I'm doing research for a story set in early 19th-century England, and I'm highly curious about female entrepreneurship and the perceptions surrounding it around that time. Some preliminary Google-fu I've conducted has suggested a much wider scope for it than I expected [1, 2, 3]. I'm particularly interested in how class played into these perceptions; I gather that it might be perceived differently for the widow of a grocer to run her late husband's business than for the daughter of a wealthy London merchant to take up her father's profession.