Finance ✦ Penny’s Take
The Foundations of Female Entrepreneurship
Alison C. Kay · 2009
74/100
👍 Worth It
For its intended audience — historians, business history scholars, and graduate students — this is a rigorously researched and genuinely revelatory work that challenges a longstanding blind spot in Victorian economic history. The archival record-linkage methodology is impressive, and the comparative male-female business data is analytically sharp. General readers should look elsewhere, but within its academic lane this is a strong contribution.
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safety95
substance85
craft65
originality82
accuracy88
hype85
age-fit70
human-eye68
Penny’s verdict74
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