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Hannah Allen (bookseller)
Hannah Allen (), born Hannah Howse and later Hannah Chapman, was an English Bookselling, bookseller and Printer (publishing), printer whose trade focussed on religious treatises and British America, colonial affairs in America. Our knowledge of Allen's activities comes mainly from documents dated between 1646 and 1651. Hannah married Benjamin Allen on 2 April 1632. He died in 1646, and Hannah took over Benjamin's bookselling business after his death; she would later marry her Apprenticeship, apprentice Livewell Chapman. In total, there are 54 literary works bearing Hannah's Title page, imprint, but Bell estimates that the true number of her publications was somewhat higher. Bross describes Allen as a "radical sectarian"; Bell notes that the works on her wikt:booklist, booklist also tended towards millenarianism and the views of the Fifth Monarchists. She sold a number of works by religious writers, including editions of the works of Thomas Brightman, Menasseh Ben Israel, Menass ...
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