Title: Minding Her Own Business
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.
Subjects: Businesswomen, biography, Australia, biography, Small business, Women, history, modern period, 1600-, Women, social conditions, Women, australia, Australia, history, Businesswomen, History, Women-owned business enterprises, Women, Social conditions, Nineteen hundreds (Decade)