Women in the Provincial Print Trade, 1700-1830

省印刷行业的女性，1700-1830 年

• 批准号: 2893524
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Keele University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2893524
• 关键词: Women; Provincial; Print; Trade; 1700

The role of women as producers and distributors in the provincial print market is an underexploredsubject. Doing justice to the range of women's activity in the long eighteenth century, my project willtake an interdisciplinary approach, making significant contributions to book history, trade history andgender history, using original archive research to establish how women operated in the Englishregional print trade.My project will survey women working in the print trade across the broad Midlands area,encompassing the wide and often interchanging roles undertaken by print trade workers includingpapermaking, printing, bookbinding, publishing and as booksellers, hawkers, stationers, and libraryowners. The numbers of women working in the trade have been underestimated, making the projecttimely and urgent. According to existing scholarship, approximately 50 women operated outside ofLondon between 1550 and 1700 (Bell, 1996), and 437 in the entire English trade in the followingcentury (Barker, 1996). However, preliminary interrogation of the British Book Trade Index (BBTI)gives over 1,000 records for women working outside of London between 1700 and 1830, 350 of whichwere based in the wider Midlands region alone.My project will establish valuable new case studies of working women, restoring the names of womenproducers in the region. It will explore the route into trade for female booksellers, particularly aswidows taking over an existing family business; establish what women sold and produced; andpresent women as trusted partners and active agents in their trade, particularly in examples wherewomen have taken over businesses previously run by other women. Where evidence allows, thethesis will also establish the extent to which women operated within new and established networks,who their customers were, and assess their standing in their communities. As a centre of industrialdevelopment with a landscape encompassing large trade centres, key coaching towns and ruralcommunities, the Midlands region offers examples of a range of women's experiences.Aims:1. To present original research and new case studies of women in the provincial print trade, 1700-1830.2. To identify the ways in which women accessed trade, operated their businesses, and formedprofessional partnerships.3. To identify and assess the material published, printed and/or distributed by women.

妇女作为生产者和分销商在省级印刷市场中的作用是一个未被充分探讨的主题。为了公正地对待女性在漫长的18世纪的活动范围，我的项目将采取跨学科的方法，对图书史、贸易史和性别史做出重大贡献，利用原始档案研究来确定女性在英国地区印刷贸易中的运作方式。我的项目将调查在广阔的中部地区从事印刷业的女性，包括印刷业工人所从事的广泛而经常互换的角色，包括造纸、印刷、装订、出版以及书商、小贩、文具商和图书馆老板。从事这一行业的妇女人数被低估了，这使得该项目既及时又紧迫。根据现有的学术研究，在1550年至1700年间，大约有50名女性在伦敦以外的地方经营（Bell, 1996），在接下来的一个世纪里，整个英国贸易中有437名女性（Barker, 1996）。然而，对英国图书贸易指数（BBTI）的初步调查显示，1700年至1830年间，在伦敦以外地区工作的女性超过1000人，其中350人在更广泛的米德兰兹地区工作。我的项目将建立有价值的职业妇女新案例研究，恢复该地区女性生产者的名字。它将探索女性书商的贸易路线，特别是那些接管现有家族企业的寡妇；确定妇女销售和生产什么；并将妇女作为值得信赖的合作伙伴和贸易中的积极代理人，特别是在妇女接管以前由其他妇女经营的企业的例子中。在证据允许的情况下，论文还将确定妇女在新的和已建立的网络中活动的程度，她们的顾客是谁，并评估她们在社区中的地位。作为工业发展的中心，米德兰兹地区的景观包括大型贸易中心、主要的教练城镇和农村社区，提供了一系列妇女经历的例子。展示原创性研究和新案例研究的妇女在省级印刷贸易，1700-1830.2。2 .确定妇女进入贸易、经营企业和建立专业伙伴关系的途径。识别和评估由妇女出版、印刷和/或分发的材料。