Women in the Provincial Print Trade, 1700-1830

妇女在省级印刷市场中作为生产者和发行者的作用是一个未被充分开发的主题。为了公正地看待漫长的18世纪女性活动的范围，我的项目将采取跨学科的方法，对书史、贸易史和性别史做出重大贡献，使用原始档案研究来确定女性如何在英国地区的印刷业工作。我的项目将调查在广阔的米德兰地区从事印刷业的女性，包括印刷贸易工作者所扮演的广泛且经常互换的角色，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，这使得该项目变得及时而紧迫。根据现有的学术研究，在1550年至1700年(贝尔，1996年)之间，大约有50名妇女在伦敦以外的地区工作，在接下来的一个世纪里，有437名妇女在整个英国贸易中(巴克，1996年)。然而，对英国图书贸易指数(BBTI)的初步调查显示，1700年至1830年期间在伦敦以外地区工作的女性有1000多项记录，其中仅中部地区就有350项。我的项目将建立关于职业女性的有价值的新案例研究，恢复该地区女性制片人的名字。它将探索女性书商进入贸易的途径，特别是作为接管现有家族企业的寡妇；确定妇女销售和生产什么；并在其行业中将妇女作为值得信赖的合作伙伴和积极代理人，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，论文还将确定女性在新的和已建立的网络中运作的程度，她们的客户是谁，并评估她们在社区中的地位。作为一个工业发展中心，拥有大型贸易中心、主要培训城镇和农村社区，米德兰兹地区提供了一系列妇女经历的例子。目的：1.介绍1700-1830.2年度省级印刷业妇女的原始研究和新的案例研究。确定妇女从事贸易、经营企业和结成专业伙伴关系的方式。识别和评估妇女出版、印刷和/或分发的材料。

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.