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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 -- Conclusion : "business is just life." |
