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The Business of Women - Female Enterprise and Urban Development in Northern England 1760-1830 (Hardcover)
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The Business of Women - Female Enterprise and Urban Development in Northern England 1760-1830 (Hardcover)
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This study argues that businesswomen were central to urban society
and to the operation and development of commerce in the late
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It presents a rich and
complicated picture of lower-middling life and female enterprise in
three northern English towns: Manchester, Leeds, and Sheffield. The
stories told by a wide range of sources - including trade
directories, newspaper advertisements, court records,
correspondence, and diaries - demonstrate the very differing
fortunes and levels of independence that individual businesswomen
enjoyed. Yet, as a group, their involvement in the economic life of
towns and, in particular, the manner in which they exploited and
facitilitated commercial development, force us to reassess our
understanding of both gender relations and urban culture in late
Georgian England. In contrast to the traditional historical
consensus that the independent woman of business during this period
- particularly those engaged in occupations deemed 'unfeminine' -
was insignificant and no more than an oddity, businesswomen are
presented here not as footnotes to the main narrative, but as
central characters in a story of unprecedented social and economic
transformation.
The book reveals a complex picture of female participation in
business. It shows that factors traditionally thought to
discriminate against women's commercial activity - particularly
property laws and ideas about gender and respectability - did have
significant impacts upon female enterprise. Yet it is also evident
that women were not automatically economically or socially
marginalized as a result. The woman of business might be subject to
various constraints, but at thesame time, she could be blessed with
a number of freedoms, and a degree of independence that set her
apart from most other women - and many men - in late Georgian
society.
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