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Women and urban life in eighteenth-century England : on the town /
The essays in this collection arose out of a conference that bears the same title as the book. The editors wanted to open up a discussion on the varied experiences of women in the 18th century urban milieu of England. Their study is one of very few books that considers this fascinating and important...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.