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- Title
Waiting for her ship to come in? The female investor in nineteenth-century sailing vessels.
- Authors
DOE, HELEN
- Abstract
The contribution of women to the economy as investors has an increasing profile, but sources of information on women's economic activity in the nineteenth century are limited. However, shipping registers provide new avenues for exploring this largely hidden perspective. Women investors in shipping are revealed here to be more consistently active across the century with a close involvement with their investment. They were a significant factor in enabling smaller port communities to remain self-sufficient in their industry funding until the dominance of steam in the 1880s caused the sailing vessel to become increasingly obsolete.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; WOMEN capitalists &; financiers; WOMEN; MARITIME shipping finance; FREIGHT forwarders; SHIPOWNERS; BUSINESSWOMEN; SAILING ships; HISTORY; FINANCE; ECONOMIC history
- Publication
Economic History Review, 2010, Vol 63, Issue 1, p85
- ISSN
0013-0117
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0289.2009.00496.x