Lena Connell's father had made high-class watches known as chronometers, but her father's interest moved to photography before he became a salesperson.
10 Facts About Lena Connell
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Lena Connell started her own photography business and was exhibiting her work professionally at the New Gallery Exhibition in 1901.
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Lena Connell was elected a member of the Professional Photographers' Association in 1903.
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Lena Connell was said to be the first woman photographer to take pictures of male subjects.
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Lena Connell took pictures of leading members of the Women's Freedom League as well as Emmeline Pankhurst and other suffrage leaders.
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Lena Connell was intrigued by the suffrage cause after she was employed to take pictures of the suffragette Gladice Keevil after she was released from prison.
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Lena Connell was a member of the WSPU in Hampstead and she collaborated with Cicely Hamilton on Edith Craig's production of her iconic play "A Pageant of Women" by the Pioneer Players.
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In 1911 Lena Connell was advertising for an assistant in "The Suffragette" magazine to work at her studio in St John's Wood.
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Lena Connell married Jack Cundy in 1914 and, in 1922, closed her shop and decided to specialise in "at-home" photography using her married name of Beatrice Cundy.
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Lena Connell continued to exhibit her work and an exhibition of her 'at home' portraiture was held at the Halcyon Club in June 1929 and October 1932.