Description: There has been considerable research into the growth of limited companies in Great Britain in the nineteenth century, but not much is known about their investors, both men and women. This interdisciplinary book, based on new research, investigates the identity and behavior of these investors.
Review Quotes: "This collection is based on papers given in 2008 at a conference hosted by the Open University on wealth, investment, and gender during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Like most such collections, there is considerable variety and variation among the individual chapters.The essays found in Men, Women, and Money add to a growing body of scholarship devoted to teasing out the various strands associated with a burgeoning securities market in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. While the volume is a bit of a hodgepodge, it contains much original and important research that will be of great interest to economic and social historians."--The Journal of British Studies