The Business of Women: Female Enterprise and Urban Development in Northern England 1760-1830

by Hannah Barker

This study argues that businesswomen were central to urban society and to the operation and development of commerce in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It presents a rich and complicated picture of lower-middling life and female enterprise in three northern English towns: Manchester, Leeds, and Sheffield. The stories told by a wide range of sources - including trade directories, newspaper advertisements, court records, correspondence,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199299714
• ISBN13: 9780199299713
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.6"