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2. Printed by Alice Broade: The Career of York’s First Female Printer, 1661–1680

Authors : Sarah Griffin, Kaley Kramer

Published in: Print Culture, Agency, and Regionality in the Hand Press Period

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The chapter delves into the life and career of Alice Broad, York’s first female printer, from 1661 to 1680. It examines her unique position in the print trade, the political and cultural context of York during the Civil War and Restoration periods, and her relationships with local authors and booksellers. The study also highlights the challenges she faced as a woman in a male-dominated industry and her significant contributions to the regional printing history. Broad’s career is analyzed through the lens of gender and regionality, offering insights into the broader experiences of women in the print trades during the seventeenth century.

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This surname is spelt ‘Broade’ and ‘Broad’ in records; for consistency, this chapter uses the spelling ‘Broad’ throughout, except when quoting from historical records directly.

Plomer gives an account of Bulkley in his survey of printers (1907, 38–39) and notes that there are at least two variations on his name: ‘Bulkeley’ and ‘Buckley’. Sessions has provided more detailed information in Bulkley and Broad; White and Wayt (1986).

Printing had been restricted to London, Cambridge, and Oxford in 1586; see the introduction to this collection. While printing was officially permitted in York in 1662, printers were active in the city from 1642. See Bell and Barnard (1994) on early seventeenth-century York book trades.

For women’s complicated relationship to property and inheritance in this period, see Staves (1990); for the specific roles that women played in the transmission of tools, copyrights, materials, and networks in the print trades, see Bell (1996), Maruca (2007), McDowell (2000).

Charles I moved his court to York from March to August 1642; the royal press was housed at St William’s College, east of the Minster. Robert Barker was the printer who travelled with Charles to York; Bulkley, a ‘royalist printer [in London] felt it expedient to join the royal court in York’ (Sessions and Sessions 1976, 9). The Royal Press was ordered to Nottingham after the King’s departure in mid-August; Bulkley arrived in York in June and printed from there until 1644. See Sessions and Sessions (1976, 6–20), Plomer (1907).

Broad, White, and Ward, among others, are part of Robert Davies’ A Memoir of the York Press (1988) and appear in the work of William K. and E. Margaret Sessions.

Cf. Helen Williams (Chap. 5) on Anne Fisher in Newcastle.

Neither Alice Broad nor Ann Ward remarried (Grace White died a scant five years after her husband), though both worked closely with male colleagues within and beyond their businesses until their deaths.

Michelle Levy (2020) locates this shift in 1998 with Leslie Howsam’s ‘two-page SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) News entry’, which asked ‘a different set of questions about women’s place in the history of the book’.

Crawford (2014) argues for a much broader purview of women’s engagement with literary production in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one that looks beyond consanguineal and affinal communities and towards individually determined and more temporary affiliations in wider social and cultural circles. See the introduction (1–29).

If there were other children, no records or mention of them have survived.

George Peacock, Ann Ward’s son-in-law, appeared on the masthead of The York Courant on 1 April 1788 (Sessions and Sessions 1976, 1), a year before Ward’s death; Tace Sowle (1666–1749), well-known London Quaker printer, also shared her imprints with her successor, her nephew Luke Hinde, before her death (Jeffery 2020, 4).

Lambert’s career was longer than appears. Both the BBTI and Plomer give Lambert’s dates of activities as 1660–1690; however, a search of union catalogues reveals he was working with London printers from the mid-1650s. The earliest title extant is an edition of the York-Shire Spaw, ‘printed for Richard Lambert bookseller, at Minster-Gate in York, 1654’.

The only person Thomas Broad appears to work with is Nathaniel Brooke at the Angel at Cornhill, London. Cf. Sessions 1998.

This item is held at the Carlisle Cathedral Library, 8A6.18.

We are indebted to Canon David Weston, honorary assistant librarian at Carlisle Cathedral for this information.

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Title: Printed by Alice Broade: The Career of York’s First Female Printer, 1661–1680
Authors: Sarah Griffin
Kaley Kramer
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Print Culture, Agency, and Regionality in the Hand Press Period
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-88054-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-88055-2

Copyright Year: 2022
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88055-2_2