Women in the Provincial Print Trade, 1700-1830

妇女作为生产者和分销商在省级印刷市场上的作用是一个未充分探讨的问题。为了公正地看待妇女在漫长的18世纪中的活动范围，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妇女在英国地区印刷业中的运作方式。我的项目将调查广泛的中部地区印刷业中的妇女，包括广泛的和经常互换的角色所承担的印刷贸易工人，包括造纸，印刷，装订，出版和作为书商，小贩，文具，和图书馆业主。从事这一行业的妇女人数被低估了，因此该项目是及时和紧迫的。根据现有的研究，1550年至1700年期间，大约有50名妇女在伦敦以外经营（贝尔，1996年），在接下来的一个世纪里，整个英国贸易中有437名妇女（巴克，1996年）。然而，对英国图书贸易指数（BBTI）的初步调查给出了1700年至1830年间在伦敦以外地区工作的女性的1,000多条记录，其中350条仅在中部地区。我的项目将建立有价值的新的职业女性案例研究，恢复该地区女性生产者的名字。它将探讨女性书商的贸易途径，特别是寡妇接管现有的家庭企业;确定妇女销售和生产的产品;并将妇女作为其贸易中值得信赖的伙伴和积极的代理人，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经营的程度，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，拥有包括大型贸易中心、主要教练城镇和农村社区在内的景观，中部地区提供了一系列妇女经验的范例。介绍1700- 1830年省级印刷业中妇女的原始研究和新案例研究。查明妇女从事贸易、经营企业和建立专业伙伴关系的方式。确定和评估妇女出版、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.