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Women Proprietors of Copyright in England, 1675–1775

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Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av Leah Orr

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How did women in early modern England protect their investments in copyrights and realize profits from them? This new study explores the ways that women who owned copyright sought to turn manuscripts into money and protect their investments in intellectual property for themselves and their posterity. Through an analysis of previously unpublished archival sources and a new examination of print sources, this study shows that women copyright proprietors contributed to the establishment of copyright as a sellable commodity at a time when it was still undefined. Women Proprietors of Copyright charts a new history of copyright and women’s labor in the book trade at a crucial period of its development.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-08-14
Mått155 x 235 x 6 mm
Vikt187 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieMini-Monographs in Literary and Cultural Studies
Antal sidor92
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004737914

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Preface1 Legalities: Was Literary Property Really Property?1 Women in the Standard Story of the Emergence of Copyright2 Women and Patents in the Book Trade3 Women Producers and Rights to Their Creation2 Women Authors as Owners3 Women Legatees as Owners4 Women Proprietors in the Stationers’ Company1 Restoration Women in the Stationers’ Registers2 Eighteenth-Century Women and the Stationers: Mary Cooper3 Women outside the Trade in the Register5 Women at Book Trade Sales1 Copyrights Belonging to Elizabeth Pawlett (1720)2 Copyrights Belonging to Mary Matthews (1720)3 Copyrights Belonging to Christian Bowyer (1736)4 Mary Cooper as a Purchaser at Trade Sales5 Private Sales among the Trade6 Women in Court1 Using Patents as a Proxy for Copyright: Elizabeth Nutt2 Establishing a Legacy: Mary WellingtonConclusionBibliographyIndex