Gender and the Book Trades

Elise Watson, Ph.D. (2022), University of St Andrews, is a postdoctoral researcher on the Universal Short Title Catalogue project. Her research focuses on print, gender, Catholicism, and religious coexistence in the early modern period. Jessica Farrell-Jobst, Ph.D. (2021), University of St Andrews, is an early career scholar and educator. Her research explores the multifaceted ways women have participated in the early modern book trades, the pedagogy of gender, and erasure and officiality in historical methods and sources.

Contents


List of Figures and Tables


Notes on Contributors





1 Gender as an Inclusive Model for Book History


 Elise Watson, Jessica Farrell-Jobst and Nora Epstein





Part 1: Familiar Networks


2 Women in the Family Business: the Case for Nuremberg’s Endter Printing Dynasty


 Jessica Farrell-Jobst





3 Knitting Ties in a Global Trade Network: the Maldonado Women and the Book Business in the Sixteenth-Century Iberian Atlantic


 Natalia Maillard Álvarez and Montserrat Cachero





4 Women in the Workshop: Property Structure, Print Culture, and Female Management in Colonial Peru


 Agnes Gehbald





Part 2: Publishing Gender


5 ‘Best Left to Men’: Women and Publishing Histories in Africa


 Elizabeth Le Roux





6 Beneath the Bright Covers: Women in Twentieth-Century Paperback Publishing


 Rebecca Baumann





7 A ‘Gentlemen’s Profession’: the Historical Masculinisation of British Publishing


 Sarah Lubelski





Part 3: Editorial Interventions


8 Mary Hays’ Female Biography (1803), the Anthology, and Reading as Gendered Labour in the Early Nineteenth Century Book Trades


 Charley Matthews





9 Constantia Grierson’s Ghost and the Problem of Posthumous Print


 Helen Williams





Part 4: The Bookshop and the Marketplace


10 The Bookshop Salon: Sylvia Beach, Adrienne Monnier, and Gendered Forms of Bookselling in Interwar Paris


 Matthew Chambers





11 Boundary Work in the Bazaar: the Women Booksellers of Daryaganj Sunday Book Market


 Kanupriya Dhingra





12 The Bookseller and the Lady: the Literary Ambitions of Anna de Sterke (1755–1831) and Her Dealings with Bookseller Luchtmans


 J.C. Rozendaal





Part 5: Shaping Collections: Gender and Value


13 ‘No entiende en el Balor de los libros’: the Value of Books for Women Owners in Seventeenth-Century Navarre


 Alexandra Wingate





14 The ‘Librara’, a Female Librarian in Seventeenth-Century Genoese Nunneries


 Valentina Sonzini





15 Between Piety and Scholarship: the Bible Collection of Elisabeth Sophie Marie of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel


 Joëlle Weis





Part 6: Crafting Identity: Religion and Gender


16 Seditious Pamphlets ‘Mid-wifed into the World’: Gender and the Confederate Stationers’ Clandestine Publishing Business in Restoration England


 Verônica Calsoni Lima





17 Printing Prophecy before 1550: Fame, Piety, and Gender in Northern Europe


 Rabia Gregory





18 Learning Your Papist ABCs: Gendered Instruction and Printed Books in Clandestine Catholic Schools in the Dutch Republic


 Elise Watson





Part 7: Gendered Perception and Reality


19 The Keys to the Forbidden Books: the Duchess of Almodóvar and Her Libraries


 Laura Guinot Ferri





20 Lace, Letters, and the Calligraphic Manuscripts of Esther Inglis


 Georgianna Ziegler





21 Rare Books and Rarer Personalities: Belle da Costa Greene, Wilfrid Michael Voynich, and Stylised Gender Performance in the Rare Book Trade, c.1890–1930


 Natalia Fantetti





22 Neither Radical nor Domestic: Women of the Bindery Local No. 125 of San Francisco 1902–1917


 Susan McElrath