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Women and Their Businesses

In: Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century England

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  • Jennifer Aston

    (University of Oxford)

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The recent reassessment of the position of female business owners in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century England, and new data emerging from the USA, argues that whilst industrialisation may have caused some economic and social changes, it did not necessarily result in women losing the opportunity to inherit, establish, own and operate business enterprises. Data from mid-nineteenth-century Birmingham and London and late nineteenth-century America shows that women continued to own businesses beyond 1850, contradicting the story that by the mid-nineteenth century, the opportunity for women to exercise economic agency had passed and their fate had become inextricably bound to the private, domestic sphere. The data presented in the following chapters will demonstrate that Birmingham and London were in fact only small sections of a much bigger picture, one where women continued to trade throughout the nineteenth century, and use their position as business owners to play an active role in nineteenth-century society.

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  • Jennifer Aston, 2016. "Women and Their Businesses," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century England, chapter 3, pages 53-101, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-319-30880-7_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-30880-7_3
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