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Author Connor, Rebecca Elisabeth, 1965-

Title Women, accounting, and narrative : keeping books in eighteenth-century England / Rebecca Elisabeth Connor.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 214 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Routledge research in gender and history ; 6
Routledge research in gender and history ; 6.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-205) and index.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Diary of a not-so-mad housewife; Jack and The Fair Jilt: the value of Aphra Behn; Birds of a different feather: going toe-to-toe with Defoe; He said/she said: from the picaresque to the pointedly personal; Notes; References; Index.
Summary In the early eighteenth century, the household accountant was traditionally female. Socio-linguistic acts of feminized accounting are examined alongside property, originality, and the development of the early novel.
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Subject Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689. Fair jilt.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders.
Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661.-1731.
Women accountants -- England -- History -- 18th century.
Women accountants.
England.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Bookkeeping -- England -- History -- 18th century.
Bookkeeping.
Women -- England -- History -- 18th century.
Women.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: Connor, Rebecca Elisabeth, 1965- Women, accounting, and narrative. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004 041517046X (DLC) 2003066689 (OCoLC)53223746
ISBN 0203646037 (electronic book)
9780203646038 (electronic book)
9780415170468 (alkaline paper)
041517046X (alkaline paper)