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Expanding Elizabeth Mallet article:

CURRENT ARTICLE: Elizabeth Mallet (fl. 1672–1706) was a printer and bookseller who produced Britain's first daily newspaper, The Daily Courant, the first issue of which appeared on 11 March 1702.[1]

The paper was launched by Elizabeth as a single newssheet carrying digests of foreign papers.[2][3] Mallet wrote under a male persona, and claimed only to provide the facts, and to let the reader make up their own minds, saying: “Nor will [the Author] take it upon himself to give any Comments or Conjectures of his own, but will relate only Matter of Fact; supposing other People to have Sense enough to make Reflections for themselves.”[3]

Elizabeth married c. 1672. Upon the death of her husband in 1683, she apprenticed her son to the paper and ran two presses from premises near Fleet Street.[4] However, her son failed in this enterprise, and within ten years Elizabeth was again in charge, issuing serial publications and sensational tracts as well as The Daily Courant.[4]

References

Maxted, Ian (2004), "Mallet, Elizabeth (fl. 1672–1706)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, retrieved 25 March 2013 (subscription or UK public library membership required)
Pank, Philip (11 March 2002). "Fleet Street". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
"11 March 1702 – the world's first daily newspaper published - MoneyWeek". MoneyWeek. 11 March 2015. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
Suarez, Michael F.; Woudhuysen, H. R. (January 2010). The Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198606536. Retrieved 19 August 2019.

Will link to Fleet Street, also rephrase "sensational tracts" to add a sentence or 2 about her "last dying speech" work, with possible links. Also link to women in journalism? And a sentence about women in bookselling, printing and newspapers?

I would like to extend this page with information about Mallet's involvement in the trade of 'last dying speeches' and how her business may have been the foundation of Fleet St as a newspaper centre. I will take the info from: Ezell, M. (2014). Dying to be Read: Gallows Authorship in Late Seventeenth-Century England. Authorship, 3(1). Maxted, I. (2004, September 23). Mallet, Elizabeth (fl. 1672–1706), printer and bookseller. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Wilson, C. Edward. “The First First Daily Newspaper in English.” Journalism Quarterly 58, no. 2 (June 1, 1981): 286–88 Andhobbs (talk) 10:51, 14 November 2019 (UTC) Andhobbs (talk) 17:47, 21 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]