Stationers' Company

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Aphra Behn
One of AB 's best-known comedies, The Feign'd Curtizans; or, A Night's Intrigue, was licensed by the Stationers' Company ; it probably opened that month at Dorset Garden .
The London Stage notes that...

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18 January 1609: John Healey's English version of the Latin...

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18 January 1609

John Healey 's English version of the Latin Mundus alter et idem, 1605, by satirist Joseph Hall was licensed by the Stationers' Company as A Discovery of a New World.
Borne Back Daily. 2001, http://borneback.com/ .
8 September 2008

20 May 1609: Shakespeare's Sonnets were registered with...

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20 May 1609

Shakespeare 's Sonnets were registered with the Stationers' Company ; they were published (whether by the author or as some kind of piracy) the same year.
Kay, Dennis. Shakespeare: His Life, Work, and Era. William Morrow, 1992.
12
Shakespeare, William. “Introduction”. Sonnets, edited by Alfred Leslie Rowse, Macmillan, 1964, p. vii - xxxvii.
xiii
Everett, Barbara. “Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Sonnet”. London Review of Books, Vol.
30
, No. 4, 8 May 2008, pp. 12-15.
12-13

12 December 1610: The Stationers' Company agreed to deposit,...

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12 December 1610

The Stationers' Company agreed to deposit, free of charge, in the Bodleian Library one copy of every book that was published.
Barnard, John. “Politics, Profits and ?Idealism: John Norton, The Stationers’ Company and Sir Thomas Bodley”. Bodleian Library Record, Vol.
xvii
, No. 6, Oct. 2002, pp. 385-30.
399

8 November 1623: Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies,...

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8 November 1623

Shakespeare 's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies, collected (with one or two omissions) and posthumously published this year in a handsome large-format edition (the First Folio) were registered with the Stationers' Company .
Dobson, Michael. “Whatever you do, buy”. London Review of Books, 15 Nov. 2001, pp. 8-10.
8-9
Kay, Dennis. Shakespeare: His Life, Work, and Era. William Morrow, 1992.
12
Lea, Richard. “Shakespeare’s First Folio fetches ¥2.8m”. Guardian Unlimited, 13 July 2006.
Smith, Emma. Shakespeare’s First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book. Oxford University Press, 2016.
2-3, 16, 56

16 November 1635: The Stationers' Company ruled that journeymen...

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16 November 1635

The Stationers' Company ruled that journeymen were to remove paper from the printing press themselves, and not use girls and boys to do it.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
46

1637: The Star Chamber Decree Concerning Printing...

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1637

The Star ChamberDecree Concerning Printing forbade non-members of the Stationers' Company to sell books retail. This ruling would have barred all women from the publishing business; but it was not observed.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
52

June 1643: The Long Parliament took a decisive step...

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June 1643

The Long Parliament took a decisive step towards re-establishing government control over printing: a Licensing Order was enacted to take over the censorship function formerly exercised by the Court of the Star Chamber and relinquished...

1 August 1643: Milton published The Doctrine and Discipline...

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1 August 1643

Milton published The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce, a pamphlet arguing that divorce ought to be easier (for a husband).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Milton

1666: Joanna Nye, an Essex parson's daughter, was...

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1666

Joanna Nye , an Essex parson's daughter, was bound apprentice to Thomas Minshall , engraver: the first woman so bound, under the Act for the Encouragement of Learning, to the Stationers' Company .
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
35

February 1678: John Bunyan's famous allegorical narrative...

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February 1678

John Bunyan 's famous allegorical narrative the Pilgrim's Progress (sometimes later called a novel) was licensed by the Stationers' Company ; it was published this year.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

By early 1691: Tace Sowle, aged twenty-five, took over from...

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By early 1691

Tace Sowle , aged twenty-five, took over from her elderly father, Andrew , the family printing firm (which that year distributed books to 151 Quaker meetings, as well as bookshops in England, Europe, and the...

1693: John Dunton dedicated volume 11 of his Athenian...

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1693

John Dunton dedicated volume 11 of his Athenian Mercury to the fictional Worshipfull Society of Mercury-Women . . . of London.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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By mid-1695: The government's failure to renew the Printing...

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By mid-1695

The government's failure to renew the Printing or Licensing Act ended pre-publication censorship (through the need to obtain a licence), as well as controls on the number of master printers.
McDowell, Paula. “Women and the business of print”. Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800, edited by Vivien Jones, Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 135-54.
137-8
Bozman, Ernest Franklin, editor. Everyman’s Encyclopaedia. 4th Edition, J. M. Dent, 1958, 12 vols.
9: 216
Brewer, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1997.
132

14 February 1744: Following the deaths, intestate, of her husband,...

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14 February 1744

Following the deaths, intestate, of her husband, Henry Beighton , and their only son, Elizabeth Beighton secured, with some difficulty, the editorial or managerial role in The Ladies' Diary for herself.
Miegon, Anna E. The Ladies Diary and the Emergence of the Almanac for Women, 1704-1753. Simon Fraser University, Sept. 2008.
162ff, 168, 172, 175, 183-4

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