Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century England

Jennifer Aston is Junior Research Fellow and Retained Lecturer in History at Pembroke College, Oxford, and Research Assistant on the ESRC-funded Professions in Nineteenth Century Britain project, History Faculty, Oxford, UK. She previously held the Eileen Power Research Fellowship at the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK. Her research focuses on gender, entrepreneurship and business in nineteenth-century Britain.

• Introduction.- Chapter 1: Locating Female Business Owners in the Historiography.- Chapter 2: Women and their Businesses.- Chapter 3: Who was the Victorian Businesswoman?.- Chapter 4: The Social Network.- Chapter 5: Life After Death.- Conclusion.