Enterprising Women and Shipping in the Nineteenth Century

Helen Doe

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Enterprising Women and Shipping in the Nineteenth Century

Helen Doe

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2009

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About this book

An examination of women entrepreneurs who invested in, and often managed, non-feminine businesses such as shipping and shipbuilding in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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History Historical Periods Modern History

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Tables and Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
1 The Legal, Financial and Cultural Environment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	13
2 Maritime Communities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	33
3 Five Investor Ports Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	52
4 Shipowning Wives, Widows and Spinsters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	78
5 Active and Passive Female Shipowners Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	102
6 Managing Owners Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	127
7 Port Businesswomen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	149
8 Warship Builders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	172
9 Merchant Shipbuilders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193
10 Conclusion: ‘A Respectable and Desirable Thing’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	216
Appendices
Appendix I Relevant Statutes (with brief notes on their significance) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	225
Appendix II Maritime Occupations from Trade Directories Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	228
Appendix III Statistics on Businesswomen across England Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	232
Appendix IV Registered Shipping in England and Wales, 1871 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	234
Appendix V The Investor Database Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	237
Appendix VI Managing Owners with Multiple Vessels in 1865 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	241
Appendix VII Port Businesswomen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	242
Appendix VIII Rose Downs Thompson Correspondence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	244
Appendix IX Selected Correspondence, Mrs Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	246
Appendix X Penney Agreement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	248
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	251
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	267

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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

eBook published on:

September 17, 2009

eBook ISBN:

9781846157219

Original publisher:

Boydell Press

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Main content:

286

Other:

10 b/w, 6 line illus.

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781846157219

eBook ISBN: 9781846157219

Keywords for this book

Women Entrepreneurs; Shipping; Shipbuilding; Victorian Women; Business Challenges; Male Workforce; Economic Role; Independent Women; England

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Professional and scholarly;

Enterprising Women and Shipping in the Nineteenth Century

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