Margery Yeo — bookseller and publisher
![[Newspaper advertisement for bookseller Margery Yeo]](https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/files/original/5d238f29b09800579e2ae2a0d5cf76e4.jpg "[Newspaper advertisement for bookseller Margery Yeo]")
- Creator(s):
- Yeo, Margery
- Title:
- [Newspaper advertisement for bookseller Margery Yeo]
- Publication/Origin:
- [Exeter?]: [ca. 1720s?]
- Description:
- Margery Yeo is one of a number of women publishers and booksellers working in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. She was the widow of Charles Yeo, a bookseller in Exeter who died around 1709. A widow who inherited a publishing or bookselling business and who chose not to remarry could herself hold a favorable status in trade guilds. In London, for example, a widow would have the right to take on apprentices and hold stock in the Stationers’ Company. Margery was active as a bookseller and binder from 1709 to 1728. For the first few years after her husband’s death she traded with her son as Margery and Philip Yeo.
- Citation:
- Yeo, Margery, [Newspaper advertisement for bookseller Margery Yeo], [Exeter?]: [ca. 1720s?], Lisa Unger Baskin Collection, Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Accessed November 10, 2025, https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/baskin/item/4431