Allen, Hannah
| County: |
London |
Town: |
London |
Address(es): |
The Crown, Pope's Head Alley off Lombard st. |
Book Trade(s): |
Bookseller, Printer, Publisher |
Non-Book Trade(s): |
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Trading Dates: |
1646 – 1664 |
Biographical Dates: |
1632 (date married) – 1664 |
Notes: |
Puritan/Baptist. Possibly daughter of bookseller Robert Howes. Widow B Allen 1646d (m. 2.4.1632). Assoc Gertrude Dawson 1649. Remarried formerly apprenticed to Livewell Chapman 1652. |
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Sources: |
Bell, Maureen, 'A Dictionary of Women in the London Book Trade, 1540-1730', MLS dissertation, Loughborough University of Technology (1983) Bell, Maureen, 'Hannah Allen and the Development of a Puritan Publishing Business, 1646-51', in Publishing History 26 (1989), pp. 5-66 Plomer, Henry R., A Dictionary of the Booksellers and Printers who were at work in England, Scotland and Ireland from 1641 to 1667 (London, 1907) |