Who Was the Victorian Businesswoman?

Jennifer Aston
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Jennifer Aston: University of Oxford

Chapter 4 in Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century England, 2016, pp 103-138 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The previous two chapters have established that there were a significant number of female business owners trading in mid- to late nineteenth-century England and they did so in many different trades other than those associated with female domestic duties. Yet more information can be uncovered about female business owners than simply the types of trade that they owned. Discovering how women became business owners, the length of time that they traded, if they traded alone or in partnerships, the locations that they traded from and the advertisements that they commissioned, enables us to start understanding the motivations, agency and skills of female business owners.

Keywords: Business Owner; Town Centre; Protection Order; Female Entrepreneur; Census Record (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-30880-7_4

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