Little trace now remains of Irene Manby's interwar accommodation business that housed thousands of women.
Irene Manby (1882-1963)
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Mary Field (1896-1968)
Mary Field is one of the earliest and least-well known of Britain's women film-makers.
Irene Barclay (1894-1989)
Irene Barclay was the first woman in Britain to qualify as a Chartered Surveyor.
Maud Carpenter (1892-1967)
Maud Carpenter ran the Liverpool Playhouse for nearly forty years and became a local legend.
Mary Harris Smith (1844-1934)
Twenty five years after she started her fight, Mary Harris Smith finally received the professional accreditation she deserved.
Laura Annie Willson (1877-1942)
Laura Annie Willson: suffragette, house builder, engineer and the original northern powerhouse.
Beatrice Gordon Holmes (1884-1951)
Beatrice Gordon Holmes was a self-made millionaire and quite a girl.
Elspeth Phelps (1876-1968)
Elspeth Phelps may be largely forgotten now but she had a knack for making news
Women Who Meant Business 