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Enterprising Women and Shipping in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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Enterprising Women and Shipping in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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An examination of women entrepreneurs who invested in, and often
managed, non-feminine businesses such as shipping and shipbuilding
in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Far from the
genteel notion of Victorian women as milliners and haberdashers,
this book shows that women could and did manage male businesses and
manage men. Women invested in the expanding shipping industry
throughout the late eighteenth and the nineteenth century and
actively ran non feminine businesses such as shipbuilding. By
setting the businesswomen firmly in the context of the industry,
the book examines the business challenges from the woman's
perspective. It demonstrates how a woman needed to understand the
business requirements while in some cases also being a single
parent. As business managers, they had to manage a male workforce,
deal with large and important customersand ensure they maintained
their firm's reputation and continued to win orders. Nor were these
women mere caretakers for the next generation, in many cases
continuing to run the business in an active manner after their son
or sons were of age. This book reveals communities of independent
women in England who were active entrepreneurs and investors, in a
period when women were increasingly supposed to be relegated to a
more domestic role. It includes briefbiographies of many of these
women entrepreneurs who were also conventional mothers, wives and
daughters. Helen Doe is an Honorary Fellow of the Centre for
Maritime Historical Studies, University of Exeter; a Council Member
ofthe Society for Nautical Research; chair of their marketing
committee; a member of the British Commission for Maritime History;
on the Advisory Council of the SS Great Britain; and a Trustee of
the National Maritime Museum Cornwall.
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