'Marry - stitch - die - or do worse'?: female self-employment and small business proprietorship in London c.1740 - 1880.
<p>'Marry - Stitch - Die - or Do Worse' ran a Times newspaper leader in 1857. Yet a significant proportion of the adult female population at this time were surviving without a husband, particularly in London. This thesis focuses on the activities of such women who never married, wer...
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2002
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