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She exhibited her work at the Society of Artists. In 1774, she showed five pieces:

A chimney piece, in artificial stone, for a nobleman's hall. From a design of Mr. Johnson's.

A vestal and pedestal; in artificial stone.

A sybyl in artificial stone.

A statue and pedestal for a candelabrum.

A tripod.

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Eleanor Coade[a] (3 June 1733 – 18 November 1821)[1][b] was a British businesswoman known for manufacturing Neoclassical statues, architectural decorations and garden ornaments made of Lithodipyra (Coade stone) for over 50 years from 1769 until her death. 

Lithodipyra ("stone fired twice") was a high-quality, durable moulded weather-resistant, ceramic stoneware; statues and decorative features from this still look almost new today. Coade did not invent 'artificial stone', as various inferior quality precursors had been both patented and manufactured over the previous forty years, but she probably perfected both the clay recipe and the firing process.

She combined high-quality manufacturing and artistic taste, together with entrepreneurial, business and marketing skills, to create the overwhelmingly successful stone products of her age. She produced stoneware for St George's Chapel, Windsor; The Royal Pavilion, Brighton; Carlton House, London and the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Shortly after her death, her company produced a large quantity of stoneware used in the refurbishment of Buckingham Palace.[1]

[4]Born in Exeter to two families of wool merchants and weavers, she ran her business, "Coade's Artificial Stone Manufactory", "Coade and Sealy" and latterly "Coade" (by appointment to George III and the Prince Regent), for fifty years in Lambeth, London. A devout Baptist, she died unmarried in Camberwell.

In 1784 an uncle, Samuel Coade, gave her Belmont House, a holiday villa in Lyme Regis, her late father's town of origin. She decorated the house extensively with Coade stone.[1][5]

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Eleanor Coade – Scientist of the Day

Eleanor Coade, an English manufacturer, was born June 3, 1733.

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John Robert Fowles was born on March, 31 1926. He was an English novelist of international renown, critically positioned between modernism and postmodernism. His work was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, among others.

After leaving Oxford University, Fowles taught English at a school on the Greek island of Spetses, a sojourn that inspired The Magus, an instant best-seller that was directly in tune with 1960s "hippy" anarchism and experimental philosophy. This was followed by The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969), a Victorian-era romance with a postmodern twist that was set in Lyme Regis, Dorset, where Fowles lived for much of his life. Later fictional works include The Ebony Tower, Daniel Martin, Mantissa, and A Maggot.

Fowles's books have been translated into many languages, and several have been adapted as films.

In late 1960, though he had already drafted The Magus, Fowles began working on The Collector. He finished his first draft of The Collector in a month, but spent more than a year making revisions before showing it to his agent. Michael S. Howard, the publisher at Jonathan Cape was enthusiastic about the manuscript. The book was published in 1963 and when the paperback rights were sold in the spring of that year, it was "probably the highest price that had hitherto been paid for a first novel," according to Howard. British reviewers found the novel to be an innovative thriller, but several American critics detected a serious promotion of existentialist thought.

The success of The Collector meant that Fowles could stop teaching and devote himself full-time to a literary career. Film rights to the book were optioned and it was adapted as a feature film of the same name in 1965. Against the advice of his publisher, Fowles insisted that his second published book be The Aristos, a non-fiction collection of philosophy essays. Afterward, he set about collating all the drafts he had written of what would become his most studied work, The Magus.

In 1965 Fowles left London, moving to Underhill, a farm on the fringes of Lyme Regis. Dorset. The isolated farm house became the model for The Dairy in the book Fowles was writing: The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969). Finding the farm too remote, as "total solitude gets a bit monotonous," Fowles remarked, in 1968 he and his wife moved to Belmont, in Lyme Regis. (Belmont was formerly owned by Eleanor Coade), which Fowles used as a setting for parts of The French Lieutenant's Woman. In this novel, Fowles created one of the most enigmatic female characters in literary history. His conception of femininity and myth of masculinity as developed in this text is psychoanalytically informed.

