The Business of Women : Female Enterprise and Urban Development in Northern England 1760-1830.

This study argues that businesswomen were central to urban society and to the operation and development of commerce in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It presents a rich and complicated picture of lower-middling life and female enterprise in three northern English towns: Manchest...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Scholarship Online 2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Manchester, Leeds, and Sheffield in the later Georgian age
  • Women's work and urban development
  • The "public" face of female enterprise
  • Family firms, partnerships, and independent traders
  • Family, property, and power.