Mrs Helena Aylward: A British Catholic mother, spouse and businesswoman in the Commercial Age (1705-1714)
Mrs Helena Aylward, as a Catholic merchant and investor, enriches the literature on both female Catholicism and on the Atlantic-Mediterranean trade. Recent historiography has stressed the importance of women in business, but Catholic women have been overlooked in the mercantile world and in the Brit...
| Publié dans: | British Catholic history |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2017]
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British Catholic history
Année: 2017, Volume: 33, Numéro: 4, Pages: 603-621 |
| Classifications IxTheo: | KAH Époque moderne KBF Îles britanniques KDB Église catholique romaine NBE Anthropologie NCE Éthique des affaires |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Women
B British B Merchant B Commerce B Catholicism |
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| Résumé: | Mrs Helena Aylward, as a Catholic merchant and investor, enriches the literature on both female Catholicism and on the Atlantic-Mediterranean trade. Recent historiography has stressed the importance of women in business, but Catholic women have been overlooked in the mercantile world and in the British fiscal-military economy. I contend that female Catholics were accustomed to their husband's dealings, and after bereavement, took financial responsibility for the family's business. Helena was proactive and did not limit herself to the exchanges already established by her husband. She moved independently and diversified her trade with financial investments. Mrs Aylward's involvement in business challenges the prevailing image of Catholic women as wives, patrons or nuns. She suggests a new economic role for British female Catholics: entrepreneurs that succeeded in a Protestant and patriarchal maritime world. |
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| ISSN: | 2055-7981 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: British Catholic history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/bch.2017.27 |