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Women investors, 'that nasty south sea affair' and the rage to speculate in early eighteenth-century England

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The excursions of the five unmarried Hastings sisters and their widowed friend Jane Bonnell into the stock market show how changes in the availability of credit and the services offered by banks in the early eighteenth century had an impact on ordinary citizens. At the time of the South Sea Bubble all six bought South Sea shares through their bank. But their trading activities and investment strategies differed and had different outcomes, showing there are no easy associations between gender and ideas of risk or safe investment.

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  • Anne Laurence, 2006. "Women investors, 'that nasty south sea affair' and the rage to speculate in early eighteenth-century England," Accounting History Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(2), pages 245-264.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:acbsfi:v:16:y:2006:i:2:p:245-264
    DOI: 10.1080/09585200600756274
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    1. Anne Laurence, 2008. "The emergence of a private clientele for banks in the early eighteenth century: Hoare's Bank and some women customers1," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 61(3), pages 565-586, August.
    2. Graeme G. Acheson & Gareth Campbell & Áine Gallagher & John D. Turner, 2021. "Independent women: investing in British railways, 1870–1922," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 74(2), pages 471-495, May.
    3. Janette Rutterford & David R. Green & Josephine Maltby & Alastair Owens, 2011. "Who comprised the nation of shareholders? Gender and investment in Great Britain, c. 1870–1935," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 64(1), pages 157-187, February.
    4. Ann M. Carlos & Erin Fletcher & Larry Neal, 2015. "Share portfolios in the early years of financial capitalism: London, 1690–1730," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 68(2), pages 574-599, May.
    5. Carlos, Ann M. & Fletcher, Erin & Neal, Larry, 2012. "Share Portfolios and Risk Management in the Early Years of Financial Capitalism: London 1690-1730," CEI Working Paper Series 2012-12, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.

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