LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES; LUST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; INTRODUCTION; 1 The Legal, Financial and Cultural Environment; 2 Maritime Communities; 3 Five Investor Ports; 4 Shipowning Wives, Widows and Spinsters; 5 Active and Passive Female Shipowners; 6 Managing Owners; 7 Port Businesswomen; 8 Warship Builders; 9 Merchant Shipbuilders; 10 Conclusion: 'A Respectable and Desirable Thing'; APPENDICES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Summary
Far from the genteel notion of Victorian women as milliners and haberdashers, this book shows that women could and did manage male businesses and manage men. Women invested in the expanding shipping industry throughout the late eighteenth and the nineteen
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-265) and index
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