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On Their Own in a ‘Man’s World’: Widows in Business in Colonial Australia and New Zealand

In: Female Entrepreneurs in the Long Nineteenth Century

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  • Catherine Bishop

    (Macquarie University)

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Catherine Bishop examines the strategies used by nineteenth-century Australian and New Zealand widows. Widowhood was common, and not limited to the elderly, meaning that women had to find ways of making a living. Surprisingly, perhaps, remarriage was less common for widows than for widowers. Repatriation back to family and friends was one possibility for recent immigrants, but business was also a popular option, particularly as many women were already involved either in family enterprises or in their own businesses. Bishop outlines the variety of enterprises run by widows, illustrating the ubiquity of businesswomen in the colonial economy. They included Indigenous women and white settler women widowed in the colonies as well as several who migrated independently, upsetting our notions of male-headed migration.

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  • Catherine Bishop, 2020. "On Their Own in a ‘Man’s World’: Widows in Business in Colonial Australia and New Zealand," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Jennifer Aston & Catherine Bishop (ed.), Female Entrepreneurs in the Long Nineteenth Century, edition 1, chapter 0, pages 169-193, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-030-33412-3_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-33412-3_7
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