A review by pearl35
The Women of the House: How a Colonial She-Merchant Built a Mansion, a Fortune, and a Dynasty by Jean Zimmerman

4.0

A multi-generational study of a Dutch family in colonial New York, centered on the wealth built by several clever and well-endowed wives who managed the trading business, and the abrupt transition from Dutch law (which favored women as property owners and business actors) to English regulation after 1665.