Alice Ann Cornwell (1 January 1852 – 7 January 1932) was a British goldmining industrialist and newspaper proprietor. She made her fortune from gold and floated her company on the London Stock Exchange.

2022年10月30日 · Alice Cornwell was a true phenomenon, a self-made Victorian woman who went from a terraced house in West Ham to mixing with the cream of London society. She was prepared to challenge conventions and while some of …

2020年8月13日 · Alice Ann Cornwell was an English industrialist, mine speculator, entrepreneur and newspaper owner. She made her fortune from gold after floating her company on the London Stock Exchange. Despite her achievements, she is one of …

Alice Cornwell has been described as a ‘strikingly good looking woman’, the ‘girl with the golden touch’, a brilliant business woman, a good supervisor of men, and uncannily lucky. She was also known as ‘Madam Midas’. Alice was a mine manager and speculator in the latter part of the nineteenth century when few women undertook such a role publicly.

2024年5月15日 · Alice Cornwell, famously known as Princess Midas (1852-1932), stood as a formidable figure in the male-dominated sphere of business and industry during the late 19th century. Her notable mining ventures in Ballarat, including the Midas Mining Company, The Speedwell and Victorian Uniting mines, marked her as a pioneering force.

2021年3月5日 · The Madame Midas of the title is a real woman, known to the author, Alice Cornwell, who owned and made a fortune from the Midas Mine in Ballarat.

Not much has been heard lately in the City of 'Madam Midas,' the sobriquet of Miss Alice Cornwall, the Australian lady financier who achieved a celebrity for a season by succesfully floating the Midas Gold Mining Company, launching several other colonial ventures, and becoming the proprietress of the Sunday Times.

2017年1月29日 · Older than Clara by a quarter of a century, Alice Cornwell became famous in her thirties when she took on the task of rescuing her father from financial ruin after her mother’s untimely death. Alice turned her father’s disastrous Sulky Gully mine in Ballarat into the highly successful Midas Mine.

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Alice Ann Cornwell (1 January 1852 – 7 January 1932) was a British goldmining industrialist and newspaper proprietor. She made her fortune from gold and floated her company on the London Stock Exchange.