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Silent Partners: Women as Public Investors during Britain’s Financial Revolution, 1690-1750 / Amy Froide
Review Date: 29 June 2017
Amy Froide’s book is an excellent addition to the work on early modern women done by researchers such as Amy Louise Erickson. In fact, it was Amy Erickson who first drew my attention to this book even before I was asked to review it. It does not disappoint.
Accounting for Oneself: Worth, Status, and the Social Order in Early Modern England / Alexandra Shepard
Review Date: 18 February 2016
At the heart of this book is a surprisingly straightforward methodology: an examination of responses given by witnesses in church court cases to two questions designed to probe their reliability: what were they 'worth'? (that is, the value of their moveable goods with all their debts paid); and how did they maintain themselves? This focus yields an enormous dataset of 13,686 witness statements from between 1550…
Domestic Secrets: Women and Property in Sweden, 1600-1857 / Maria Ågren
Review Date: 01 October 2010
In The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884), Friedrich Engels posited a fundamental relationship between women’s property rights, on the one hand, and changes in the social and political spheres, on the other.
The Foundations of Female Entrepreneurship. Enterprise, Home and Household in London, c.1800-1870 / Alison Kay
Review Date: 01 June 2010
The Times in its editorial of 11 February 1857 opined 'It is a terrible incident of our social existence that the resources for gaining a livelihood left open to women are so few. ...