Just after her thirty-second birthday, AF
married Newcastle publisher and bookseller Thomas Slack
, who was about three or four years younger.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships
Ann Fisher
Thomas Slack
, husband of AF
, published the first number of his Newcastle Chronicle; the paper continued in the family for eighty-six years, becoming a leading Liberal
voice in the region.
Horsley, P. M. “Some Local Ladies of the Eighteenth Century”. Heaton Works Journal, Vol.
6
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Rodriguez-Gil, Maria. “Deconstructing Female Conventions: Ann Fisher (1719-1778)”. Historiographia Linguistica: International Journal for the History of Language Sciences, Vol.
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Publishing
Ann Fisher
The printer and publisher of the Newcastle edition (not the one attributing it to D. Fisher) was Isaac Thompson
, for whose firm Thomas Slack
(Fisher's future husband) was then working.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
From 1769 AF
, signing herself a Lady, produced an annual diary or almanac, printed at both London and Newcastle, entitled The Ladies' Own Memorandum-Book. It went on appearing until 1805, and...
