EAN: 9783319308791

FEMALE ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY E...

Aston challenges and reshapes the on-going debate concerning social status  economic
opportunity  and gender roles in nineteenth-century society. Sources including trade
directories  census returns  probate records  newspapers  advertisements  and photographs are
analysed and linked to demonstrate conclusively that women in nineteenth-century England were
far more prevalent in business than previously acknowledged. Moreover  women were able to
establish and expand their businesses far beyond the scope of inter-generational caretakers in
sectors of the economy traditionally viewed as unfeminine  and acquire the assets and
possessions that were necessary to secure middle-class status. These women serve as a powerful
reminder that the middle-class woman's retreat from economic activity during the
nineteenth-century  so often accepted as axiomatic  was not the case. In fact  women continued
to act as autonomous and independent entrepreneurs  and used business ownership asa platform to
participate in the economic  philanthropic  and political public sphere.

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