Anne Laurence is Professor of History at the Open University and author of Women in England 1500-1760: A Social History. Josephine Maltby is Professor of Accounting and Finance, University of York. Janette Rutterford is Professor of Finance at The Open University and author of Introduction to Stock Exchange Investment.

• 1. Introduction Anne Laurence, Josephine Maltby, Janette Rutterford2. Women and Finance in Eighteenth-Century England Anne Laurence 3. Women in the City: Finanical Acumen During the South Sea Bubble Ann Carlos, Karen Maguire and Larry Neal4. Women, Banks and the Securities Market in Early Eighteenth-Century England Anne Laurence 5. Women Investors and Financial Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Germany Eve Rosenhaft6. Accounting for Business: Financial Management in the Eighteenth Century Christine Wiskin 7. Women and Wealth: The Nineteenth Century in Great Britain Lucy A. Newton, Philip L. Cottrell, Josephine Maltby and Janette Rutterford8. Between Madam Bubble and Kitty Lorimer: Women Investors in British and Irish Stock Companies Mark Freeman, Robin Pearson and James Taylor9. Female Investors in the First English and Welsh Commercial Joint-Stock Banks Lucy A. Newton and Philip L. Cottrell10. To Do the Right Thing: Gender, Wealth, Inheritance and the London Middle Class David Green11. Women and Wealth in Fiction in the Long Nineteenth Century 1800-1914 Josephine Maltby and Janette Rutterford12. Octavia Hill: Property Manager and Accountant Stephen Walker 13. Female Investors Within the Scottish Investment Trust Movement in the 1870s Claire Swan14. Women Clerical Staff Employed in the U.K.-Based Army Pay Department Establishments 1914-1920 John Black 15. Women and Money: The United States Nancy Robertson and Susan M. Yohn 16. "Men Seem to Take Delight in Cheating Women": Legal Challenges Faced by Businesswomen in the United States, 1880-1920 Susan M.Yohn17. "The Principles of Sound Banking and Financial Noblesse Oblige": Women's Departments in U.S. Banks at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Nancy Robertson18. Women, Money and the Financial Revolution: A Gender Perspective on the Development of the Swedish Financial System, c.1860–1920 Tom Petersson19. Women’s Wealth and Finance in Nineteenth-Century Milan Stefania Licini20. The Transformation From "Thrifty Accountant" to "Independent Investor": The Changing Relationship of Japanese Women and Finance Under the Influence of Globalization? Naoko Komori