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This book examines women's financial activity from the early days
of the stock market in eighteenth century England and the South Sea
Bubble to the mid-twentieth century. The essays demonstrate how
many women managed their own finances despite legal and social
restrictions and show that women were neither helpless, incompetent
and risk-averse, nor were they unduly cautious and conservative.
Rather, many women learnt about money and made themselves effective
and engaged managers of the funds at their disposal. The essays
focus on Britain, from eighteenth-century London, to the expansion
of British financial markets of the nineteenth century, with
comparative essays dealing with the US, Italy, Sweden and Japan.
Hitherto, writing about women and money has been restricted to
their management of household finances or their activities as small
business women. This book examines the clear evidence of women's
active engagement in financial matters, much neglected in
historical literature, especially women's management of capital. .
This book examines women's financial activity from the early days
of the stock market in eighteenth century England and the South Sea
Bubble to the mid-twentieth century. The essays demonstrate how
many women managed their own finances despite legal and social
restrictions and show that women were neither helpless, incompetent
and risk-averse, nor were they unduly cautious and conservative.
Rather, many women learnt about money and made themselves effective
and engaged managers of the funds at their disposal. The essays
focus on Britain, from eighteenth-century London, to the expansion
of British financial markets of the nineteenth century, with
comparative essays dealing with the US, Italy, Sweden and Japan.
Hitherto, writing about women and money has been restricted to
their management of household finances or their activities as small
business women. This book examines the clear evidence of women's
active engagement in financial matters, much neglected in
historical literature, especially women's management of capital. .
This volume brings together the varied artistic, critical and
cultural productions by women scholars, critics and artists between
1790-1900, many of whom are little known in the canonical histories
of the period. It looks at women working outside conventional
canons, and are shown how they negotiated relationships with
canonical forms of artistic production across the different
disciplines, focusing in each case on the gendered associations and
exclusions and the implied structures of sexual difference, which
may or may not be revealed. Women discussed include authors like
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Sydney Morgan and Anna Jameson,
actresses such as Elizabeth Siddons, Dorothy Jordan, and Mary
Robinson, women critics like Margaret Oliphant and Mary Cowden
Clarke, historians such as Agnes Strickland, Lucy Aikin, Mary Anne
Everett Green, Elizabeth Cooper and Lucy Toulmin Smith, the writers
and readers of Women's magazines, educationalists such as the
Shiress sisters and translators like Anna Swanwick, as well as many
others.
Drawing on a wide range of recent research, WOMEN IN ENGLAND is an
intimate social history of women who experienced life between the
Reformation and the Industrial Revolution. Anne Laurence writes
about marriage, sex, childbirth, work within and outside the
household, education, religion and women's activity in the
community and the wider world. 'A marvellously rich and fresh
survey of English women from the Reformation to the dawn of the
Industrial Revolution' Roy Porter, The Sunday Times
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This volume of original essays is designed to be of interest to
students not only of Bunyan, but of the history, religion and
literature of the seventeenth century
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