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"This volume challenges those who see gender inequalities invariably defining and constraining the lives of women. But it also broadens the conversation about t

The book examines female entrepreneurship in the nineteenth century. Economic history has long accorded women entrepreneurs a very minor place, relegating them

Looking at women, business and finance in the long nineteenth century, this book challenges our traditional understanding of 'separate spheres' - whereby men op

A reappraisal of the business enterprises of women in the `long' eighteenth century, showing them to be more flourishing than previously thought.