Title Women and urban life in eighteenth-century England : on the town / edited by Rosemary Sweet and Penelope Lane

Published Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2003] ©2003

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Description viii, 216 pages ; 23 cm Contents 1. Introduction / Rosemary Sweet -- 2. Women and Civic Life in Eighteenth-Century England / Rosemary Sweet -- 3. The Rag Plot: The Politics of Influence in Oxford, 1754 / Elaine Chalus -- 4. Women as Objects and Agents of Charity in Eighteenth-Century Birmingham / Sylvia Pinches -- 5. Urban Businesswomen in Eighteenth-Century England / Christine Wiskin -- 6. Women Entrepreneurs and Urban Expansion: Manchester, 1760-1820 / Hannah Barker and Karen Harvey -- 7. Prudent Luxury: The Metropolitan Tastes of Judith Baker, Durham Gentlewoman / Helen Berry -- 8. Women in Towns as Keepers of the Word: The Example of Warwickshire During the 1780s and 1830s / Denise Fowler -- 9. Mary Chandler's Description of Bath (1733): A Tradeswoman Poet of the Georgian Urban Renaissance / David E. Shuttleton Notes Papers of a conference held at the University of Leicester in May 1999 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-211) and index Subject City and town life -- England -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses. Women -- England -- Economic conditions -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses. Women -- England -- Social conditions -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses. Women -- England -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses. Women -- England -- Economic conditions -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses. Women -- England -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses. City and town life -- England -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses. Women -- England -- Social conditions -- 18th century. Women -- England -- Social conditions -- 19th century. Women -- England -- Economic conditions -- 18th century. Women -- England -- Economic conditions -- 19th century. Women -- England -- Social conditions -- History -- 18th century. Women -- England -- Social conditions -- History -- 19th century. Women -- England -- Economic conditions -- History -- 18th century. Women -- England -- Economic conditions -- History -- 19th century. City and town life -- England -- History -- 18th century. City and town life -- England -- History -- 19th century. Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings. Author Sweet, Rosemary. Lane, Penelope. LC no. 2002042679 ISBN 0754607305 alkaline paper

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