1. Introduction / Rosemary Sweet -- 2. Women and Civic Life in Eighteenth-Century England / Rosemary Sweet -- 3. The Rag Plot: The Politics of Influence in Oxford, 1754 / Elaine Chalus -- 4. Women as Objects and Agents of Charity in Eighteenth-Century Birmingham / Sylvia Pinches -- 5. Urban Businesswomen in Eighteenth-Century England / Christine Wiskin -- 6. Women Entrepreneurs and Urban Expansion: Manchester, 1760-1820 / Hannah Barker and Karen Harvey -- 7. Prudent Luxury: The Metropolitan Tastes of Judith Baker, Durham Gentlewoman / Helen Berry -- 8. Women in Towns as Keepers of the Word: The Example of Warwickshire During the 1780s and 1830s / Denise Fowler -- 9. Mary Chandler's Description of Bath (1733): A Tradeswoman Poet of the Georgian Urban Renaissance / David E. Shuttleton
Notes
Papers of a conference held at the University of Leicester in May 1999
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-211) and index