'Gender at sea. Women and the East India Company in seventeenth century London' in P Lane et al (eds), Women, Work and Wages in England, 1600-1850

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Author(s) Sharpe, Pamela
Publication type Chapter
Year published 2004
Pages pp47-67
Publisher Boydell Press
Place Published Woodbridge

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Name Worker / employee & work, women alone
Name Women in business

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Library:

Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:

Outlines the ways in which women, especially wives and widows of seamen, interacted with the Company; their receipt of various means of institutional support and employment - eg in commissions to make items for use in the Company's ships; more briefly the roles of women of property as lenders, stockholders, providers of storage, etc