Women’s Economic Writing in the Nineteenth Century

Lana L. Dalley is Professor of Victorian Literature, California State University, Fullerton, USA

Volume 1

General Introduction

Part 1. Political Economy

1. Jane Marcet, excerpts from Conversations on Political Economy [1816] (London: Longman,

Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green 1827), pp. iii-vi, 2-29.

2. Harriet Martineau, ‘Preface’, ‘Berkeley the Banker, Pt. 1’ and ‘For Each and For All’, in

Illustrations of Political Economy (London: Charles Fox, 1832), pp. iii-xviii, 37-64.

3. Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, excerpts from Women and Work (London: Bosworth and Harrison, 1857), pp. 5-15.

4. Bessie Raynor Parkes, ‘Apropos Political Economy’, The English Woman’s Journal, Vol. 12,

No. 68, October 1863, pp. 73-80.

5. Anon., ‘Political Economy and Christianity’, The English Woman’s Journal. Vol. 12, No. 71, January 1864, pp. 289-296

6. Millicent Garrett Fawcett, excerpts from Political Economy for Beginners [1870] (London:

Macmillan and Co., 1876), pp, 1-4, 9-23, 38-42.

7. Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Tales in Political Economy (London: Macmillan and Co., 1874), pp. 1-13.

8. Victoria Woodhull, ‘A Speech on the Principles of Finance’ (1871)

9. Mary Paley Marshall, excerpts from The Economics of Industry [1879], pp. 1-7, 27-35.

(London: Macmillan and Co, 1879).

10. Annie Besant, ‘The Social Aspects of Malthusianism’, (London: Freethought Publishing, 1880).

11. Olive Schreiner, ‘The Policy in Favour of Protection’ (1892)

12. Olive Schreiner, Woman and Labour (London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1911), pp. 33-68

13. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics, (Boston: Small, Maynard & Co., 1898), pp. 1-22, 76-98, 270-294.

14. Mrs. Bernard Shaw, ‘Rent and Value’, London, The Fabian Society, 1909.

Index