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Born into one of Swansea’s most distinguished families, Amy Dillwyn (1845–1935) was a Welsh novelist who tackled complex class issues in her works. Following the deaths of her brother in 1890 and her father in 1892, Dillwyn inherited her father’s bankrupt business and, employing an aggressive management style, restored it to prosperity. In this biography, based largely on Dillwyn’s diaries, David Painting sheds light on this extraordinary woman of exceptional spirit and personality, revealing her to be not just a pioneering female British industrialist and novelist but also an ardent proponent of social justice.

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Table of Contents
Foreword to the New Edition
Preface to the New Edition
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Selected Reading
Royal Prologue
Family Background
Early Years at Parkwern and Hendrefoilan
Debut into Society
Picking up the Threads
Mistress of Hendrefoilan
Charity begins at Killay
Society and Suitors
Moral Amazons
Amy in the Literary World
Catastrophe and Salvation
The Celebrity
Grand Old Lady
Epilogue
Index
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