Women’s Economic Writing in the Nineteenth Century

Synopsis

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.

Book details

Author:

Lana L. Dalley

ISBN:

9781000866858

Related ISBNs:

9780367337254, 9780429321511

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Pages:

N/A

Reading age:

Not specified

Includes images:

No

Date of addition:

2023-05-31

Usage restrictions:

Copyright

Copyright date:

2022

Copyright by:

selection and editorial matter, Lana L. Dalley 

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Categories:

History, Literature and Fiction, Nonfiction