Unexceptional Women: Female Proprietors in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Albany, New York, 1830-1885Unexceptional Women: Female Proprietors in Mid Nineteenth Century Albany, New York, 1830 1885 by Susan Ingalls Lewis challenges our conceptions about mid nineteenth century American women, business, and labor, offering a detailed study of female proprietors in one industrializing American city. Analyzing the careers of more than two thousand women who owned or operated businesses between 1830 and 1885, Lewis argues that business provided a common,