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Women Proprietors of Copyright in England, 1675â1775
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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 Through an analysis of previously unpublished archival sources and a new examination of print sources, this study shows that women copyright proprietors contributed to the establishment of copyright as a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 womenâs labor in the book trade at a crucial period of its development.
Leah Orr is Professor of English at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. She works on fiction, women writers, and the book trade in the long eighteenth century and is the author of two books, most recently Publishing the Woman Writer in England, 1670â1750 (2023).
Preface
1 Legalities: Was Literary Property Really Property?
â1 Women in the Standard Story of the Emergence of Copyright
â2 Women and Patents in the Book Trade
â3 Women Producers and Rights to Their Creation
2 Women Authors as Owners
3 Women Legatees as Owners
4 Women Proprietors in the Stationersâ Company
â1 Restoration Women in the Stationersâ Registers
â2 Eighteenth-Century Women and the Stationers: Mary Cooper
â3 Women outside the Trade in the Register
5 Women at Book Trade Sales
â1 Copyrights Belonging to Elizabeth Pawlett (1720)
â2 Copyrights Belonging to Mary Matthews (1720)
â3 Copyrights Belonging to Christian Bowyer (1736)
â4 Mary Cooper as a Purchaser at Trade Sales
â5 Private Sales among the Trade
6 Women in Court
â1 Using Patents as a Proxy for Copyright: Elizabeth Nutt
â2 Establishing a Legacy: Mary Wellington
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
1 Legalities: Was Literary Property Really Property?
â1 Women in the Standard Story of the Emergence of Copyright
â2 Women and Patents in the Book Trade
â3 Women Producers and Rights to Their Creation
2 Women Authors as Owners
3 Women Legatees as Owners
4 Women Proprietors in the Stationersâ Company
â1 Restoration Women in the Stationersâ Registers
â2 Eighteenth-Century Women and the Stationers: Mary Cooper
â3 Women outside the Trade in the Register
5 Women at Book Trade Sales
â1 Copyrights Belonging to Elizabeth Pawlett (1720)
â2 Copyrights Belonging to Mary Matthews (1720)
â3 Copyrights Belonging to Christian Bowyer (1736)
â4 Mary Cooper as a Purchaser at Trade Sales
â5 Private Sales among the Trade
6 Women in Court
â1 Using Patents as a Proxy for Copyright: Elizabeth Nutt
â2 Establishing a Legacy: Mary Wellington
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
This book will appeal to academic libraries and readers, including graduate students, in the fields of book history, literature, and womenâs studies in the long eighteenth century.