| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Papers of a conference held at the University of Leicester in May 1999. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction / Rosemary Sweet -- 2. Women and civic life in eighteenth-century England / Rosemary Sweet -- 3. The rag plot : the politics of influence in Oxford, 1754 / Elaine Chalus -- 4. Women as objects and agents of charity in eighteenth-century Birmingham / Sylvia Pinches -- 5. Urban businesswomen in eighteenth-century England / Christine Wiskin -- 6. Women entrepreneurs and urban expansion : Manchester, 1760-1820 / Hannah Barker and Karen Harvey -- 7. Prudent luxury : the Metropolitan tastes of Judith Baker, Durham gentlewoman / Helen Berry -- 8. Women in towns as keepers of the word : the example of Warwickshire during the 1780s and 1830s / Denise Fowler -- 9. Mary Chandler's Description of Bath (1733) : a tradeswoman poet of the Georgian urban Renaissance / David E. Shuttleton. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Women -- England -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses.
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Women. |
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England. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
City and town life -- England -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses.
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City and town life. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1799 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Sweet, Rosemary, editor.
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Lane, Penelope, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781351872126 (electronic book) |
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1351872125 (electronic book) |
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9780754607304 |
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