Syrie Maugham was a trend-setting designer who showed that business life can begin at 40.
Syrie Maugham (1879-1955)
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Ethel Wilson (1877-1959)
Ethel Wilson was a pioneer in the world of advertising but it is her fund-raising efforts that are still benefiting people today.
Ethel Ayres Purdie (1874-1923)
Ethel Ayres Purdie was the first woman to be accepted into a British professional accounting body.
Isabel Cooper-Oakley (1854-1914)
Isabel Cooper-Oakley's business activities have been overshadowed by her involvement in Theosophism.
Henrietta Müller (1845/6-1906)
Henrietta Muller set up the first newspaper owned, written, edited and printed by women
Agnes Garrett (1845-1935)
Together with her cousin, Rhoda, Agnes Garrett helped opened up interior design as a career for women.
Kate Meyrick (1875-1933)
Kate Meyrick reigned over a nightclub empire in the 1920s, breaking the law and making her own long-lasting mythology.
Hilda Leyel (1880-1957)
Hilda Leyel founded Culpeper's as well as changing the way we cook and raise money for charity. Her influence is widely-felt but her name is little-known.
Louise Jopling (1843-1933)
Louise Jopling's School of Art expanded her own horizons as well as those of her pupils.
Hilda Hewlett (1864-1943)
Hilda Hewlett was the first woman in Britain to get her pilot's licence but it is for making planes as well as flying them that she should be known.
