Jane Jones (printer)

Jane Jones (died 1739) was an Irish printer, bookseller, and newspaper proprietor.[1]

Jane Jones
Died1739
Known forowner of Dublin Evening Post, printer and bookseller

Life
Masthead for the Dublin Evening Post in 1734

Jane Jones was the wife of Theophilus Jones, a bookseller, printer and newspaper proprietor and possible descendant of Sir Theophilus Jones. She is described as a lady of birth. Jones was widowed in April 1736, she announced that she would continue her husband's business to support her large family. She continued to print the Dublin Evening Post from Clarendon Street until 31 March 1739. She also published Life of Prince Eugene of Saxony (1737), Amusements de Spa by Karl Ludwig von Pöllnitz (1737), Complete English tradesmen by Daniel Defoe (1738), and a Letter to a lady, in praise of female learning by Wetenhall Wilkes (1739). Jones had started printing the History of the bishops of Ireland by Sir James Ware in 1739, but died before she could complete it in May 1739. Her daughter, Elizabeth, took over the business possibly helped by two of her sisters. They continued to operate from Clarendon Street for a further two years, printing the full set of Ware's works along with History of the civil wars of France by Enrico Caterino Davila (1740). Elizabeth married an engraver, Thomas Dixon, in 1756 and had long ceased working as a printer or bookseller.[1][2][3]

References
  1. Hourican, Bridget (2009). "Jane Jones In Jones, Theophilus". In McGuire, James; Quinn, James (eds.). Dictionary of Irish Biography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. Kinane, Vincent (1991). "Irish Booklore: A Galley of Pie: Women in the Irish Book Trades". The Linen Hall Review. 8 (4): 10–13. ISSN 0266-1500. JSTOR 20534214.
  3. "Masthead from The Dublin Evening Post, July 1734". Dublin City Council. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
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