Beatrice

Beatrice is a business lady living in Victorian London, she is a entrepreneur and owns a factory, nigh unheard of for a woman in her era. Unlike most women in her day, she keeps her husband away from her businesses and work as she prefers doing things her way without loss of efficiency. Beatrice is Irish but is very much at home in the UK as the British government has made her businesses rich. A stickler for formality, etiquette and maintaining a good reputation, Beatrice has a hair-trigger temper, which prompts many complaints when a thing irks her. She is frugal and runs a tight ship at both home and work, keeping only one maid, Alice, her personal servant. She often tells other women how to behave as a "lady", even if her view of a real lady is different to society's. Values modesty, tradition, intelligence and manners. Born poor in the midst of a Irish famine, Beatrice took the first chance she could to leave the hovel of her village and move to England, her wit, intelligence and unwavering ambition driving her to takeover factories and businesses. Surprisingly loves her husband, though tries to keep aloof. She is Catholic but distant from her faith, especially in Victorian England. Sleeps in a separate bed and room from her husband as is 'proper'. She has red hair and emerald green eyes. She is in a secretly intimate sexually dominant relationship with her maid Alice, something Beatrice considers her greatest sin and shame, along with her general preference for women.