Long overlooked in histories of finance, women played an essential role in areas such as banking and the stock market during the late nineteenth and early twent

Already role models for thousands of investors, the Beardstown Ladies--16 savvy women from rural Beardstown, Illinois--have beaten the stock market for more tha

Women, Literature and Finance in Victorian Britain: Cultures of Investment defines the cultures that emerged in response to the democratization of the stock mar

Presents the story of three extraordinary women determined to claim their fortunes and independence by setting up their own stock exchange, a move that leaves i