This unique collection draws together twelve biographical essays that focus on American women's entrepreneurship in print culture from the colonial period through the early twentieth century. While much recent criticism has stressed the role of women as writers, this book locates careers elsewhere in the marketplace of words - careers in printing, publishing, editing, promotion, patronage, and bookselling. Among the women discussed here are Ann Franklin, the first woman printer in colonial New England; Ida B. Wells-Burnett, an African-American publisher, journalist, and crusader who combined...