Lady Charlotte Guest
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Lady Charlotte Guest

The Exceptional Life of a Female Industrialist

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The Exceptional Life of a Female Industrialist

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The remarkable biography of a mother of ten who stepped up to run her late husband's ironworks in Victorian Wales. When impoverished aristocrat Lady Charlotte Bertie married wealthy Welsh ironmaster John Guest of Dowlais in 1833, her relatives looked on with dismay. Yet despite their vast difference of background and age, over their nineteen-year long marriage husband and wife enjoyed great happiness and much adventure. There would be ten children, and while John built up an immense commercial empire, Charlotte championed Welsh culture. Crucially, she taught herself John's business from the inside. Over the years, she made the keenest observation of iron production, the fluctuations of the trade, and the engineering innovations. When John died in 1852, she was therefore uniquely placed to succeed him as head of the works—a remarkable position for a Victorian woman. She endeavored to introduce reforms, but also—rather to her dismay—had to weather a potentially destructive strike. But success came at a price. With her star seemingly in the ascendant, Lady Charlotte suddenly chose to abandon all, leave Wales, and marry her sons' tutor. This book traces the ardent, creative years of her first marriage, explores her determination to preserve John's legacy as a widow, and observes her growing devotion to the scholarly Charles Schreiber.

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Publisher
Pen & Sword History
Year
2020
ISBN
9781526768827
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter One The Marriage
  9. Chapter Two Unknown Country
  10. Chapter Three The Hot Blast
  11. Chapter Four A Fortune for the Babies
  12. Chapter Five Birth, Death, Inheritance and the Electors of Glamorgan
  13. Chapter Six Reaching an Eminence: the Mabinogion
  14. Chapter Seven Lord Bute and the Dowlais Lease
  15. Chapter Eight Edward Hutchins
  16. Chapter Nine A Good Death
  17. Chapter Ten The Ironmaster
  18. Chapter Eleven ‘…the right on our side’: The Strike of 1853
  19. Chapter Twelve Lady Charlotte Guest and Charles Schreiber
  20. Appendix
  21. Notes
  22. Bibliography
  23. Plate section