Two Nonconformist Women Printers and Booksellers in the Mid-Eighteenth Century

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 24; pp. 65 - 84
• Main Author: McNaught, Alison
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2020
• Subjects: 18th century; 19th century; Case studies; Censorship; Committees; Imprisonment; Literacy; Printers; Publishing industry; Quakers; Religion; Society; Women

In turn, support from Nonconformist individuals and denominations was a critical element to their own survival at a time when increasing pressure from industrialisation and social responses to the gendering of domestic, private and public spheres began to exclude women from the literary market place...