The well-known social historian Elizabeth E. Dexter in her study [1],
dedicated to women engaged in business in colonial America, wrote that almost a tenth of Boston's merchants were represented by women. For 1740 -1775 years. only in the newspaper "Boston Evening Post" appeared about 60 names of shopkeepers and shops [2]. In one of the numerous ads in this newspaper, "various types of fabrics, headgear of the latest styles, jewelry, women's shoes, stockings, gloves, needles and threads" were advertised "[3]. Such advertising was ordinary, ordinary, which can not be said about the fate of a woman who was her author. Elizabeth Murray Campbell Smith Inman (1726 - 1785) belonged to the category of people who "made themselves" in business. And this is about a lady who lived in the XVIII century, when about opportunities for women, and women's rights can be spoken only within the "home sphere."
Mrs. James Smith (Elizabeth Murray), By John Singleton Copley, 1769. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Elizabeth Murray, a native of Scotland, grew up in a family where she also had two older brothers and a sister - James, John and Barbara. In 1737, after the death of both parents, the children were left in the care of their elder brother, a novice trader. Two years later, James decided to move his family to North Carolina, where he purchased a plantation. In the new house, Elizabeth served as a housekeeper, acquiring the first knowledge and skills of managing the household. Further knowledge in economics and business a seventeen-year-old girl got, having gone together with her elder brother for several years to London. In the capital, the most industrialized, at that time European country, Elizabeth saw numerous shops with a variety of goods from around the world, owned by women. This made a strong impression on her, the consequence of which was the decision to stay in Boston in 1749, after returning to the colony with his brother's family. A year later she opened her first ladies' store from England. Over the next decade, she visited London several times to supplement her knowledge and skills in business and accounting, and to establish new business ties.
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dedicated to women engaged in business in colonial America, wrote that almost a tenth of Boston's merchants were represented by women. For 1740 -1775 years. only in the newspaper "Boston Evening Post" appeared about 60 names of shopkeepers and shops [2]. In one of the numerous ads in this newspaper, "various types of fabrics, headgear of the latest styles, jewelry, women's shoes, stockings, gloves, needles and threads" were advertised "[3]. Such advertising was ordinary, ordinary, which can not be said about the fate of a woman who was her author. Elizabeth Murray Campbell Smith Inman (1726 - 1785) belonged to the category of people who "made themselves" in business. And this is about a lady who lived in the XVIII century, when about opportunities for women, and women's rights can be spoken only within the "home sphere."
Mrs. James Smith (Elizabeth Murray), By John Singleton Copley, 1769. Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Elizabeth Murray, a native of Scotland, grew up in a family where she also had two older brothers and a sister - James, John and Barbara. In 1737, after the death of both parents, the children were left in the care of their elder brother, a novice trader. Two years later, James decided to move his family to North Carolina, where he purchased a plantation. In the new house, Elizabeth served as a housekeeper, acquiring the first knowledge and skills of managing the household. Further knowledge in economics and business a seventeen-year-old girl got, having gone together with her elder brother for several years to London. In the capital, the most industrialized, at that time European country, Elizabeth saw numerous shops with a variety of goods from around the world, owned by women. This made a strong impression on her, the consequence of which was the decision to stay in Boston in 1749, after returning to the colony with his brother's family. A year later she opened her first ladies' store from England. Over the next decade, she visited London several times to supplement her knowledge and skills in business and accounting, and to establish new business ties.
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