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 WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS  OF SUSSEX (1849-1918)

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Eliza Constable (born 1807, Brasted) - the niece of Brighton's first photographer William Constable (1783-1861). Eliza took over the running of Constable's studio when he died in 1861.

To read an account of Eliza Constable's photographic career - click on the link below:

Eliza Constable

Lady Frances Elizabeth Jocelyn (1820-1880) - In the 1861 census of Hastings, Viscountess Fanny Jocelyn, residing at White Rock Villa, Hastings, gave her occupation as "Photographer".

To read an account of Lady Fanny Jocelyn's life and her interest in photography - click on the link below:

Lady Frances Elizabeth Jocelyn

Miss Marie Bertin (born c1855, France) - the daughter of Monsieur Louis Bertin, a fashionable Brighton photographer, Marie Bertin operated her own photographic portrait studio at 42a Cannon Place between 1885 and 1889.
To read an account of Marie Bertin's photographic career - click on the link below:

Miss Marie Bertin

 

 

 

Mrs Hannah Wright (1854-1932) -  the wife of a brewery worker and the mother of ten children, earned her living as a photographer in Brighton during the late 1880s and early 1890s.

 
To read an account of Mrs Hannah Wright's photographic career - click on the link below:

Mrs Hannah Wright, Brighton Photographer

 

   
 

index of women PHOTOGRAPHERS  AND PHOTOGRAPHIC WORKERS in SUSSEX 1849-1918

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INDEPENDENT WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS AND FEMALE STUDIO PROPRIETORS IN SUSSEX  1849-1918

 

1849-1870

Women Photographers 1849-1870

Mrs Catherine Barrett  (born 1835) -  Bognor [active c1863]

Elizabeth Dorothy Burnell (born 1832) -  Brighton [active 1857]

Mrs Margaret Case (born c1832) - Lewes [active 1863-65]

Eliza Constable (1807-1873) & Caroline Constable (1803-1883) - Brighton [active 1850-1865]

Mrs Elizabeth Cowdrey (born c1822) - Brighton [active 1861-1870]

Miss Faithfull (born ? ) -  Brighton [active c1867]

Annette Fox (born c1844) & Blanche Fox (born c1846) - Worthing [active 1866-1870]

Lady Frances Elizabeth Jocelyn (1820-1880) - St Leonards [1858-1868]

Mrs Maria King (born c1828) - St Leonards [active 1850-1851]

Mrs Rebecca Lavis (born 1828-1900) - Eastbourne  [active 1866-1881]

Mrs Sarah Lowenthal (born c1815) -  Brighton [active c1856]

Maria Polyblank (c1832-1914) - Brighton [active c1861]

Sophia Prideaux (born c1838) - Brighton [1861-1865]

Sarah Parkes (born c1831) - Hastings [1861-1871]

Ruth Ruff (c1826-1906) Brighton - [1861-71]

Mrs Agnes Ruge (1814-1899)  -  Brighton [active c1854]

1871-1890

Women Photographers 1871-1890

 

Mrs Elizabeth Bayfield (born c1835) Horsham [1881-1882]

Miss Marie Bertin (born c1855) Brighton [1881-1889]

Mrs Eliza Hawkins (c1828-1887) Brighton [1871-1887]

Mrs Rebecca Lavis (born 1828-1900) - Eastbourne  [active 1866-1881]

Mrs Mary Ann Melville (born 1843) - East Grinstead  [active 1878-1886]

Mdme Rivers (born ?) Brighton [active c1889]

Mrs Sophia Rogerson (born c1839) Hastings [active 1889-1893]

Mrs Rosetta Walls / Mrs Hunt (1835-1885) Brighton [1874-1885]

Mrs Jane Whiteman (born c1835) - Hastings [active 1876 -1884]

Mrs Ellen Wilson (born ?) - Eastbourne  [active c1885]

[ABOVE] Portrait of a woman by Miss Constable of Brighton (c1864). After William Constable, Brighton's first photographer died in 1861, his photographic studio at 58 King's Road, Brighton was run by his two nieces - Eliza and Caroline Constable. [ABOVE] Portrait of a young woman by Mrs Case of Lewes (c1865). Mrs Margaret Case, the wife of amateur photographer John Thomas Case, operated a photographic portrait studio at St Anne's Terrace, Lewes in 1865. [ABOVE] Portrait of a woman holding a book, photographed at the studio of W.Walls of Brighton (c1877). After William Walls died in 1873, Walls' studio in Brighton's Kensington Place was operated by his widow, Mrs Rosetta Jane Walls. [ABOVE] Portrait of a woman, photographed at Hawkins' Brighton studio (c1884). The proprietor of the Hawkins studio was Mrs Eliza Hawkins, the widow of Charles Hawkins (1826-1871) who had established the Brighton studio in the early 1860s.

Mrs Eliza Bristow (1854-1932) -  the wife of Worthing photographer Walter C. Bristow, Mrs Bristow took over the running of her husband's photographic studio after his death in 1896.

