Thomas James

Standard Name: James, Thomas,, the younger

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Elinor James
Elinor Banks , aged about seventeen, married Thomas James , journeyman printer, at St Olave's Church, Silver Street, London.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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Family and Intimate relationships Elinor James
Thomas James died, and his wife Elinor became nominally, as she had long been in fact, director of his printing business.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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James, Tom Beaumont. “The James Family Bible and Lost Portraits of Bodley’s First Librarian and of his Grandson”. Bodleian Library Friends Newsletter, 1 Sept.–28 Feb. 2006, p. [6].
Occupation Elinor James
EJ 's husband, Thomas , master printer, set up his shop in Mincing Lane, London.
Treadwell, Michael. “London Printers and Printing Houses in 1705”. Publishing History, Vol.
7
, 1980, pp. 5-44.
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Textual Production Elinor James
EJ 's The Case Between a Father and his Children, one of the earliest of her known broadsides, appeared with her husband 's name in the imprint: the relation discussed is monarchical, not familial.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
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Textual Production Elinor James
The papers of EJ 's husband Thomas were at Sion College Library until it closed permanently in July 1996 for lack of funding. After this funding impasse it has been merged with Lambeth Palace Library .
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon, 1998.
prelims
James, Elinor. “Introductory Note”. Elinor James, edited by Paula McDowell, Ashgate, 2005, p. v - xxviii.
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Wealth and Poverty Elinor James
EJ donated her late husband 's fine book collection to Sion College in Twickenham near London, a crucial moment in the building of its library.
Treadwell, Michael. “London Printers and Printing Houses in 1705”. Publishing History, Vol.
7
, 1980, pp. 5-44.
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