Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century England

Engagement in the Urban Economy

By:

Jennifer Aston

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Hardback

Series:

Palgrave Studies in Economic History

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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 aplatform to participate in the economic, philanthropic, and political public sphere.

Author Biography:

Jennifer Aston is Junior Research Fellow and Retained Lecturer in History at Pembroke College, Oxford, and Research Assistant on the ESRC-funded Professions in Nineteenth Century Britain project, History Faculty, Oxford, UK. She previously held the Eileen Power Research Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK. Her research focuses on gender, entrepreneurship and business in nineteenth-century Britain.

Release date Australia

August 22nd, 2016

Author

Jennifer Aston

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Edition

1st ed. 2016

Illustrations

3 Illustrations, color; 28 Illustrations, black and white; XVII, 257 p. 31 illus., 3 illus. in color.

Pages

257

Series

Palgrave Studies in Economic History

Dimensions

148x210x20

ISBN-13

9783319308791

Product ID

25039394

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