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Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century England Engagement in the Urban Economy

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Aston challenges and reshapes the on-going debate concerning social status, economic opportunity, and gender roles in nineteenth-century society.

Sources including trade directories, census returns, probate records, newspapers, advertisements, and photographs are analysed and linked to demonstrate conclusively that women in nineteenth-century England were far more prevalent in business than previously acknowledged. Moreover, women were able to establish and expand their businesses far beyond the scope of inter-generational caretakers in sectors of the economy traditionally viewed as unfeminine, and acquire the assets and possessions that were necessary to secure middle-class status. These women serve as a powerful reminder that the middle-class woman’s retreat from economic activity during the nineteenth-century, so often accepted as axiomatic, was not the case. In fact, women continued to act as autonomous and independent entrepreneurs, and used business ownership as a platform to participate in the economic, philanthropic, and political public sphere.

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The Editor : Palgrave Macmillan Cham., 2016

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XVII, 257

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English

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978-3-319-30880-7

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computer

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online resource

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Entrepreneurship
Economic History
Industrial Organization
Institutional and Evolutionary Economics

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Jennifer Aston

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