Rylands, Enriqueta Augustina

has biography | a une biographie: British philanthropist who founded the John Rylands Library in Manchester. Enriqueta Augustina was born to a wealthy family of slave-owners in Havana, Cuba in 1843.

In 1875 Enriqueta married John Rylands, a leading manufacturer of cotton in nineteenth-century Britain. Rylands' firm Rylands and Sons imported much of the cotton for their Lancashire mills from the American South, which would have been picked by enslaved people until 1865.
was born | est né: 31 May 1843
died in | est mort par: 4 February 1908
has nationality | a la nationalité: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
has type | est de type: depicted
has association with | a une association avec: Rylands, John

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia; Elizabeth Gow, 'Rylands Reflects: Whiter than white? Enriqueta Rylands’s Cuban roots' (2020); Elizabeth Gow, 'Rylands Reflects: Our Man in Havana' (2020); Elizabeth Gow, 'Rylands Reflects: Enriqueta Rylands’s first home' (2022)

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Statue of Enriqueta Augustina Rylands

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