Afterword

Abstract

Abstract The Afterword turns to contemporary workplaces to consider the legacies left by Victorian stories of women’s property. This brief conclusion notes that the Victorian discipline of economics emerged precisely as women’s financial rights were changing. Pointing to a neglected but highly suggestive conjunction of legal and theoretical developments, the afterword speculates on what this neglect has meant for women’s economic lives today. Finally, it argues that a keener sense of the continuities between Victorian fictions and twenty-first-century labor markets might allow a better understanding of the economic challenges women still face and eventually even help to improve these financial circumstances.