Women’s Economic Writing in the Nineteenth Century

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Women’s Economic Writing in the Nineteenth Century is the first comprehensive collection of women’s 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 women’s 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 writers’ relationship to the section theme and then provides an overview of the selections contained therein. Women’s 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. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgments General Introduction Part 6 Consumerism Editorial Headnote 1 “The Market Woman, a True Tale; or Honesty Is the Best Policy” 2 Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition; or, An Inquiry into the Shortest, Safest, and Most Effectual Means of Getting Rid of West Indian Slavery 3 Wrongs of Woman 4 Cranford 5 “The Market,” The College, The Market, and The Court; Or, Woman’s Relation to Education, Labor, and Law 6 “Saleswomen in the Great Stores,” Cosmopolitan 7 “The Ethics of Shopping,” Fortnightly Review Part 7 Emigration and Empire Editorial Headnote 8 “Letter to the Editor,” The Times 9 Emigration of Educated Women 10 “Female Middle Class Emigration” 11 “How to Provide for Superfluous Women,” in Josephine Butler (ed.), Woman’s Work and Woman’s Culture 12 “Openings for Women in the Colonies,” Englishwoman’s Review 13 The Economic Development of India Part 8 Self-Help Editorial Headnote 14 “What Can Educated Women Do?” English Woman’s Journal 15 Money-Making for Ladies 16 “The Industrial Movement,” in Theodore Stanton (ed.), The Woman Question in Europe 17 About Money and Other Things: A Gift Book 18 What Our Daughters Can Do for Themselves: A Handbook of Women’s Employments 19 How Women May Earn a Living 20 How to Make Money: Eighty Novel and Practical Suggestions for Untrained Women’s Work, Based on Actual Experience Index