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Women in business, 1700-1850
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- Creator
- Nicola Phillips
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY, USA : Boydell Press, 2006
- Physical Details
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- xi, 299 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781843831839, 184383183X
- OCLC
- ocm63273133
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-286) and index.
- Introduction : the business of life or a life in business -- 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 -- "The friendship of the world" : female business networks in eighteenth-century Durham -- Women and the business of insurance, 1735 to 1845 -- A risky business : businesswomen, property and insurance strategies, 1735 to 1845 -- "The Bonaparte of her day"? : gender, trade and nationalism -- "This publick method" : women, trade and advertising in eighteenth-century London -- "A heavy bill to settle with humanity"? : nineteenth-century businesswomen in millinery and dressmaking -- Conclusion : "business is just life."