Women Writing about Money: Women's Fiction in England, 1790-1820
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This study addresses a paradox in the lives of women in Jane Austen's time who had no legal access to money yet were held responsible for domestic expenditure. The book translates the fictional money of the novels of Jane Austen's day into the power of contemporary spendable incomes, and from the perspective of what the British pound could buy at the market, the economic lives of women in the novels emerge as part of a general picture of women's economic...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521616166
ISBN13:9780521616164
Release Date:December 2004
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:312 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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