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 1 Political Economy Editorial Headnote 1 Conversations on Political Economy 2 “Preface,” and “Berkeley the Banker, Pt. 1,” Illustrations of Political Economy 3 Women and Work 4 “Apropos of Political Economy,” The English Woman’s Journal 5 “Political Economy and Christianity,” The English Woman’s Journal 6 Political Economy for Beginners 7 Tales in Political Economy 8 “A Speech on the Principles of Finance” 9 The Economics of Industry 10 “The Social Aspects of Malthusianism” 11 “The Policy in Favour of Protection” 12 Woman and Labour 13 Women and Economics 14 “Rent and Value” Index