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

Sibylle de la Porte (active 1585-1595?)

Sibylle de la Porte (1540-1608) was both the daughter and wife of printers based in Lyon. After the deaths of her husband and father, she took over the operation of her father's business, where it became one of two highly successful women-operated printing businesses in that city. She published under her own name and presented herself as "Sib. A Porta" on title pages and colophons. 

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