Affiliation:
1. Jacqueline Barbara Carr, Associate Professor of Early American History at the University of Vermont, is the author of After the Siege: A Social History of Boston, 1775–1800.
Abstract
Drawing on a raft of data about women's business activities in Boston, 1780–1830, the article shows that widows and single women succeeded in a highly competitive marketplace by trading on their complex and diverse skills, business acumen, and personal connections and by strategically marketing gentility to an expanding middle-class.
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,History
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