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Lady Charlotte Guest: The Exceptional Life of a Female Industrialist

Lady Charlotte Guest: The Exceptional Life of a Female Industrialist

Owens, Victoria

Paperback

Series: Trailblazing Women

Business BiographiesBiographies GeneralGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $38.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 30, 2026

ISBN10: 1526799669
ISBN13: 9781526799661
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Published: Nov 30 2026
Pages: 224
Language: English
Aristocrat Lady Charlotte Bertie navigated a surprising and adventurous life marked by familiar disapproval, business acumen, and a transformative second marriage leaving behind a legacy of industrial innovation and personal reinvention.

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 that touched upon its developments. When John died in 1852, she was therefore uniquely well-placed to succeed him as head of the works - a remarkable position for a Victorian woman. Not only did she endeavour 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 to all sight 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 - widowed - to preserve John's legacy, and observes her growing devotion to the scholarly Charles Schreiber.

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