To read an account of Mrs Eliza Bristow's photographic career - click on the link below:

Mrs Eliza Bristow of Worthing

[ABOVE] Portrait of a woman reading by Lois Girling of Brighton (c1895)

1891-1900

Women Photographers 1891-1900

Mrs Matilda Aubrey (born c1851) Horsham [active 1894-1905]

Madame Blanche (born ?) Brighton [active c1892]

Mrs Eliza Bristow (1854-1932) - Worthing  [active 1895-1911]

Mrs Margaret Cartwright (born c1838) Brighton [active 1899-1901]

Mrs Keturah Collings (c1862) Brighton [active1891-1900]

Mrs Emily Dynham (born c1843) Eastbourne [active 1894-1898]

Mrs Annie Gardiner (born c1865) - Worthing  [active 1893-1930s]

Lois Girling (born c1855) Brighton [active 1881-1905]

Mrs Agnes Malby (born 1860 ) Chichester [active 1892-1894]

Elizabeth Zilpha Mentor (born 1861) Proprietor of E. Mentor & Co. Brighton [active 1898-1900]

Mrs Alice Passingham (born c1842) - Brighton [active 1889-1895]

Miss Jenny Rewman (born 1855) - Worthing  [active 1899-1907]

Mrs Sophia Rogerson (born c1839) Hastings [active 1889-1893]

Mrs Flora Verrall (born 1867) - Hastings [active 1899-1908]

Mrs Hannah Wright (1854-1932) Brighton [1891-1895 ]

[ABOVE] Portrait of a woman by Sophia Rogerson of St Leonards (c1892)

[ABOVE] Trade Plate of Mrs Sophia Rogerson of St Leonards (c1892)

To read an account of Mrs Sophia Rogerson's photographic career - click on the link below:

Mrs Sophia Rogerson

 
1901-1918
Women Photographers 1901-1918

Alice Armstrong (born c1876) Bexhill [active 1915-18]

Mrs Matilda Aubrey (born c1851) Horsham [active 1894-1905]

Miss Mary Atkinson  (born 1854) Hastings [active c1907]

Mdme Marie Baum (born c1854) Brighton [active 1905-1909]

Mrs Eliza Bristow (1854-1932) - Worthing  [active 1895-1911]

Mrs Lela Chell (1871-1937) Hailsham [active 1898-1911]

 

 

 

THE COZE SISTERS Easebourne

Edith Eliza de la Coze (born 1881) Easebourne [active c1901]

Lydia Alice de la Coze (born 1879) Easebourne [active c1901]

Rosetta (Rose) de la Coze (born 1874) Easebourne [active c1901]

Miss Coze  Petworth [active 1908-1914]

 

Hannah Cross (born c1868) Hastings [active 1910-1911]

Miss J. Davison  (born ?) Chichester [active c1907]

Mrs Alicia Foulkes (born c1852) Brighton [active 1905-1907]

Mrs Annie Gardiner (born c1865) - Worthing  [active 1893-1930s]

Mrs M. Gill (born ?) Eastbourne [active 1907-1909]

Lois Girling (born c1855) Brighton [active 1881-1905]

Mrs Constance Selena Goodchild (born c1874) Brighton [active 1909-1910]

Mrs B. H. Hawgood (born ?) Hastings [active c1904]

Mrs Ellen Jacklett (born c1853) Bexhill [active 1903-1905]

Miss A. Jennings  (born ?) Pulborough [active c1911]

Mrs E. Jordan (born ?) - Worthing  [active c1911]

 

 

Mrs Patter Lawrence (born 1871) - Burgess Hill [active 1901-1903]

Mrs Morgan (born ?) - Littlehampton  [active c1911]

Miss Norman (born c1851) - Brighton [active 1902-1904]

Frances Pannell (born c1851) - Brighton [active 1901]

Mrs Ann Pestel (born 1869) - Eastbourne [active 1901-1910]

Mrs Hortense Plummer (born ?) - Hastings [active c1911]

Mrs Maud Reardon (born c1875) - Midhurst [active 1905-1907]

Jenny Rewman (born 1855) - Worthing  [active 1899-1907]

Mrs Mary H. Russell  (born 1841) Chichester [active 1907-1911]

Mrs Annie Sanderson (born c1844) Eastbourne [active 1901-1909]

Mrs Ada Schofield (born c1860) Brighton [active 1909-1924]

Miss Edith Spiers (born c1851) - Brighton [active 1911-1918]

Florence Stewart (born 1854) - Worthing  [active 1901-1907]

Miss Letitia Tiddeman (born 1845) Hastings [active 1904-1905]

Mrs Margaret Tennant (born ?) Aldrington [active 1902-1904]

Mrs Annie Martha Thatcher (born 1863) Brighton [active c1901]

Mrs Veness (born ?) Hastings [active c1903]

Mrs Flora Verrall (born 1867) - Hastings [active 1899-1908]

Miss Clara Wivil (born 1857) - Lancing  [active c1901]

 
[ABOVE] Portrait of a woman taken at the studio of the Worthing Portrait Company, operated by Miss Jenny Rewman and Miss Florence Stewart in the early 1900s. [ABOVE] Portrait of a woman by Madame Annie Sanderson of Eastbourne (c1907).

 

[ABOVE] Portrait of a woman by Mrs Ann Pestel of Eastbourne (c1908). Mrs Pestel took over the running of the studio at 48 Terminus Road, Eastbourne after her photographer husband Arthur Pestel died in 1900. [ABOVE] A postcard portrait by Miss Alice Armstrong of Bexhill (c1917)

 

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