Enterprising Women and Shipping in the Nineteenth Century
Details:
- Author(s) Doe, Helen
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2009
- Pages 272pp; illus
- Publisher Boydell Press
- Place Published Woodbridge
Topics:
- Name Women in business
- Name Investors & investor behaviour
- Name Legal issues
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
Explores role of women [widows, spinsters, wives] as investors in and managers of shipping and shipbuilding businesses in years 1780-1880 and thereby reassess role and effectiveness of women as active economic agents. Chapters deal with the general legal and financial environment for women; maritime environment within which they worked; activities of women shipping investors at five selected ports - Exeter, Fowey, King's Lynn, Whitby, Whitehaven; analyses of investors from perspectives of marital status and activity in relation to investments; role of managing owner; involvement of women generally in port businesses; ditto merchant shipbuilding [in particular Mrs Frances Barnard of Deptford and Mrs Mary Ross of Rochester]; ditto warship building [more briefly Mrs Elizabeth May of Plymouth; Mrs Elizabeth Gowan of Berwick; Mrs Ann Nicholls of Dartmouth; Mrs Rosanna Tucker of Bristol; Mrs Ann Johnson of Bideford; Mrs Elizabeth Evans of Salcome; Mrs Jane Slade of Polruan]. See the writer's doctoral thesis 'Enterprising Women. Maritime businesswomen, 1780-1820', Exeter, 2006