Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Sarah Baskerville
Standard Name: Baskerville, Sarah
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6 April 1775: Sarah Baskerville asserted in a newspaper...
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6 April 1775
Sarah Baskerville
asserted in a newspaper advertisement that she was running the well-known family type foundry with the same care and accuracy that was formerly observed by Mr. Baskerville
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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.
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Barker, Hannah. “Women, work and the industrial revolution: female involvement in the English printing trades, c. 1700-1840”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 81-100.