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This article examines the unpublished autobiography/diary of a late-eighteenth-century Birmingham-based businesswoman to explore the phenomenon of female retirement in this period.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...

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Published in:	Women's History Review Vol. 27; no. 5; pp. 707 - 729
Main Author:	Wakelam, Alexander
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Sep2018
Subjects:	Businesswomen Retired women Retirement Older women Single women Eighteenth century Finance History United Kingdom
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