During her sixty-five-year career Susie Cooper introduced more than 4 500 ceramic patterns & shapes making her one of the most prolific versatile & influential designers the industry has ever seen. Between the 1920s & 1980s she moved from the bold h&-painting of the ' Jazz Age' through delicate wash banding & aerograph techniques to sophisticated lithographic transfer printing on both earthenware & bone china. Cooper not only led the charge of gifted female designers in the male-dominated Potteries but also pioneered the role of women in factory management. Alan Marshall here charts her progress from the creation of patterns for Gray's Pottery in the 1920s to running her own Susie Cooper Productions from the 1930s to the 1950s & designing for Wedgwood from the 1960s to the 1980s.