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...