Phillips, Nicola <br/><br/>
Women in business, 1700-1850 / 
 Women in business, seventeen hundred -eighteen fifty  Women in business, 1700 to 1850 
Nicola Phillips. 
 - xi, 299 pages :  illustrations ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 272-286) and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction : the business of life or a life in business --  Legal fictions vs. legal facts : common law, coverture and married women in business --  A customary privilege? : common law, borough custom and the feme sole trader --  Trading 'according to equity and good conscience' : businesswomen in Chancery --  'The friendship of the world' : female business networks in eighteenth-century Durham --  Women and the business of insurance, 1735 to 1845 --  A risky business : businesswomen, property and insurance strategies, 1735 to 1845 --  'The Bonaparte of her day'? : gender, trade and nationalism --  'This publick method' : women, trade and advertising in eighteenth-century London --  'A heavy bill to settle with humanity'? : nineteenth-century businesswomen in millinery and dressmaking.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>184383183X 9781843831839 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Businesswomen--History--Great Britain--18th century.<br/>Businesswomen--History--Great Britain--19th century.<br/>Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--History--Great Britain--18th century.<br/>Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--History--Great Britain--19th century.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD6054.4.G7  / P485 2006 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.4209410903