They Lived and Saved: Examining the Savings Motives of Shopkeepers in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain

Combs, Mary Beth

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“…Evidence suggests that female shopkeepers, for example, did start to adopt different investment strategies after the Married Women's Property Acts were passed, but change appears to have been gradual rather than dramatic. 20 Yet despite critically important work on women's relationship with diverse types of property, relatively little work has focused on quantifying women's landownership in either urban or rural settings. Medievalists and early modernists using rentals and leases to examine female landholding in small groups of manors or parishes have demonstrated that female tenants rarely made up more than 10 to 20 per cent of landholders.…”

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More than bricks and mortar: female property ownership as economic strategy in mid-nineteenth-century urban England

2019

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ABSTRACT:This article uses a quantitative and qualitative methodology to examine the role that women played as property owners in three mid-nineteenth-century English towns. Using data from the previously under-utilized rate books, we argue that women were actively engaged in urban property ownership as part of a complex financial strategy to generate income and invest speculatively. We show that female engagement in the urban land and property markets was widespread, significant and reflective of local economic structures. Crucially, it also was more complex in form than the historiography has previously acknowledged. The article delivers a final piece in the jigsaw puzzle of women's investment activity, demonstrating that women were active investors in the urban land market as well as the managers of landed estates, business owners and shareholders, thereby opening up new questions about how gender intersected with economic change and growth in the rapidly changing world of nineteenth-century England.

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More than bricks and mortar: female property ownership as economic strategy in mid-nineteenth-century urban England

2019

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“…Relatively few historians have used these data to explore individual wealth holding. See Collinge, ‘Probate valuations’; Combs, ‘They lived’; English, ‘Probate valuations’; idem, ‘Wealth at death’; Green et al., ‘Lives in the balance?’; Green, Owens, Swan, and van Lieshout, ‘Assets of the dead’; Mandler, ‘Art, death and taxes’; Owens, Green, Bailey, and Kay, ‘Measure of worth’; Rubinstein, ‘Cutting up rich’; Thompson, ‘Life after death’; idem, ‘Stitching it together’.…”

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Geographies of wealth: real estate and personal property ownership in England and Wales, 1870–1902

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2013

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This article explores the composition and geographies of individual wealth holding in England and Wales in the late nineteenth century. It draws on various forms of death duty records to determine the individual ownership of wealth including both personal property and real estate. By combining information on these different kinds of property, it is possible to explore how different strata of wealth holders accumulated specific forms of wealth at the time of their death. The article then examines how the composition of that wealth varied according to the wealth holder's location in the urban hierarchy and distance from London. It points out important geographical differences in both the scale and nature of wealth holding and raises questions about the implications of these findings.

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They Lived and Saved: Examining the Savings Motives of Shopkeepers in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain

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More than bricks and mortar: female property ownership as economic strategy in mid-nineteenth-century urban England

More than bricks and mortar: female property ownership as economic strategy in mid-nineteenth-century urban England

Geographies of wealth: real estate and personal property ownership in England and Wales, 1870–1902

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