Eleanor of Aquitaine
Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the most influential figures of the Middle Ages. She has been called the ‘Grandmother of Europe’ due to many of her descendants becoming kings, queens or empresses.
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Rosa Jane Pelly
Jane Pelly was a well respected and influential educator, chiefly in Nigeria, throughout the second half of the twentieth century
Henrietta Lear
A remarkable Victorian lady, Henrietta was a prolific writer of religious lives
Jane Hazel
Mrs Jane Hazel and the Alderbury Ferry (1843-1920) the index photo was taken around 1917 and shows Mrs Hazel in her long dress and cap
Helen Maurice Bagnall
Miss Helen Bagnall was a teacher at Godolphin School and a suffragist
Saint Edith of Wilton
Edith was a princess and one of the most venerated female saints of England.
Eleanor Warre
A talented designer and painter of Church Art, including stained glass windows, whose designs are still found in Churches in Salisbury today
Frances Child
A spinster gentlewoman of modest means had few opportunities in the Victorian era to supplement her income, became a popular author & story teller
Sarah Windsor Tomlinson
Sarahwas a British author of notable 19th Century books such as ‘First Steps in General Knowledge’
Eleanor Bryant
Eleanor Bryant was a businesswoman who took over her late husband’s bricklaying business and ran it for 17 years.
Maria Smith
Maria Smith née Meatyard was a butcher with premises in Salisbury’s Butcher’s Row
