Women’s Economic Writing in the Nineteenth Century

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

Volume 4

General Introduction

Part 6. Consumerism

1. Hannah More, ‘The Market Woman, a True Tale; or Honesty Is the Best Policy’, Cheap

Repository Tracts (London, J. Marshall, 1795).

2. Elizabeth Coltman Heyrick. Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition; or, An Inquiry into the Shortest, Safest, and Most Effectual Means of Getting Rid of West Indian Slavery (London, J. Hatchard & Son, 1824), pp. 3-7, 24.

3. Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, Wrongs of Woman (New York, M.W. Dodd, 1845), pp. 9-14, 45-63, 86-90, 93-98, 106-108

4. Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford (London: Chapman and Hall, 1853), pp. 189-203.

5. Caroline H. Dall, ‘The Market’, The College, The Market, and The Court; Or, Women’s Relation to Education, Labor, and Law (Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1867), p. 133-150

6. Mary P. Whiteman, ‘Saleswomen in the Great Stores’, Cosmopolitan. Vol. 14, No. 1, May 1895, pp. 79-85.

7. Lady [Susan] Jeune, ‘The Ethics of Shopping’, Fortnightly Review, n.s. 57, January 1895, pp.

123-32.

Part 7. Emigration and Empire

8. Mathilda Hays, ‘Letter to the Editor’, The Times, Tuesday, April 29, 1862, pp. 14.

9. Marie Rye, ‘Emigration of Educated Women’, (London, Emily Faithfull/Victoria Press, 1861), pp. 3-14.

10. Jane Lewin, ‘Female Middle Class Emigration’, a paper read at the Social Science Congress, October 1863.

11. Jessie Boucherett, ‘How to Provide for Superfluous Women’, in Josephine Butler (ed.), Woman’s Work and Woman’s Culture (London: Macmillan, 1869), pp. 27-47.

12. Miss Stuart, ‘Openings for Women in the Colonies’, Englishwoman’s Review, n.s. 177, January 1888, pp. 6-9.

13. Vera Anstey, The Economic Development of India (London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1929).

Part 8. Self Help

14. Bessie Raynor Parkes, ‘What Can Educated Women Do?’, English Woman’s Journal, Vol. 4, No. 22, December 1859, pp. 217-27.

15. Ella Rodman Church, Money-Making for Ladies (New York, Harper & Brothers, 1882), pp. 3-5, 128-136.

16. Jessie Boucherett, ‘The Industrial Movement’, in Theodore Stanton (ed.), The Woman Question in Europe (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1884), pp. 90-107.

17. Dinah Mullock Craik, About Money and Other Things: A Gift Book (New York, Harper & Brothers, 1887), pp. 1-26.

18. Mrs. H. Coleman Davidson, What Our Daughters Can Do for Themselves: A Handbook of Women’s Employments (London, Smith, Elder, 1894), pp. 148-151, 256-262.

19. Helen Churchill Candee, ‘For All Workers’, How Women May Earn a Living (London, Macmillan & Co, Ltd, 1900), 1-13.

20. Katharine Newbold Birdsall (ed.), How to Make Money: Eighty Novel and Practical Suggestions for Untrained Women’s Work, Based on Experience (New York: Doubleday, 1903), pp. ix-xii, 91-92, 120, 121.

Index