Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Abigail Baldwin
Standard Name: Baldwin, Abigail
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1698: On the death of publisher Richard Baldwin...
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1698
On the death of publisher Richard Baldwin
from a slow consumption, his widow, Abigail
, took over the business in name; she had in fact been running it for several years.
Bracken, James K., and Joel Silver, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 170. Gale Research, 1996.
170: 5, 8-10
Feminist Companion Archive.
8 July 1709-31 March 1710: The thrice-weekly Female Tatler appeared,...
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8 July 1709-31 March 1710
The thrice-weekly Female Tatler appeared, an explicitly woman-centred riposte to the condescending or gender-prejudiced element in Richard Steele
's still-new Tatler.
The Female Tatler. Sold by B. Bragge, 1-111.
Prescott, Sarah, and Jane Spencer. “Prattling, tattling and knowing everything: public authority and the female editorial persona in the early essay-periodical”. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vol.
23
, No. 1, 1 Mar.–31 May 2000, pp. 43-57.
44, 45 and n7, 48-9
Mandeville, Bernard. “Introduction”. By a Society of Ladies: Essays in The Female Tatler, edited by Maurice Marks Goldsmith, University of Durham; Thoemmes, 1999.
5 October 1710: A Whig periodical entitled the Medley was...
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
270
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
November 1713: James Roberts, the most prolific trade publisher...
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November 1713
James Roberts
, the most prolific trade publisher in London in the earlier eighteenth century, took over the business from his mother-in-law, Abigail Baldwin
, herself a successful publisher.
Treadwell, Michael. “London Trade Publishers 1675-1750”. The Library, Vol.
