Summary
Women⁰́₉s Economic Writing in the Nineteenth Century is the first comprehensive collection of women⁰́₉s economic writing in the long nineteenth century. The four-volume anthology includes writing from women around the world, showcases the wide variety and range of economic writing by women in the period, and establishes a tradition of women⁰́₉s economic writing; selections include didactic tales, fictional illustrations, poetry, economic theory, social theory, reports, letters, novels, speeches, dialogues, and self-help books. The anthology is divided into eight themed sections: political economy, feminist economics, domestic economics, labor, philanthropy and poverty, consumerism, emigration and empire, and self-help. Each section begins with an introduction that tells a story about women writers⁰́₉ relationship to the section theme and then provides an overview of the selections contained therein. Women⁰́₉s Economic Writing in the Nineteenth Century demonstrates just how common it was for women to write about economics in the nineteenth century and establishes important throughlines and trajectories within their body of work.
Contents
Volume 4General IntroductionPart 6. Consumerism1. Hannah More, ⁰́₈The Market Woman, a True Tale; or Honesty Is the Best Policy⁰́₉, CheapRepository Tracts (London, J. Marshall, 1795). 2. Elizabeth Coltman Heyrick. Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition; or, An Inquiry into the Shortest, Safest, and Most Effectual Means of Getting Rid of West Indian Slavery (London, J. Hatchard & Son, 1824), pp. 3-7, 24.3. Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, Wrongs of Woman (New York, M.W. Dodd, 1845), pp. 9-14, 45-63, 86-90, 93-98, 106-1084. Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford (London: Chapman and Hall, 1853), pp. 189-203.5. Caroline H. Dall, ⁰́₈The Market⁰́₉, The College, The Market, and The Court; Or, Women⁰́₉s Relation to Education, Labor, and Law (Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1867), p. 133-1506. Mary P. Whiteman, ⁰́₈Saleswomen in the Great Stores⁰́₉, Cosmopolitan. Vol. 14, No. 1, May 1895, pp. 79-85. 7. Lady [Susan] Jeune, ⁰́₈The Ethics of Shopping⁰́₉, Fortnightly Review, n.s. 57, January 1895, pp.123-32. Part 7. Emigration and Empire8. Mathilda Hays, ⁰́₈Letter to the Editor⁰́₉, The Times, Tuesday, April 29, 1862, pp. 14. 9. Marie Rye, ⁰́₈Emigration of Educated Women⁰́₉, (London, Emily Faithfull/Victoria Press, 1861), pp. 3-14. 10. Jane Lewin, ⁰́₈Female Middle Class Emigration⁰́₉, a paper read at the Social Science Congress, October 1863.11. Jessie Boucherett, ⁰́₈How to Provide for Superfluous Women⁰́₉, in Josephine Butler (ed.), Woman⁰́₉s Work and Woman⁰́₉s Culture (London: Macmillan, 1869), pp. 27-47.12. Miss Stuart, ⁰́₈Openings for Women in the Colonies⁰́₉, Englishwoman⁰́₉s Review, n.s. 177, January 1888, pp. 6-9.13. Vera Anstey, The Economic Development of India (London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1929).Part 8. Self Help14. Bessie Raynor Parkes, ⁰́₈What Can Educated Women Do?⁰́₉, English Woman⁰́₉s Journal, Vol. 4, No. 22, December 1859, pp. 217-27. 15. Ella Rodman Church, Money-Making for Ladies (New York, Harper & Brothers, 1882), pp. 3-5, 128-136.16. Jessie Boucherett, ⁰́₈The Industrial Movement⁰́₉, in Theodore Stanton (ed.), The Woman Question in Europe (New York: G.P. Putnam⁰́₉s Sons, 1884), pp. 90-107.17. Dinah Mullock Craik, About Money and Other Things: A Gift Book (New York, Harper & Brothers, 1887), pp. 1-26.18. Mrs. H. Coleman Davidson, What Our Daughters Can Do for Themselves: A Handbook of Women⁰́₉s Employments (London, Smith, Elder, 1894), pp. 148-151, 256-262. 19. Helen Churchill Candee, ⁰́₈For All Workers⁰́₉, How Women May Earn a Living (London, Macmillan & Co, Ltd, 1900), 1-13.20. Katharine Newbold Birdsall (ed.), How to Make Money: Eighty Novel and Practical Suggestions for Untrained Women⁰́₉s Work, Based on Experience (New York: Doubleday, 1903), pp. ix-xii, 91-92, 120, 121.Index