Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Eleanor Coade
Standard Name: Coade, Eleanor
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1769: Eleanor Coade (1733-1821) began commercial...
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1769
Eleanor Coade
(1733-1821) began commercial production of Coade stone, a material made to a secret recipe, used for garden ornaments and said to be both more workable and more durable than natural stone.
Brown, Jane. The Pursuit of Paradise: A Social History of Gardens and Gardening. HarperCollins, 2000.
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“Women in Trade”. John Johnson Collection Exhibition 2001. Bodleian Library, 2001.
1821: The outstanding business woman Eleanor Coade...
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1821
The outstanding business woman Eleanor Coade
died, leaving a substantial self-made fortune to charities (including the British and Foreign Bible Society
) and to individuals, two-thirds of them women.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family in England, 1680-1780. University of California Press, 1996.
