Women and urban life in eighteenth-century England : on the town /
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Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
[2003]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Rosemary Sweet
- Women and civic life in eighteenth-century England / Rosemary Sweet
- The Rag Plot : the politics of influence in Oxford, 1754 / Elaine Chalus
- Women as objects and agents of charity in eighteenth-century Birmingham / Sylvia Pinches
- Urban businesswomen in eighteenth-century England / Christine Wiskin
- Women entrepreneurs and urban expansion : Manchester, 1760-1820 / Hannah Barker and Karen Harvey
- Prudent luxury : the metropolitan tastes of Judith Baker, Durham gentlewoman / Helen Berry
- Women in towns as keepers of the word : the example of Warwickshire during the 1780s and 1830s / Denise Fowler
- Mary Chandler's Description of Bath (1733) : a tradeswoman poet of the Georgian urban renaissance / David E. Shuttleton.