Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Isaac Thompson
Standard Name: Thompson, Isaac
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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, pp. 81-100. 93 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 |
| 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 |
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