Mapping the Locations of London's Dissenting Women Printers and Booksellers
Above: Overview Map of locations in London of 18 Dissenting and Evangelical Women Printers and Booksellers. The numbers correspond to the list below (to see the numbers, you may need to. expand the image above).
Below: Closeup images of each location.
1. R. Peacock (fl. 1792-1807) and Lucy Peacock (fl. 1785-1817), at 47 Parson's Street, Ratcliff Highway (1792-93), and 249 Oxford Street (1793-1807)
2. Elizabeth Dodd, 9 Cockspur Street, Hay-Market (1786)
3. Elizabeth Dodd and J. Dodd, the Bible, West-Street, Seven-Dials (fl. 1771-89).
4. Anne Dodd Jr., at the Peacock without Temple-Bar (fl. 1739-58).
5. Mary Withers, from the Seven Stars, Fleet Street, across from Chancery Lane, 1759-1763
6. Martha Gurney (1733-1816), at 128 Holborn Hill, 1772-1813.
7. Mrs. Howe[s], No. 15, Charles-Street, Wells-Street, near Middlesex Hospital, and Oxford Market, London, 1786-88
8. Martha Gurney (1733-1816), at 128 Holborn Hill, 1772-1813
9. Mary Lewis (1703-91) from the “Bible and Dove,” 1 Paternoster Row, London, 1755-1776 ;Martha Lewis Trapp Priestley (1745-1828), from 1 Paternoster Row, 1789-1797
10. Maria De Fleury (1752/3-92), first at No. 2, City Mews, White Cross Street, and later at No. 31, Jewin-Street, 1781-91.
11. Mary Fenner [Waugh], Turk's Head, Gracechurch Street, and in Lombard Street, 1735-1773
12. Rachel Potter, 52 Cannon Street, opposite Crooked Lane, London, 1775-88.
13. Sarah Pullen Gardner (c. 1710-78), near the Cross Keys Inn, Gracechurch Street, 1760-1775.
14-16. Tace Sowle [Raylton] at White-Hart Court, Gracious [Gracechurch] Street (1692-1716); at the Sign of the Bible in Leadenhall Street (c. 170o-12), and at the Sign of the Bible in George Yard, Lombard Street (1712-49)
17. Tace Sowle [Raylton] at the Crooked-Billet in Holywell-lane in Shoreditch (1691-92).
18. R. Peacock (fl. 1792-1807) and Lucy Peacock (fl. 1785-1817), at 47 Parson's Street, Ratcliff Highway (1792-93).
19. Elizabeth Cox (fl. 1807-43), and Daniel Cox (fl. 1815-43), 30 St. Thomas's Street and 59 High Street, Borough, Southwark.
20. Elizabeth Omer Delahoy (1784-1867), at the Albion Printing Office [Albion Press], Deptford Bridge and Greenwich, 1812-22.
Images above are from:
Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark, and Parts adjoining Shewing every House, which appeared between 1792 and 1799, created by Richard Horwood. For an entire visual of the Horwood Map with interactive features, see Matthew Sangster's amazing online site, Romantic London, at http://www.romanticlondon.org