In the same year, he adapted The Magus for cinema, and the film was released in 1968. The film version of The Magus (1968) was generally considered awful; when Woody Allen was later asked whether he would make changes in his life if he had the opportunity to do it all over again, he jokingly replied he would do "everything exactly the same, with the exception of watching The Magus."

The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) was released to critical and popular success. It was translated into more than ten languages, and established Fowles' international reputation. It was adapted as a feature film in 1981 with a screenplay by the noted British playwright (and later Nobel laureate) Harold Pinter, and starring Meryl Streep and Jeremy Irons.

Fowles lived the rest of his life in Lyme Regis. His works The Ebony Tower (1974), Daniel Martin (1977), Mantissa (1981), and A Maggot (1985) were all written from Belmont House.

(1963) The Collector

(1964) The Aristos, essays

(1965) The Magus (revised 1977)

(1969) The French Lieutenant's Woman

(1973) Poems by John Fowles

(1974) The Ebony Tower

(1974) Shipwreck

(1977) Daniel Martin

(1978) Islands

(1979) The Tree

(1980) The Enigma of Stonehenge

(1982) A Short History of Lyme Regis

(1982) Mantissa

(1985) A Maggot

(1985) Land (with Fay Godwin)

(1990) Lyme Regis Camera

(1998) Wormholes - Essays and Occasional Writings

(2003) The Journals – Volume 1

(2006) The Journals – Volume 2

Fowles was named by The Times newspaper of UK as one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945.

In 1998, he was quoted in the New York Times Book Review as saying, "Being an atheist is a matter not of moral choice, but of human obligation."

Fowles composed a number of poems and short stories throughout his life, most of which were lost or destroyed. In December 1950 he wrote My Kingdom for a Corkscrew. For A Casebook (1955) was rejected by various magazines. In 1970 he wrote The Last Chapter.

In 1990, his first wife Elizabeth died of cancer, only a week after it was diagnosed. Her death affected him severely, and he did not write for a year. In 1998, Fowles married his second wife, Sarah Smith. With Sarah by his side, Fowles died of heart failure on 5 November 2005, aged 79, in Axminster Hospital, 5 miles (8.0 km) from Lyme Regis.

In 2008, Elena van Lieshout presented a series of 120 love letters and postcards for auction at Sotheby's. The correspondence started in 1990, when Fowles was aged 65. Elena, a young Welsh admirer and a student at St. Hilda's College, Oxford, contacted the reclusive author and they developed a sensitive, albeit unconsummated, relationship.

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Eleanor Coade- The Queen of Ceramic

Eleanor Coade- The Queen of Ceramic

Eleanor Coade (1733 – 1821) If you look at the above the front door of Wesley’s house you will see a frieze with a Vetruvian Scroll pattern running the along the whole width of the house.  This is made of Coadestone and its inventor was Eleanor Coade, a lady, who was not only a sculptor, but also understood the manufacturing processes and was able to run a successful business.  Wesley decided on…

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IMAGE SOURCE: Flickr (Jan. 28th, 2010)

Lyme Regis - Coade Stone Ammonites Artificial stone ammonites set into the ground outside Lyme Regis Museum. Ammonites are found along the Jurassic Coast here and artificial Coade Stone was developed by local businesswoman Eleanor Coade (1733-1821).

Fossil ammonite pavement in the town of Lyme Regis, Dorset, Great Britain.

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ABOUT THE BOOKThe Coade stone factory in London, which was active between 1769 and 1840, was owned and managed by Mrs Eleanor Coade, a remarkable Georgian businesswoman. Her firm produced all kinds of architectural ornaments and statues, which were used by the leading architects of the day for the embellishment of town and country houses and other important buildings. Coade stone was actually fired clay made using a special formula but it was marketed as 'artificial stone' since at that time stone was the preferred material for architectural decoration. This book charts the history of Coade stone, the techniques of production, the sculptors who provided designs, and the architects who used it. An illustrated gazetteer highlights many locations throughout Britain and Ireland where Coade stone can still be seen today. ABOUT THE AUTHORHans van Lemmen taught for many years at Leeds Metropolitan University and is an established author on the history of tiles and architectural ceramics and has lectured on the subject in Britain and elsewhere. Other titles for Shire by this author: Architectural CeramicsTiled FurnitureChurch Tiles of the Nineteenth Century, Delftware Tiles, Medieval TilesTwentieth Century TilesVictorian TilesCeramic Roofware

