Sarah Harding
Dublin printer and publisher
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Alice Perry
Irish engineer and Christian Scientist
Catherine Finn
Irish newspaper publisher in the 1700s
Elizabeth Yeats
Irish publisher and painter
Georgie Yeats
Irish scholar, occultist, publisher, and wife of William Butler Yeats
Ruth Graisberry
Irish printer who succeeded her husband as college printer in 1822 after successfully petitioning the Trinity College Dublin to retain her, with the backing of the leading figures in the capital’s printing trade.
Sylvia Beach
In addition to owning and running the “bookshop and lending library, Shakespeare and Company,” Beach spent her time advocating and networking for the writers and friends that were loyal to her shop.
Jane Heap
American editor, publisher, art gallery owner, and teacher
Nancy Cunard
English heiress to the Cunard Steamship Company, Cunard began writing poetry and published her first collection, Outlaws, in April 1921. When her third, most experimental book, Parallax (1925), was criticized as derivative of Eliot, she decided to try her at publishing instead, and in 1928 she founded the avant-garde Hours Press, which most famously published Samuel Beckett’s poem “Whoroscope” (1930).
Jane Grey Swisshelm
American journalist, anti-slavery agitator and war nurse