LC subject headings:

Women in the Book Industries and Trade

Women Printers

Women Publishers

Contents:

I. Bibliographies and indexes

II. Biographical dictionaries

III. Monographs and articles

I. Bibliographies and indexes

Frey, Linda. Women in Western European History: A Select Chronological, Geographical, and Topical Bibliography. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1982. First Supplement, 1986.

Loeb, Catherine. Women's Studies: A Recommended Core Bibliography. Littleton CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1987.

II. Biographical dictionaries

Bell, Maureen, George Parfitt, and Simon Shepherd. A Biographical Dictionary of English Women Writers, 1580-1720. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1990.

A Dictionary of British and American Women Writers 1660-1800, ed. Janet Todd. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Allanheld, 1985.

The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present, ed. Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy. New Haven: Yale UP, 1990.

III. Monographs and articles

Alkan, Alphonse. Les Femmes Compositrices d'Imprimerie sous la Revolution Française en 1794. Paris: Dentu, 1862.

Antique Modern & Swash: a Brief history of Women in Printing. NY: Club of Printing Women of New York, 1955.

Barker, Hannah. "Women, Work and the Industrial Revolution: Female Involvement in the English Printing Trades, c. 1700-1840." Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities. Ed. by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus. London, NY: Longman, 1997. Pp. 81-100.

Barlow, Marjorie, ed. Notes on Women Printers in Colonial America and the United States, 1639-1975. Charlottesville: UP of Va, 1976. 89p.

Bell, M. "A Dictionary of Women in the London Book Trade 1540-1730." M.L.S. thesis, Loughborough U. of Technology, 1983.

_____. "Elizabeth Calvert and the 'Confederates.'" Publishing History 32 (1992):5-49.

_____. "Hannah Allen and the Development of a Puritan Publishing Business, 1646-51." Publishing History 26 (1989):5-66.

_____. "Mary Westwood, Quaker Publisher." Publishing History 23 (1988):5-66.

_____. "'Her Usual Practices': The Later Career of Elizabeth Calvert, 1664-75." Publishing History 35 (1994):5-64.

_____. "Women and the Opposition Press after the Restoration." Writing and Radicalism. Ed. by John Lucas. London, NY: Longman, 1996.

_____. "Women in the English Book Trade 1557-1700." Leipziger Jahrbuch zir Buchgeschichte. Forthcoming.

_____. "Women Publishers of Puritan Literature in the Mid-Seventeenth Century: Three Case Studies." Ph.D. diss., Loughborough U of Technology, 1987.

Biggs, Mary. "Neither Printer's Wife nor Widow: American Women in Typesetting." Library Quarterly 50(Oct., 1980): 431-52.

Blumenthal, Joseph. "Colonial Women." The Printed Book in America. Hanover, NH: Published for Dartmouth College by UP of New England, 1989.

Bogardus, Janet. Some Bibliographical Notes about Women in Printing. NY: Parkway, 1937.

Brant, Clare, and Diane Purkiss, eds. Women, Texts, and Histories: 1575-1760. London, NY: Routledge, 1992.

Brownley, Martine Watson. "Samuel Johnson and the Printing Career of Hester Lynch Piozzi." Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 67.2 (Spring, 1985):623-640.

Demeter, Richard L. Primer, Presses, and Composing Sticks: Women Printers of the Colonial Period. Hicksville, NY: Exposition P, 1979. 155p.

Feather, John. "Appendix I: Ellen Feepound's Book Stock." The Provincial Book Trade in Eighteenth-Century England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985. -x'd

Fergus, Jan, and Janice Thaddeus. "Women, Publishers, and Money, 1790-1820." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 17 (1987):191-207.

Folger Collective on Early Women Critics, ed. Women Critics, 1660-1820: an Anthology. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 1995.

Gallagher, Catherine. Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of Women Writers in the Marketplace, 1670-1820. Berkeley, Los Angeles: U of California P, 1995.

Gies, Dorothy. "Some Early Ladies of the Book Trade." Publishers Weekly 138 (1940): 1424-26.

Goldsmith, Elizabeth C., and Dena Goodman, eds. Going Public: Women and Publishing in Early Modern France. Ithaca, London: Cornell UP, 1995.

Greenberg, Janelle. "The Legal Status of the English Woman in Early Eighteenth-Century Common Law and Equity." Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 4 (1975):171-81.

Grundy, Isobel. "Samuel Johnson As Patron of Women." The Age of Johnson 1 (1987):59-77.*

Hamill, Frances. "Some Unconventional Women before 1800: Printers, Booksellers, and Collectors." PBSA 49 (1955):300-14.

Hanaford, Phebe A. "Women Printers" in Daughters of America: or, Women of the Century. Augusta, Me.: True & Co., n.d. [1882?] pp. 687-96.

