Women in Business, 1700-1850
Details:
- Author(s) Phillips, Nicola
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2006
- Pages 299pp; illus
- Publisher Boydell Press
- Place Published Woodbridge
Topics:
- Name Women in business
- Name Legal issues
- Name Business & related networks, exc mercantile networks
Countries:
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Structured in three parts: 'Law' - 'Legal fictions vs legal facts - common law, coverture and married women in business' / 'A customary privilege? - common law, borough custom and the feme sole trader' / 'Trading 'according to equity and good conscience' - businesswomen in Chancery'; 2] 'Business' - ''The friendship of the world' - female business networks on eighteenth century Durham' / 'Women and the business of insurance, 1735 to 1845' / 'A risky business - businesswomen, property and insurance strategies, 1735 to 1845'; 3] 'Representation' - 'The Bonaparte of her day'? - gender, trade and nationalism' / ''The publick method' - women, trade and advertising in eighteenth century London' / ''A heavy bill to settle with humanity' - nineteenth century businesswomen in millinery and dressmaking'