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    Women in the Book Trade: Three Women Publishers of the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries
    Women in the Book Trade: Three Women Publishers of the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries
    Women in the Book Trade: Three Women Publishers of the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries
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    Women in the Book Trade: Three Women Publishers of the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries

    By Annie Southern

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    This book profiles three women publishers at three women's presses: Emily Faithfull at the Victoria Press in the nineteenth century, and Lilian Mohin at Onlywomen Press and Sue Butterworth at Silver Moon Books in the twentieth century. The contribution of these women to their respective women's movements, their experience in the book trade and their stories as publishers of books for women are to be admired. Annie Southern has produced this slim volume in order to keep knowledge of their contributions alive in the twenty-first century by putting information into the public domain that is not already there or not readily accessible. An easy-read, this book brings to life the eras in which these women were working and gives a sense of the barriers they faced in order to bring both feminist works and women's fiction to female readers. For the reader interested in printing by women as well as publishing by women this book provides an account of those experiences also.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnnie Southern
    Release dateNov 26, 2014
    ISBN9780994109286
    Women in the Book Trade: Three Women Publishers of the Nineteenth & Twentieth Centuries
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    Annie Southern

    Dr Annie Southern was educated at Oxford University and has a PhD in health science from the University of Canterbury. Her doctorate looked at women's career experiences as they are affected by mental illness. She has worked in publishing as a magazine and book editor. She has also lived through the Canterbury earthquakes in New Zealand and has an interest in earthquake trauma. Her publications are available both as ebooks and print editions.

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      Women in the Book Trade - Annie Southern

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      WOMEN

      IN THE

      BOOK TRADE

      Three Women Publishers of the

      Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

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      Cover and book design:

      Social Media Revolution Design

      © Annie Southern, 2014

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise without the permission of the author.

      Pictures sourced from Depositphotos.com

      © Photographs and illustrations:

      Kiselev Andrey and Artur Marfin (cover)

      Ron Harvey, N. Aleksandra, Fernando Gutiérrez, Franck Camhi, Giuseppe Fucile, Andrey Kuzmin, Sergey Ivashutin, Micha Klootwijk, James Steidl and Patrick Guénette.

      ISBN: 9780994109286

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Introduction

      NINETEENTH CENTURY:

      Victoria Press & Emily Faithfull

      Twentieth century:

      Onlywomen Press & Lilian Mohin

      Silver Moon Books & Sue Butterworth

      APPENDICES

      A: Langham Place Circle & Barbara Bodichon

      B: Feminist Publications of The Nineteenth Century

      C: Twentienth Century Women’s Presses

      D: The Six International Feminist Book Fairs

      FURTHER READING

      About the author

      Polly slumped in her chair and stared at the slimy green covers of the Virago classics with their climbing roses and alabaster heroines, wondering would she ever have another thought, let alone commit it to paper. Had she held out and written only what interested her, those alabaster classics might even now be scrawled with pencil marks, that unblotted copy book might brim with observation.

      ANNA LIVIA

      Accommodation Offered (1985: 116)

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      INTRODUCTION

      In producing this small book on three British women publishers, my aim has been to put information into the public domain that is not already there. I conducted two interviews in the mid-1990s with two women publishers of the time, Lilian Mohin of Onlywomen Press & Sue Butterworth of Silver Moon Books. I also applied for permission to visit the British Library at that time and read up on Emily Faithfull’s Victoria Press there. There are several accounts of Emily Faithfull’s press and her life but I hope that this brief account helps to keep her memory alive as a nineteenth century woman publisher of the first wave of the women’s movement. People have also written about the women’s movement and its presses in the twentieth century but largely these accounts have been about the Women’s Press and Virago. The two smaller publishers profiled in this book are very different but both made their own contributions. One did so through decades of work at the feminist coal-face and in the printing sector, and the other did so by running a famous women’s bookshop in Charing Cross Road for many years and eventually a women’s press of the same name.

      Both the Victoria Press in the nineteenth century and Onlywomen Press in the twentieth century developed from printing endeavours by women. So it is worth looking at women in the printing trade to provide a context for their development. Women have been involved in some measure in printing since soon after Caxton invented the printing press. Ramsay MacDonald notes in Women in the Printing Trades that: Nuns were engaged as compositors at the Ripoli Monastery Press in Florence towards the end of the fifteenth century, within half a century of the introduction of printing and Jenny Hirsch carried on a printer’s business in Boston about 1690, and during the next two centuries women printers were common in the thirteen states (1904: 24). He also notes

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