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Title:The Interwar Period and Beyond
Source:CHEMISTRY WAS THEIR LIFE
Pioneering British Women Chemists, 1880-1949
(pp 471-528)
Author(s):Marelene Rayner-Canham
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Geoff Rayner-Canham
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

Abstract:The following sections are included:
  • The Interwar Period
    • Life for Women Students
    • The Employment of Women
    • The Employability of Women Chemists
    • The Woman ‘Super-Chemist’ as Negative Role Model
  • Women Chemists in Teaching Careers
    • Hazel Reason
    • Hilda Hartle
    • Peggy Lunam (Mrs. Edge)
    • Frances Burdett
  • Women in Chemical Industry
    • The Employability of Women Chemists
    • Kathleen Culhane (Mrs. Lathbury)
  • Women Chemists in the Food Industry
    • Ethel Beeching
    • Mamie Olliver
    • Winifred Adams
    • Enid Bradford (Mrs. Bentley)
  • Women Chemists in Biomedical Laboratories
    • Katherine Coward
    • Winifred (Freda) Wright
    • Mollie Barr
    • Elsie Widdowson
  • Women Chemists in the Photographic Industry
    • Frances Hamer
    • Nellie Fisher
  • Women Chemists in Other Research Laboratories
    • Rona Robinson
    • Edith Pawsey (Mrs. Murch)
    • Gwenyth Gell and Mavis Gell (Mrs. Tiller)
  • Women Chemists as Scientific Librarians and Indexers
    • Enid Pope (Mrs. Hulsken)
    • Margaret Dougal
    • Margaret Le Pla
    • Margaret Whetham (Mrs. Anderson)
  • Women Chemists as Factory Inspectors
    • Dorothy Fox (Mrs. Richards)
  • Women Chemists in the 1940s
    • Life for Women Students
    • Employment of Women Chemists in the Second World War
    • Jessie Mole
    • Vera Furness
    • Elizabeth Frith (Mrs. Tuckett)
    • Antoinette (Tony) Patey (Mrs. Pirie)
    • Patricia Green (Mrs. Clarke)
  • The Late- and After-Career of Some Women Chemists
  • Commentary
  • Notes
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