Hill, Bridget. Women, Work, and Sexual Politics in Eighteenth-Century England. Oxford, NY: Basil Blackwell, 1989.

Hobby, Elaine. Virtues of Necessity: English Women's Writing 1649-88. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, c. 1988.

Hollady, Gae, and O. M. Brack, Jr. "Johnson As Patron." Greene Centennial Studies: Essays Presented to Donald Greene in the Centennial Year of the University of Southern California. Eds. Paul J. Korshin and Robert P. Allen. Charlottesville, Va.: UP of Va., 1984. 172-99.

Horden, John. "'In the Savoy': John Nutt and His Family." Publishing History 24 (1988): 5-26.

Hudak, Leona M. Early American Women Printers and Publishers, 1639-1820. Metuchen: Scarecrow, 1978. 820p.

Hunt, Felicity. "The London Trade in the Printing and Binding of Books: An Experience in Exclusion, Dilution and Deskilling for Women Workers." Women's Studies International Forum 6 (1983):517-24.

Hunt, Margaret, et al. Women and the Enlightenment. NY: Institute for Research in History; Haworth P, 1984. 93p.

Hunt, Tamara. "Women's Participation in the Eighteenth-Century English Publishing Trades." Leipziger Jahrbuch für Buchgeschichte (1994):47-65.

Lenky, Susan V. "Printers' Wives in the Age of Humanism." Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1975: 331-7.

Levinson, Roger. Women in Printing: Northern California, 1857-90. 1994?

Lone, Emma Miriam. "Some Bookwomen of the 15th Century." The Colophon 11 (1932): [n.p.].

MacCarthy, B. G. The Female Pen: Women Writers and Novelists 1621-1818. (Orig. pub'd 1944 in 2 vol.)

MacDonald, James Ramsay, ed. Women in the Printing Trades. NY: Garland, 1980. Z 243 .G7 M32 1980. (Reprint of 1904.)

McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace 1678-1730. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1998.

Maruca, Lisa Marie. "Production Values: Gender, Authorship, and the Print Trade in England, 1660-1760." Diss. Case Western Reserve U., 1997.

Meiner, Annamarie. "Die Frau in Druckgewerbe." Guttenberg Jahrbuch 1933:___?

Messenger, Ann. His and Hers: Essays in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature. Lexing: UP of Kentucky, 1986.

Mitchell, C. J. "Women in the Eighteenth-Century Book Trades." Writers, Books, and Trade: an Eighteenth-Century Miscellany for William B. Todd. Ed. by O.M. Brack, Jr. NY: AMS P, 1995.

Nash, Ray. "Women in American Printing." American Printer 88 (June 1929):58-60.

Oldham, Ellen M. "Early Women Printers of America." Boston Public Library Quarterly (Jan. 1958) 10:6-25; 10:78-91; 10:141-53.

Rather, Lois. Women as Printers. Oakland: Rather Press, 1970. 72p.

Richards, Eric. "Women in the British Economy since 1700: An Interpretation." History 59 (1974):342.

Rostenberg, Leona. "Richard and Anne Baldwin, Whig Patriot Publishers." The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 47 (1953):1-42.

________, Paulette Rose, and Madeleine B. Stern. "Gender and the Book Trade: A Few Personal Encounters." AB Bookman's Weekly ____ (March 21, 1994):1225-31.

Schilpp, Madelon Golden, and Sharon M. Murphy. Great Women of the Press. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1983. 248p. PN 4872 .S34 1983.

Schneller, Beverly Elain. "Mary Cooper and Periodical Publishing, 1743-1761." Journal of Newspaper and Periodical History 6.2 (1990):31-35.

________. "Mary Cooper, Eighteenth-Century London Bookseller: A Bibliography." Diss. Catholic U of America, 1987.

_____. "Using Newspaper Advertisements to Study the Book Trade: a Year in the Life of Mary Cooper." Writers, Books, and Trade: an Eighteenth-Century Miscellany for William B. Todd. Ed. O. M. Brack. NY: AMS P, 1994. Pp. 123-43.

Stanton, Judith Phillips. "Charlotte Smith's 'Literary Business': Income, Patronage, and Indigence." The Age of Johnson 1 (1987):375-401.

Staves, Susan. Married Women's Property Rights in England, 1660-1833. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1990.

Turner, Cheryl. Living by the Pen: Women Writers in the Eighteenth Century. London, NY: Routledge, 1992.

Uphaus, Robert W., and Gretchen M. Foster, eds. The "Other" Eighteenth Century: English Women of Letters 1660-1800. East Lansing: Colleagues P, 1991.

Laura Sue Fuderer,

Subject Librarian for English

and French Literature,

University of Notre Dame

9/9/99