Abstract
Drawing on a raft of data about women's business activities in Boston, 1780–1830, the article shows that widows and single women succeeded in a highly competitive marketplace by trading on their complex and diverse skills, business acumen, and personal connections and by strategically marketing gentility to an expanding middle-class.
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