Crime, gender and consumer culture in nineteenth -century england.
[Book]
[Place of publication not identified]
ROUTLEDGE,
2016.
1 volume ; 24 cm.
The history of retailing and consumption
Destroying 'the nation of shopkeepers': Ready money only: small shops and new retail methods -- Vanity fairs: the growth of bazaars and fancy fairs -- 'Mothers beware!': fraud by the retailer -- The culture of fraud and the female consumer -- Criminal consumption: Shoplifting in early nineteenth-century England -- Mrs. McGregor's sealskin jacket: female frauds and the art of buying without paying -- Solving the problem of the criminal consumer: women and kleptomania.