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Victorian woman shares what it was like to own a business for women in the 1800s

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Mrs. Florence Pannel shares what it was like to own a business for women in the 1800s .

"No lady worked in those days . It was only a companion or a teacher," Mrs. Pannel says.

Women in the UK were allowed to open businesses on their own in 1870 when The Married Women’s Property Act is passed.