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THE GILDED CAGE OF WOMAN

Jayne Catherine Conway

ISBN 979-88-86452-06-8

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Publication: 26 SEPTEMBER 2024
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ISBN: 9798886452068
Price: £22.75
Binding: Hardback

Format: 229 x 152 mm
Extent: 248 pp
Thema: DN Biography

Comparative title: 9781952558207Someone Always
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The Intimate Memoir of Margaret Bryan (1757–1836)

Even the most privileged woman’s glass ceiling in Georgian
England was limited to a wealthy, titled husband and, if all
things went well, perpetual pregnancy—boys first, please. But
despite the pressures on her to marry, headstrong and
intelligent Margaret Bryan, always drawn more to numbers
and stars than needles and threads, determines early in her
life to courageously chart her own path to a world-class
scientific education and an occupation of herown choosing.

Jayne Catherine Conway was born in England and immigrated to When she comes into an inheritance, Margaret opens her own
the United States with her family as a child. She holds a Bachelor of school to teach girls math and science. With her newfound
Science in engineering from North Carolina State University and an independence, she also gains the friendship of two of
MBA from Harvard Business School. After earning her MBA, she England’s most influential female nobility, who teach her how
worked as a strategy consultant for Bain & Company and then held to play the game of social image to advance her publishing
agenda. Drawn into this new and mysterious world of the
various C-suite leadership positions at Dunkin' Brands, Gulf Oil, Alex London Ton and Royal Society, Margaret also finds personal
and Ani, and Planet Fitness. happiness, even in the face of adversity, through her non-
conventional family and the attentions of a progressive royal
prince.

Drawing from her own years of research on this extraordinary
historical figure, Jayne Catherine Conway tells the forgotten
story of her distant relative: a respected mathematician,
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Investigating conversations around the generational abuse of
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history has for far too long confined women to “the gilded
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