Tace Sowle, later Tace Sowle Raylton (1666–1749) was a London-based printer and a major publisher of early Quaker writings.[1]

Biography

Sowle's parents, Andrew and Jane Sowle, both worked as printers,[2] and she took over her father's business in 1691 aged 25.[3] She managed the press for fifty-eight years, and at her death was the oldest printer in London.[4] Following her marriage to Thomas Raylton in 1706, she remained the head of the business and, unusually for the times, continued to use her original surname, being known as Tace Sowle Raylton.[5] Sowle published a bibliography of her press's work, which is also one of the first bibliographies of Quaker writings.[6][7]

A fund named after Sowle (using a variant spelling of her name), set up by Quakers United in Publishing, supports Quaker authors.[8]

References

  1. ↑ McDowell, Paula (2008). "Sowle, Tace". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/67077. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 18 February 2022. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ↑ Matthew, H. C. G.; Harrison, B., eds. (23 September 2004). "The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. ref:odnb/39671. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39671. Retrieved 26 November 2022. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ↑ "Tace Sowle 1666-1749".
  4. ↑ Carn, Trish (4 February 2011). "An Early Quaker Woman Printer" (PDF). The Friend. pp. 12–13. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
  5. ↑ McDowell, Paula (1998). The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678–1730. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  6. ↑ Sowle, Tace (1703). Books Printed and Sold by T. Sowle. Sowle Press.
  7. ↑ Ferlier, Louisiane (2015). "Tace Sowle-Raylton (1666–1749) and the Circulation of Books in the London Quaker Community". Library and Information History. 31 (3): 157–170. doi:10.1179/1758348915Z.00000000082. S2CID 142539827.
  8. ↑ "Tacey Sowle Fund".


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