Details for: BURGES, Elizabeth
| Name: |
BURGES, Elizabeth |
| County: |
Norfolk |
| Town: |
Norwich |
| Address(es): |
Nr the Red Well, St Andrew's parish |
| Book Trades: |
Printer, Printer (newspaper) |
| Non-Book Trade: |
Not known |
| Trading Dates: |
1706 (date from imprint) - 1708 (date of death) |
| Biographical Dates: |
1706 (before) - 1708 (date of death) |
| Notes: |
Widow of Francis Burges; possibly daughter of Freeman Collins, to whom her business passed. Some doubt as to whether she died in 1707 or 1708. |
| Sources: |
- Stoker, David, 'The Norwich book trades before 1800', Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 8 (1981), pp.79-125 plus further records contributed by David Stoker
- Stoker, David, 'Printing at the Red-Well: An Early Norwich press through the eyes of Contemporaries', in The Mighty Engine: The Printing Press and its Impact, eds. Isaac, Peter & McKay, Barry (Winchester, 2000), pp97-106
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