Economic Women Essays on Desire and Dispossession in Nineteenth-Century British Culture / Edited by Lana L. Dalley and Jill Rappoport. [print]

Introducing economic women/ Lana L. Dalley and Jill Rappoport-- Gentry, gender, and the moral economy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in provincial England/ Kathryn Gleadle-- Women, free trade, and Harriet Martineau's Dawn Island at the 1845 Anti-Corn Law League bazaar/ Leslee Thorne-Murphy-- Sacrificial value : beyond the cash nexus in George Eliot's Romola/ Ilana M. Blumberg-- Florence Nightingale's contributions to economics/ Mary Poovey-- The cost of everything in Middlemarch/ Gordon Bigelow-- Demand and desire in Dracula/ Deanna K. Kreisel ; -- "A pauper every wife is" : Lady Westmeath, money, marriage, and divorce in early nineteenth-century England/ Janette Rutterford-- Marriage, celibacy, or emigration? Debating the costs of family life in mid-Victorian England/ Erika Rappaport ; -- "Absolutely Miss Fairlie's own" : emasculating economics in The woman in white/ Esther Godfrey ; -- "She'd give her two ears to know" : the gossip economy in Ellen Wood's St Martin's eve/ Tara MacDonald-- Charlotte Riddell : novelist of "the city" / Nancy Henry-- A "formidable" business : British women travelers in the colonial medical market/ Narin Hassan-- Afterword-and forward : economic women in their time, our time, and the future/ Regenia Gagnier.