chartered Surveyor.
Octavia Hill (1838-1912)
Octavia Hill may be a name from the past but she lies behind many organisations operating today.
Alice Cornwell (1852-1932)
Alice Cornwell owned a national newspaper but it is her own story that is newsworthy.
Mary Petherbridge (1870-1940)
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.
Women Who Meant Business 