Elizabeth Pue

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Elizabeth Pue
NationalityIrish
Known forproprietor of Dick's Coffee House and publisher of Pue's Occurences

Elizabeth Pue (fl. 1722 - 1726) was an Irish newspaper publisher, bookseller, and proprietor of Dick's Coffee House. [1] [2]

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Following the death of her husband, Richard Pue in 1722, Elizabeth Pue took over the publishing business and running of their coffee house, Skinner's Row, Dublin. She continued to publish her husband's newspaper, Pue's Occurrences, with Cornelius Carter along with one other work. Their relationship was damaged when Carter sold a successful "fam'd royal eye water" until Pue started selling a similar product, with Pue publicly questioning the reliability and strength of Pue's product. [1] Under her, Pue's Occurrences became politically aligned with the sitting government, with Pue receiving payment in secret from Dublin Castle "for advertising in her news paper 4 sev'l times against Harding the printer" in June 1723, calling for his arrest for publishing pro-Jacobite propaganda. [3] [4] [2] [5]

Pue ceased working for the family business by 1726, with her son Richard taking over. An Elizabeth Pue was buried at Church of St. Nicholas Within, Dublin on 19 December 1749, but this might have been her granddaughter. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 O'Riordan, Turlough (2009). "Elizabeth Pue in Pue, Richard". In McGuire, James; Quinn, James (eds.). Dictionary of Irish Biography . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. 1 2 Pollard, Mary (2000). A dictionary of members of the Dublin book trade, 1550-1800 : based on the records of the Guild of St. Luke the Evangelist, Dublin. London: Bibliographical Society. p. 472. ISBN   9780948170119.
  3. ↑ O'Dowd, Mary (2016). A history of women in Ireland, 1500-1800. Routledge. ISBN   9781317877240.
  4. ↑ O'Dowd, Mary (2002). "Political Writings and Public Voices, c. 1500-1800". In Bourke, Angela (ed.). The Field Day anthology of Irish writing. New York: NYU Press. p. 10. ISBN   9780814799079.
  5. ↑ Woolley, James (2005). "'Poor John Harding and Mad Tom: 'Harding's resurrection' (1724)". That woman! : studies in Irish bibliography : a festschrift for Mary "Paul" Pollard. Dublin: Lilliput Press for the Library Association of Ireland, Rare Books Group. p. 105. ISBN   9781843510604.
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