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Isabel Cooper-Oakley (1854-1914)

20 August, 202129 August, 2021 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Isabel Cooper-Oakley's business activities have been overshadowed by her involvement in Theosophism.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged Girton, restaurants, retail, suffragist, university

Agnes Garrett (1845-1935)

4 July, 202127 November, 2022 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Together with her cousin, Rhoda, Agnes Garrett helped opened up interior design as a career for women.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged clubs, interior decoration, suffragist

Lena Ashwell (1869-1957)

25 May, 202126 August, 2021 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Lena Ashwell's belief in the power of theatre took her to the battlefields of France and the swimming pools of East London.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged First World War, married women, suffragist, theatre, Women's Tax Resistance League

Amy Bell (1859-1920)

1 May, 202127 June, 2023 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Women were only allowed onto the floor of the London Stock Exchange in 1973, nearly 90 years after Amy Bell started work as a stockbroker.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged F.D. Maurice, Margaret Bateson, stockbroking, suffragist

Emma Paterson (1848-1886)

10 April, 202129 August, 2024 Lizzie BLeave a comment

Emma Paterson had a short life but the organisations she started had long ones.

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged banking, printing, suffragist, trade union

Emma Cons (1838-1912)

28 January, 202113 February, 2025 Lizzie B5 Comments

Emma Cons was the founder of Old Vic Theatre but this was only one of her many contributions to British society. How well do we really know her?

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged education, F.D. Maurice, horticulture, housing, suffragist, temperance, theatre

Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932)

11 December, 20205 December, 2024 Lizzie B1 Comment

There is much more to Gertrude Jekyll than muddy boots and beautiful borders

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged gardening, horticulture, photography, suffragist

Louisa Thomson-Price (1864-1926)

9 December, 20205 December, 2024 Lizzie B2 Comments

Shareholder meetings were more lively when Louisa Thomson Price turned up

Posted in FT-She 100, Women in BusinessTagged editor, journalist, suffragist, Women's Tax Resistance League

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