Life After Death

Jennifer Aston
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Jennifer Aston: University of Oxford

Chapter 6 in Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century England, 2016, pp 175-209 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Previous chapters have explored the business lives of female entrepreneurs: how women came to be in trade, the locations that they traded from, the business strategies that they employed and the relationships between family and friends that bound all these experiences together. This chapter explores how the women came to leave trade, how they secured their financial future and what happened to their assets after their death. Central to this chapter is an examination of probate records of the 100 female business owners from Birmingham and Leeds. This will enable the composition of their financial portfolios to be examined and their methods of estate distribution to be analysed. Research by R.J. Morris into the investments of middle-class men argues that the contents of investment portfolios, and the way that they were distributed on death, can be seen as tangible manifestations of middle-class male status and behaviour. This chapter will use the probate records of the 100 female business owners to demonstrate that the estate distribution methods and behaviours observed by Morris were not the sole preserve of male testators, and that women were able to utilise the exact same methods to provide for their families and cement their middle-class status.

Keywords: Real Estate; Business Owner; Probate Behaviour; Female Estate; Female Entrepreneur (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-30880-7_6

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