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Amy Dillwyn (1845-1935)

29 March, 2023 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Amy Dillwyn was a writer and social activist as well as a pioneering industralist.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged suffragist

Mary Field (1896-1968)

8 March, 2023 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Mary Field is one of the earliest and least-well known of Britain's women film-makers.

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

Annette Ashberry (1894-1990)

26 January, 2023 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Atalanta was a pioneering engineering firm run and staffed by women and led by Annette Ashberry

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged horticulture, Women's Engineering Society

Yevonde Middleton (1893-1975)

25 January, 202326 January, 2023 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Yevonde's innovative colour work in the 1930s shook up the world of portrait photography.

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

Cleone Griff (1880-1963)

8 January, 2023 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Cleone Benest had multiple engineering interests as well as multiple names.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged Good Housekeeping, Women's Engineering Society

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

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

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

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