“Mary Cooper (publisher)”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Cooper's business was on Paternoster Row.^[1] She was the widow of printer and publisher Thomas Cooper,^[3] whose business she continued. Thomas Cooper had published a reading guide in 1742, The Child's New Play-thing, and his wife published an edition of it after his death.^[6] Active from 1743 to 1761,^[3] she is notable especially for publishing Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book (1744), "the first known collection of English nursery rhymes in print".^[4] Cooper collected the rhymes, each of which had a companion woodcut, and later critics have remarked that "Cooper's ear for a good jingle was unerring".^[5]

With her husband, she was a trade publisher, meaning she did not own the copyright to works they published, meaning also that the actual copyright owner could remain anonymous, a benefit when the book was controversial—one of the Coopers' books was the (anonymously printed) erotic novel A Secret History of Pandora's Box (1742).^[6] As such, Cooper had business arrangements with Andrew Millar, Henry Fielding's publisher, and printed a number of Fielding's pamphlets.^[7] She was an exception to the general rule that 18th-century women in the publishing business were of only minor importance; besides functioning as a trade publisher she owned the copyright to a number of titles.^[8] She is also credited with publishing a newspaper, the Manchester Vindicated, remarked on in 1749.^[1]

References

1. ^¹²{{cite book|last=Timperley|first=Charles Henry|title=A dictionary of printers and printing: with the progress of literature; ancient and modern| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=lnsPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA709 | accessdate =26 April 2013|year=1839|publisher=H. Johnson|pages=679, 709}}
2. ^{{cite book|last1=Feather|first1=John|last2=Sturges|first2= Paul | title =International Encyclopedia of Information and Library Science|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aUtLZceyrqkC&pg=PA72 | accessdate =26 April 2013|year=2003|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9780203403303|page= 72}}
3. ^¹²{{cite web|url= http://www3.nd.edu/~adminoff/ulon/acces952/lfuderer.htm|title= 18th-Century British Women in Print|last= Fuderer|first= Laura|accessdate= 26 April 2013|deadurl= yes|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20020108081151/http://www.nd.edu/~adminoff/ulon/acces952/lfuderer.htm|archivedate= 8 January 2002|df= }}
4. ^¹{{cite book|last1= Wolf|first1= Shelby|last2 = Coats | first2 = Karen |last3= Enciso|first3= Patricia A. | first4 =Christine | last4 = Jenkins| title= Handbook of Research on Children's and Young Adult Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lQ7rTWMZw_cC&pg=PA188|accessdate=26 April 2013|year= 2010 | publisher = Routledge |isbn= 9780203843543|page=188}}
5. ^{{cite book|last = Goldthwaite | first= John | title = The Natural History of Make-Believe: A Guide to the Principal Works of Britain, Europe, and America | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=DQBlOq_P4n0C&pg=PA21|accessdate=26 April 2013|year=1996|publisher=Oxford UP|isbn = 9780198020851 |page = 21}}
6. ^{{cite book|last=Harvey|first=Karen | title = Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century: Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=ZmZ6JyOXW0gC&pg=PA43 |accessdate=26 April 2013|year=2004|publisher=Cambridge UP|isbn=9780521822350|pages=42–43}}
7. ^{{cite book|last=Coley|first=W. B. |editor=W. B. Coley|title=Henry Fielding: Contributions to The Champion and Related Writings| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=fQM_2bVKjbsC&pg=PR116|accessdate= 26 April 2013 | year= 2003 | publisher = Oxford UP|isbn=9780198185109|pages= xxiii–cxix|chapter= General Introduction}}
8. ^{{cite book|last=McDowell|first= Paula|title = The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678–1730|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=b-YQfRd0caQC&pg=PA115 | accessdate =26 April 2013|year=1998|publisher= Oxford UP|isbn= 9780198184492|pages= 55, 115}}