Introduction

Jennifer Aston
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Jennifer Aston: University of Oxford

Chapter 1 in Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century England, 2016, pp 1-21 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract In 1859, the economist, social commentator and journalist Harriet Martineau wrote,Today, over 150 years later, Martineau’s comments still ring true and much of the female contribution to the nineteenth-century English urban economy, particularly in the world of business in the latter half of the nineteenth century, remains unacknowledged and hidden from history. This book seeks to address this issue by using data gathered from late nineteenth-century Birmingham and Leeds to highlight the commonplace occurrence of women engaging in business in nineteenth-century Britain; and by examining the social, political and economic activities of these women, to demonstrate the flaws and limitations of accepting gender as a lens through which to view the engagement of women in the urban economy.

Keywords: Nineteenth Century; Business Owner; Urban Economy; Female Entrepreneur; Probate Record (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-30880-7_1

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