Edith Olivier
Author, pillar of the community and hostess to the Bright Young Things, Edith had an exceptional life
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Sarah Rogers, Louisa Potto & Martha Best
Female innkeepers & publicans of Salisbury from 1760
Margery Sharp
Margery Sharp was the best-selling writer, playwright and screenwriter of adult and children’s whimsical fiction who inspired the box office busting Disney film ‘The Rescuers’.
Jane Collier
Jane Collier was one of the first women satirists in England. She was born in Steeple Langford near Salisbury in 1715.
Charlotte Tinney
Charlotte Tinney, a gentlewoman and proprietor of houses, was a prominent philanthropist in nineteenth century Salisbury.
Elizabeth Harris
Much has been written about Elizabeth Harris but no account of women who played a key role in the history of Salisbury would be complete without her.
Joyce Howard Barrell
Joyce was a musician and composer who specialised in writing music for children
Florence Nightingale
Nursing pioneer, polymath, statistician and social justice campaigner
Adeline Cable
Adeline Cable (1864-1944) best known for her work as a matron at Salisbury Infirmary during the First World War. Adeline Elizabeth Cable was born in
Dora Robertson
Dora Robertson impacted on the history of Salisbury in two ways: by helping to secure the future of the Choristers School when it faced financial collapse in the 1920s, and by writing the first history of the Cathedral Close, a work still used as a standard reference work by historians today
