Benefiting from the ‘comforts of ease & afluence’: The experience of female business retirement in the diary of Sarah Florry.
This article examines the unpublished autobiography/diary of a late-eighteenth-century Birmingham-based businesswoman to explore the phenomenon of female retirement in this period. Despite plentiful recent research on the regularity of female business ownership in the eighteenth century there have b...
| Published in: | Women's History Review Vol. 27; no. 5; pp. 707 - 729 |
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Sep2018
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