Isaac Thompson

Standard Name: Thompson, Isaac

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Family and Intimate relationships Ann Fisher
The Slack family were important figures in the Newcastle book trade. Thomas managed the Newcastle Journal for its publisher and part-owner, Isaac Thompson .
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.
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Horsley, P. M. “Some Local Ladies of the Eighteenth Century”. Heaton Works Journal, Vol.
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, No. 33, C A Parsons and Company, pp. 131-8.
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Ann bore nine daughters, of whom eight lived to...
Family and Intimate relationships Ann Fisher
In 1762 Thomas Slack quarrelled with his employer, Isaac Thompson . Each abused the other in print, and Slack launched his own newspaper.
Horsley, P. M. “Some Local Ladies of the Eighteenth Century”. Heaton Works Journal, Vol.
6
, No. 33, C A Parsons and Company, pp. 131-8.
136
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/.
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