Women in the Private Asylum Business in Nineteenth-Century England (opens in new tab)

This blog post by Rebecca Wynter (NIAS-KNAW and University of Birmingham) and Len Smith (University of Birmingham) is based on a paper presented to the ‘Women & Entrepreneurship: Agency, Experience, and Enterprise’ workshop of the Economic History Society Women’s Committee in December 2025. — Women, so the story goes, were victims of the expansion of […] The post Women in the Private Asylum Business in Nineteenth-Century England appeared first on Economic History Society.