Elizabeth Pue (''fl.'' 1722 - 1726) was an Irish
newspaper publisher,
bookseller, and proprietor of
Dick's Coffee House
Dick's Coffee House was a significant Irish coffeehouse in the 17th and 18th century.
Dick's was one of Dublin's most famous and long lasting coffeehouses, established by Richard Pue in the late 17th century, at some point before July 1698. Pue ...
.
Biography
Following the death of her husband,
Richard Pue
Richard Pue (died 1722) was an Irish newspaper publisher, bookseller, and proprietor of Dick's Coffee House.
Life
The date and place of Richard Pue's birth is unknown. He established Dick's Coffee House, Skinner's Row, Dublin sometime before ...
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
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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.
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
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the printer" in June 1723, calling for his arrest for publishing pro-Jacobite propaganda.
Pue ceased working for the family business by 1726, with her son
Richard
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taking over. An Elizabeth Pue was buried at
Church of St. Nicholas Within, Dublin
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on 19 December 1749, but this might have been her granddaughter.
See also
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List of women printers and publishers before 1800
References
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18th-century publishers (people)
Irish publishers (people)
18th-century Irish businesswomen
Women printers