‘A Woman of Great Courage’: Women in the Printing Trades in Early Modern Europe

Mexico

Printing was introduced into Mexico in 1539, which is also the date of the first book printed in the Americas, printed by Juan Pablos. The first identifiable female printer in Mexico was Jerónima Gutiérrez y Núñez, the wife (and widow) of Pablos. However, and not surprisingly, the majority of women occupied the same realms in the print shops of Mexico as they had in Europe, as the wives and widows of printers.

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