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    In 1811 Lydia Phillips took over her late husband’s bookstore and circulating library in Philadelphia. She placed an advertisement in Poulson’s Daily Advertiser asking her friends and the public for their patronage as she continued the business to support herself and six small children. Ten years later she was still in business. Scottish Rite Masonic Library in Philadelphia holds a copy of Jeremy Belknap's The History of New-Hampshire with an identical label with Phillips’ name in manuscript. M. Carey is likely Mathew Carey, Philadelphia printer and publisher.   
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    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.
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    Women have actively participated in the bookselling and printing trades since the invention of movable type around 1450. Though women were not permitted to take up printing apprenticeships, both printing and bookselling tended to be family businesses that included women. Well-hidden and tipped into this copy of a seventeenth- century travel book is a rather substantial list of books available at "reasonable rates" from bookseller Elizabeth Hutchinson, possibly the wife of bookbinder Hugh Hutchinson, who kept shop from 1665 to 1684.
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