Thesis
'Marry - stitch - die - or do worse'?: female self-employment and small business proprietorship in London c.1740 - 1880.
- Abstract:
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'Marry - Stitch - Die - or Do Worse' ran a Times newspaper leader in 1857. Yet a significant proportion of the adult female population at this time were surviving without a husband, particularly in London. This thesis focuses on the activities of such women who never married, were deserted or became widowed. Sometimes labelled 'redundant', 'distressed' or 'failed' by their contemporaries, they were frequently unsupported.
In the face of substantial barriers to paid employment, this...
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+ Economic and Social Research Council
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Funding agency for:
Kay, A
Grant:
R00429934493
Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 2002
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- Oxford University, UK
Item Description
- Language:
- English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- ora:8858
- Deposit date:
- 2014-08-04
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- Copyright holder:
- Alison C Kay
- Copyright date:
- 2002
- Notes:
- Due to third party copyright issues parts of this thesis have been redacted in order to make the full-text available online via ORA.
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