The Character of Credit
Personal Debt in English Culture, 1740–1914

"...an ambitious and important book...highly recommended..." EH.NET

"This is not just a book that deserves to be widely read, but a book which ought to prompt and guide a great deal of further research by historians following the paths opened up by Margot Finn." Institute of Historical Research

"Social History at its very best." Victorian Studies

"... fascinating and convincing new book... an important, accomplished, and highly informative work, and a valuable addition not only to the history of money in England but also to the work devoted to the social life of the economy." H-Albion (H-Net)

"Finn's excellent book offers both an important history of retail credit in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and a model of intelligent interdisciplinary history...Finn's analytic brilliance, her skill in weaving together many narratives , her ability to synthesize a massive body of recent scholarship will be valuable to historians, economists, lawyers, and literary scholars." Susan Staves, Brandeis University

"This is a rich book. Indeed, as the first book in the new Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories series it sets an impressively high standard." Working, Julian Hoppit, University College of London

"A wonderful book...this is an admirable work of scholarship, based on a wealth of primary sources. It will be read with advantage by business, economic, and social historians alike." Business History Review, Robin Pearson