Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University
- Jennifer Aston is a Senior Lecturer in History at Northumbria University at Newcastle, UK.
- Her research focuses on the complex relationship between gender, entrepreneurship, and the law in the long nineteenth century.
- Co-founder of Researching Women of Management and Enterprise Network (ReWOMEN)
- Key Publications:
- Catherine Bishop, Jennifer Aston and Carry Van Lieshout, ‘Bringing Women to a Count: A transnational methodological experiment researching nineteenth-century businesswomen’, Australian Historical Studies (forthcoming, 2021)
- Jennifer Aston and Catherine Bishop [eds], Female Entrepreneurs in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Global Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)
- Jennifer Aston, Amanda Capern and Briony McDonagh, ‘More than bricks and mortar: female property ownership as economic strategy in mid-nineteenth-century urban England’ in Urban History, 1-27 (Published online February 2019)
- Amanda Capern, Briony McDonagh & Jennifer Aston [eds], Women and the Land, 1500-1900 (Boydell and Brewer, 2019)
- Jennifer Aston and Paolo Di Martino, ‘Risk, Success, and Failure: Female and Male Entrepreneurship in Late Victorian and Edwardian England’, Economic History Review, 70:3 (2017), pp. 837–858
- Jennifer Aston, Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth Century England: Engagement in the Urban Economy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
