Henrietta was chief editor of Chronicle of Britain and Ireland and Reader’s Digest Illustrated Guide to Britain’s Coast. Her biography of the great Victorian inventor and industrialist William Armstrong, Magician of the North, was shortlisted for the H. W. Fisher Best First Biography Prize and the Portico Prize for non-fiction.
Introduction
1 Leading Ladies
2 A Brilliant Inheritance
3 Fires of Ambition
4 A New Dawn
5 Seeds of Revolution
6 Virgin Huntresses
7 Political Longings
8 Good Times and Bad Times
9 The All-Electric Home
10 Conquest of the Air
11 Conflicts and Dreams
12 Jagged Abnormalities
13 A Defence of Provocation
Afterword by Dawn Childs
Milestones for Women
Notes
Acknowledgements
Index
Supporters
