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This list of women printers and publishers before 1800 includes women active as printers or publishers prior to the 19th century. Before the printing press was invented, books were made from pages written by scribes, and it could take up to a year or two for a book to be completed.
Beatrice Campbell, "Writer's Room With a View," The Guardian, 21 February 1989, image 35 (assembly of women writers from the USSR, the United States, and France" The Persephone Book of Short Stories," Persephone Books Ltd. 2012, ISBN 978-1903-155-905 is a collection of short stories written by women 1909-1986.
Before the introduction of books, writing on bone, shells, wood and silk was prevalent in China long before the 2nd century BCE, until paper was invented in China around the 1st century CE. China's first recognizable books called jiance or jiandu, were made of rolls of thin split and dried bamboo bound together with hemp, silk, or leather. [14]
See Table of years in literature for an overview of all "year in literature" pages. Several attempts have been made to create a list of world literature. Among these are the great books project including the book series Great Books of the Western World, now containing 60 volumes.
With many copies of traditional books and new books appearing, debates arose over the value of each in what became known as the "battle of the books". [136] Maps and discoveries of exploration and colonization also were recorded in books and governmental records, [ 137 ] often with the purpose of economic exploitation as in the General Archive ...
Middle-class and women were confined to an idle domestic existence, supervising servants; lower-class women were forced to take poorly paid jobs. Capitalism had a negative effect on many women. [98] In a more positive interpretation, Ivy Pinchbeck argues that capitalism created the conditions for women's emancipation. [99]
19 December 2019, Rowling tweets support for woman whose opinions on sex were ruled ‘absolutist’ In a tweet, Rowling defended a woman who lost her employment tribunal after her opinions on sex ...
Wood block printing became popular in the 17th century, and over a thousand books were sold annually by 1670. By the 17th century, increasing social divisions separated drama, with samurai watching noh and chōnin watching kabuki .