Research Catalog

Title

Women and their money 1700-1950 : essays on women and finance / edited by Anne Laurence, Josephine Maltby and Janette Rutterford.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Laurence, Anne.
• Maltby, Josephine.
• Rutterford, Janette.

Description

xvii, 309 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Routledge international studies in business history ; 15

Uniform Title

Routledge international studies in business history ; 15.

Subjects

• Finance > History
• Women > Finance, Personal > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

2 Women and finance in eighteenth-century England / Anne Laurence 30 -- 3 Women in the city: financial acumen during the South Sea Bubble / Ann M. Carlos, Karen Maguire, Larry Neal 33 -- 4 Women, banks and the securities market in early eighteenth-century England / Anne Laurence 46 -- 5 Women investors and financial knowledge in eighteenth-century Germany / Eve Rosenhaft 59 -- 6 Accounting for business: financial management in the eighteenth century / Christine Wiskin 73 -- 7 Women and wealth: the nineteenth century in Great Britain / Lucy A. Newton, Philip L. Cottrell, Josephine Maltby, Janette Rutterford 86 -- 8 Between Madam Bubble and Kitty Lorimer: women investors in British and Irish stock companies / Mark Freeman, Robin Pearson, James Taylor 95 -- 9 Female investors in the first English and Welsh commercial joint-stock banks / Lucy A. Newton, Philip L. Cottrell 115 -- 10 To do the right thing: gender, wealth, inheritance and the London middle class / David R. Green 133 -- 11 Women and wealth in fiction in the long nineteenth century 1800-1914 / Janette Rutterford, Josephine Maltby 151 -- 12 Octavia Hill: property manager and accountant / Stephen P. Walker 165 -- 13 Female investors within the Scottish investment trust movement in the 1870s / Claire Swan 178 -- 14 Women clerical staff employed in the UK-based Army Pay Department establishments, 1914-1920 / John Black 197 -- 15 Women and money: the United States / Nancy Marie Robertson, Susan M. Yohn 218 -- 16 'Men seem to take delight in cheating women': legal challenges faced by businesswomen in the United States, 1880-1920 / Susan M. Yohn 226 -- 17 'The principles of sound banking and financial noblesse oblige': women's departments in US banks at the turn of the twentieth century / Nancy Marie Robertson 243 -- 18 Women, money and the financial revolution: a gender perspective on the development of the Swedish financial system, c. 1860-1920 / Tom Petersson 254 -- 19 Women's wealth and finance in nineteenth-century Milan / Stefania Licini 271 -- 20 The transformation from 'thrifty accountant' to 'independent investor'?: the changing relationship of Japanese women and finance under the influence of globalization / Naoko Komori 290.

Call Number

JFE 12-4507

ISBN

• 9780415419765 (hb)
• 041541976X (hb)
• 9780203885994 (eb)
• 0203885996 (eb)

LCCN

2008025174

OCLC

232002021

Title

Women and their money 1700-1950 : essays on women and finance / edited by Anne Laurence, Josephine Maltby and Janette Rutterford.

Imprint

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Series

Routledge international studies in business history ; 15

Routledge international studies in business history ; 15.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

Table of contents only

Added Author

Laurence, Anne.

Maltby, Josephine.

Rutterford, Janette.

Research Call Number

JFE 12-4507