Gillian Tett

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1,226 appearances 12 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 2 Sep

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The Story of Money · The 18th-century woman who made saving possible for the poor · 27 May 2026 podcast

I'd like to know more about her. voice-verified

Or Warren Buffett. voice-verified

She was a female Warren Buffett in some ways. voice-verified

She was absolutely. voice-verified

Valued by society. voice-verified

So she put out this book, I believe, in 1798, called Reflections on the Conditions of the Female Sex, which isn't wildly snappy as a title, but is actually very profound. voice-verified

And it includes a very thought-provoking quote here, which is also quite long, but is worth reading out. voice-verified

Can it be accounted for on any other ground than that of prejudice in a country like England where commerce forms one of the principal sinews of the national strength? voice-verified

that degradation should attend the female who engages in the concerns of commerce, and she whose sense and resolution enable her to support herself, is banished from that line of company of which she perhaps previously had forged a distinguished ornament. voice-verified

I mean essentially what she's saying is that this country's voice-verified

going all in for commerce and financial revolution, but it looks down on women who actually go out and work for a living. voice-verified

Now, in the middle of all that what I find interesting is there's some evidence in historical records that after voice-verified

this extraordinary career and then an ex long period where she essentially had to bail everyone out or at least support them all, she herself then became quite sick. voice-verified

and ended up in what was then called a madhouse. voice-verified

Um, she was apparently a patient for peroxins, as they called it there, which might have been voice-verified

any form of types of, you know, medical condition. voice-verified

It could have been postmenopausal depression. voice-verified

or just a general sort of sense of malaise. voice-verified

Um they called it them female hysteria. voice-verified

Um and apparently she went to a very notorious madhouse called Barnes in Hoxton. voice-verified

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