Between Madam Bubble and Kitty Lorimer: Women investors in British and Irish stock companies

Freeman, Mark; Pearson, Robin; Taylor, James

Abstract

As the pilgrims came to rest on the Enchanted Ground, Mr Stand-fast, in Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress (1684), told his friends of an encounter on the road.

‘As I was thus musing . . . there was one in very pleasant attire, but old, that presented herself unto me . . . [she] said if I would be ruled by her, she would make me great and happy. “For”, said she, “I am the mistress of the world, and men are made happy by me.” Then I asked her name, and she told me it was Madam Bubble’.

Citation

Freeman, M., Pearson, R., & Taylor, J. (2008). Between Madam Bubble and Kitty Lorimer: Women investors in British and Irish stock companies. In A. Laurence, J. Maltby, & J. Rutterford (Eds.), Women and their money, 1700-1950: Essays on women and finance (pp. 95-114). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203885994

• Publication Date: Nov 6, 2008
• Deposit Date: Oct 1, 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 95-114
• Series Title: Routledge International Studies in Business History
• Book Title: Women and their money, 1700-1950: Essays on women and finance
• Chapter Number: 8
• ISBN: 9780415542555; 9780415419765
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203885994
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/396300
• Publisher URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781134111343/chapters/10.4324/9780203885994-14
• Contract Date: Jan 1, 2009