Minding Her Own Business
Subtitle: Colonial Businesswomen in Sydney
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781742234328
Subjects: Businesswomen, biography; Australia, biography; Small business; Women, history, modern period, 1600-; Women, social conditions; Women, australia; Australia, history
Description: "[This book] reveals for the first time that the streets of colonial Sydney were full of entrepreneurial businesswomen, who earned their living in a variery of small and sometimes surprising enterprises. From milliners and dressmakesr to ironmongers and booksellers, from publicans and boarding house keepers to butchers and taxidermists; from schoolteachers to ginger-beer manufacturers: these women were visible to their contemporaries but have been lost to history..."--Back cover.