70 out of 100 entries complete
Aerospace & Defence
Hilda Hewlett (1864-1943) Pilot and aircraft manufacturer
Construction
Gertrude Leverkus (1898-1989) Architect
Laura Annie Willson (1877-1942) House builder
General Financial
Louisa Thomson-Price (1864-1926) Shareholder activist
Electricals
Caroline Haslett (1895-1957) Electrical engineer
Margaret Partridge (1891-1967) Electrical engineer
Engineering
Annette Ashbery (1894-1990) Founder of Atalanta Engineering
Cleone Griff (1880-1963) Engineer
Financial Services
Amy Bell (1859-1920) Stockbroker
Beatrice Gordon Holmes (1884-1951) Stockbroker
Food & Beverage
Ella Gasking (1891-1966) Chair of Batchelor’s
Gina MacKinnon (1884-1973) Chair of Drambuie
Hester Parnall (1868-1939) Chair of St Austell Brewery
Household Goods
Dorothy Cottington Taylor (1891-1944) Director of the Good Housekeeping Institute
Marion Dorn (1896-1964) Textiles
Agnes Garrett (1845-1935) Interior designer with her cousin, Rhoda Garrett
Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) Garden designer
Betty Joel (1894-1985) Furniture and interior designer
Syrie Maugham (1879-1955) Interior designer
May Morris (1862-1938) Textiles
Constance Spry (1886-1960) Floral decorator
Industrials
Amy Dillwyn (1845-1935) Spelter Works owner
Media
Margaret Bateson (1860-1938) Journalist
Christina Broom (1862-1939) Photographer and postcard maker
Olive Edis (1876-1955) Photographer
Mary Field (1896-1968) Documentary film-maker
Margaret Havinden (1895-1974) Advertising executive
Alice Head (1886-1981) Magazine editor
Alice Hughes (1857-1939) Photographer
Marion Jean Lyon (1885-1940) Advertising executive
Anne Meerloo (1889-1927) Advertising executive
Yevonde Middleton (1893-1975) Photographer
Henrietta Müller (1845/6 – 1906) Newspaper proprietor
Nancy Pearn (1892-1950) Literary agent
Lotte Reiniger (1899-1981) Film-maker and artist
Margaret, Lady Rhondda (1883-1958) Magazine owner
Ethel Wilson (1876-1959) Advertising executive
Ethel M. Wood (1877-1970) Advertising executive
Mining
Alice Cornwell (1852-1932) Gold mining entrepreneur
Real Estate
Irene Barclay (1894-1989) Chartered Surveyor
Octavia Hill (1838-1912) Social housing pioneer
Retail
Evelyn Barlow (1880-1962) Auctioneer
Lucy Duff Gordon (1863-1935) Designer and dress maker
Louise Jopling (1843-1933) Painter and art school founder
Hilda Leyel (1880-1957) Fund-raiser and founder of Culpeper
Ada Nettleship (1856-1932) Designer and dress maker
Elspeth Phelps (1876-1968) Designer and dress maker
Lucy Wertheim (1883-1971) Art gallery owner
Support Services
Ethel Ayres Purdie (1874-1923) Accounting services
Nancy Bailey (1860-1913) Indexing sevices
Gladys Burlton (1890-1965) Consulting
Helen Cox (1860-1930) Accounting services
Cecil Gradwell (1855-1942) Secretarial and accounting services
Mary Harris Smith (1844-1934) Accounting services
Emma Paterson (1848-1886) Printing services
Mary Petherbridge (1870-1940) Indexing and secretarial services
Ethel Watts (1895-1963) Accounting services
Technology
Dora Metcalf (1892-1982) Information services
Travel & Leisure
Lena Ashwell (1869-1957) Actor and producer
Amy Ashwood Garvey (1897-1969) Activist and entrepreneur
Maud Carpenter (1892-1967) Theatre manager
Isabel Cooper-Oakley (1854-1914) Restaurant owner and retailer
Emma Cons (1838-1912) Coffee shop owner
Kate Cranston (1849-1934) Tea shop owner
Helen Lenoir (1852-1913) Theatre manager
Kate Meyrick (1875-1933) Nightclub owner
Helen Vernet (1875/6-1956) Book-maker
Norah Wilmot (1889-1980) Racehorse trainer
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