ISBN:
9781315233796
,
9781351872102
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (viii, 216 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.40942
Keywords:
Women History 18th century
;
City and town life History 18th century
Abstract:
1. Introduction / Rosemary Sweet -- 2. Women and civic life in eighteenth-century England / Rosemary Sweet -- 3. The rag plot : the politics of influence in Oxford, 1754 / Elaine Chalus -- 4. Women as objects and agents of charity in eighteenth-century Birmingham / Sylvia Pinches -- 5. Urban businesswomen in eighteenth-century England / Christine Wiskin -- 6. Women entrepreneurs and urban expansion : Manchester, 1760-1820 / Hannah Barker and Karen Harvey -- 7. Prudent luxury : the Metropolitan tastes of Judith Baker, Durham gentlewoman / Helen Berry -- 8. Women in towns as keepers of the word : the example of Warwickshire during the 1780s and 1830s / Denise Fowler -- 9. Mary Chandler's Description of Bath (1733) : a tradeswoman poet of the Georgian urban Renaissance / David E. Shuttleton.
DOI:
10.4324/9781315233796
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