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I'm not sure if you're looking for more profiles of influential women in history, but if so, you might consider entrepreneur/philanthropist Eleanor Coade. Tumblr won't let me include the link, but Lady Carnarvon's blog from Feb. 5 has an article on her work.

Ooo! I’m always on the lookout for more amazing women to profile! Eleanor Coade sounds like a fascinating woman.

“Eleanor Coade (3 June 1733 – 16 November 1821) was a British businesswoman known for manufacturing Neoclassical statues, architectural decorations and garden ornaments made of "Lithodipyra" (Coade stone) for over 50 years from 1769 until her death. She should not be confused or conflated with her mother, also named Eleanor.”

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She developed her own formula for the stone, called Lithodipyra or Coade stone, a ceramic stoneware that could be poured into moulds and come out looking like carved stone. It was made of clay from the West Country (her family home was at Lyme Regis (mixed with flint, sand and glass, and fired twice at high temperatures.

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Female Inventors of the Industrial Revolution Part 1: Eleanor Coade

Out of my sample of 677 British innovators, there are only two women. There are various possible reasons for this. Perhaps more female-heavy industries are not typically included in grand narratives of the IR, which were used to construct my sample. Or perhaps contemporary sources did not take women seriously. Or maybe women did not generally have enough access to requisite training and education (more on that later).

So I'd like to highlight some female innovators. I was initially going to put them all into this post, but the more I wrote, the more I realised they deserve separate entries. So here goes:

Eleanor Coade (1733-1821) developed coade stone (or as she called it, Lithodipyra) in around 1770. 

You've almost certainly not heard of coade stone, yet you've very probably seen some! It's a sort of artificial stone, and was used in countless statues and building frontispieces, particularly around London and spa towns like Bath, but also internationally. Some of the more famous examples include the Southbank Lion on the Southern end of Westminster Bridge,* Nelson's Pediment at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, and the sculptural reliefs on Buckingham Palace, Brighton Pavilion, the original Twinings shop (still in use!) on the Strand, and the building that now houses the Imperial War Museum. 

Coade stone is versatile, yet withstands the elements with ease. After around two centuries of substantial air pollution, many of these monuments are as detailed as they were the day they were made. 

Unlike many inventors, Coade kept her recipe a closely guarded secret. So secret, that it wasn't until 1985 that a British Museum analysis finally determined that it is made of ceramic stoneware. Despite this secrecy, she was an extremely talented publicist, with numerous adverts in the Daily Advertiser, the Gazetteer, and the New Daily Advertiser, and in 1784 published a comprehensive catalogue of 746 designs. In 1780 she obtained the Royal Appointment to George III (and later George IV), and worked with some of the most celebrated architects of her day: Robert Adam, James and Samuel Wyatt, William Chambers, John Nash, and John Soane. 

I've seen doubt thrown upon whether she actually developed the process herself. I think we can be as sure of her contributions as we can be of Richard Arkwright's. Even if another workman came up with the initial principle (as Thomas Highs or John Kay did for Arkwright), Coade was the one who developed it and brought it into the market. She was also personally very skilled at the process, winning prizes from the Society of Artists. Sufficient evidence, I think, that she invented the process herself.

What I like most about Coade, however, was her grit - perhaps necessary in a business world dominated by men. She initially bought the artificial stone company, in 1769, from a Daniel Pincot. Coade stone appeared soon after. But when Pincot pretended that the business was still his, she promptly fired him.

So next time you see some implausibly intricate statuary from the 18th or early 19th centuries, think of the pioneering Eleanor Coade.

(You can read about the other female inventors here)

*Image by David Dixon under Creative Commons license

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