Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Thomas Slack
Standard Name: Slack, Thomas
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ann Fisher | Just after her thirty-second birthday, AF
married Newcastle publisher and bookseller Thomas Slack
, who was about three or four years younger. |
| 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, No. 33, C A Parsons and Company, pp. 131 -38. 136 Rodriguez-Gil, Maria. “Deconstructing Female Conventions: Ann Fisher (1719-1778)”. Historiographia Linguistica: International Journal for the History of Language Sciences, No. 1-2, John Benjamins, pp. 11 -38. 31 |
| 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, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
| Textual Production | Ann Fisher | 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... |
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