Enterprising Women and Shipping in the Nineteenth Century

by Helen Doe

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843834723
• ISBN13: 9781843834724
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Boydell Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"