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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| Language: | English |
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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.