... THE BUSINESS OF WOMEN This page intentionally left blank The Business of Women Female Enterprise and Urban Development in Northern England 1760–1830 HANNAH BARKER Great ... Eighteenth-Century Northern Germany’ 10 Introduction depiction of the ubiquity of women in business, and examines their appearance in advertising, at the centre of business networks and their physical ... pictures of middling women s economic activity.²² Britain, and England in particular, is often celebrated for the precocity of its urban and industrial development in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth...