1st Edition
Women and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century England 'On the Town'
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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Despite the considerable volume of research into various aspects of the social and economic, cultural and political history of eighteenth-century British towns, remarkably little has focused upon, or even reflected upon the distinctive experience of women in the urban context. Much of what research there is has explored the experience of laboring or impoverished women, or women of the social... Read more
Contents: Preface; Introduction, Rosemary Sweet; Women and civic life in 18th-century England, Rosemary Sweet; The Rag plot: the politics of influence in Oxford, 1754, Elaine Chalus; Women as objects and agents of charity in 18th-century Birmingham, Sylvia Pinches; Urban businesswomen in 18th-century England, Christine Wiskin; Women entrepreneurs and urban expansion: Manchester, 1760-1820, Hannah Barker and Karen Harvey; Prudent luxury: the metropolitan tastes of Judith Baker, Durham gentlewoman, Helen Berry; Women in towns as keepers of the word: the example of Warwickshire during the 1780s and 1830s, Denise Fowler; Mary Chandler's Description of Bath (1733): a tradeswoman poet of the Georgian urban renaissance, David E. Shuttleton; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Rosemary Sweet, Penelope Lane
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