Stationers' Company
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Textual Production | Jane Anger | The title continues: Jane Anger her Protection for Women To defend them against the Scandalous Reportes of a late Surfeiting Lover, and all other like Venerians that complaine so to be overcloyed with womens kindnesse... |
Timeline
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 satiristJoseph Hall
was licensed by the Stationers' Company
as A Discovery of a New World.
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.
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.
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
.
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.
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.
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).
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
.
February 1678: John Bunyan's famous allegorical narrative...
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February 1678
John Bunyan
's famous allegoricalnarrative the Pilgrim's Progress (sometimes later called a novel) was licensed by the Stationers' Company
; it was published this year.
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.
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.
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.
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