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Aston, Jennifer.

Female entrepreneurship in nineteenth-century Englandengagement in the urban economy /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Female entrepreneurship in nineteenth-century Englandby Jennifer Aston.
Reminder of title:	engagement in the urban economy /
Author:	Aston, Jennifer.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2016.
Description:	xvii, 257 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Women-owned business enterprisesHistory19th century.England
Subject:	Great BritainEconomic policy1979-1997.
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30880-7
ISBN:	9783319308807$q(electronic bk.)

Female entrepreneurship in nineteenth-century Englandengagement in the urban economy /
Aston, Jennifer.

Female entrepreneurship in nineteenth-century Englandengagement in the urban economy /[electronic resource] :by Jennifer Aston. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2016. - xvii, 257 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in economic history. - Palgrave studies in economic history..

Introduction -- Chapter 1: Locating Female Business Owners in the Historiography -- Chapter 2: Women and their Businesses -- Chapter 3: Who was the Victorian Businesswoman? -- Chapter 4: The Social Network -- Chapter 5: Life After Death -- Conclusion.

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.

ISBN: 9783319308807$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-30880-7doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

758377
Women-owned business enterprises
--History--England--19th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

381151
Great Britain
--Economic policy--1979-1997.

LC Class. No.: HD6072.6.G7 / A87 2016

Dewey Class. No.: 338.0408209421

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