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):

-

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.

  Abbreviations

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)