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05, Kerver's Widow And Female Printers In Sixteenth-Century France, Darrah Culp
05, Kerver's Widow And Female Printers In Sixteenth-Century France, Darrah Culp
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After the Parisian printer Thielman Kerver died in 1522, his widow Iolande Bonhomme took over his shop at the "Sign of the Unicorn" in the Rue St. Jacques, and in 1526 she produced the first Bible printed by a woman. This essay discusses Bonhomme's assumption of the business and the roles and skills open to the widows of certain tradesmen in medieval France.