Jane Aitken

Jane Aitken (1764–1832) was an American printer and publisher known for printing Charles Thomson's translation of the Septuagint into English,[1][2] as well as Rebecca Rush's novel Kelroy.[3][4] She was the first printer to issue a Philadelphia census directory containing a section devoted to "persons of colour".[5]

Some of her papers are held in the collections of one of her clients, the American Philosophical Society.[6]

See also

• Thomson's Translation

References

1. Benowitz, June Melby (2017) [1998]. "Aitken, Jane (1764–1832)". Encyclopedia of American Women and Religion (2nd ed.). ABC-CLIO. pp. 13–14. ISBN 978-1-440-83987-0.
2. Spawn, Willman (1981-01-01). "A Jane Aitken Binding". Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society. 91 (1). Worcester, Mass.: 109.
3. Klimasmith, Betsy (2021). Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City. Oxford University Press. p. 231. ISBN 978-0-192-84621-1.
4. James, Edward T.; James, Janet Wilson; Boyer, Paul S., eds. (1971). Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 2. Harvard University Press. pp. 26–27. ISBN 978-0-674-62734-5.
5. Nash, Gary B. (2006) [2001]. First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory (1st. paperback ed.). University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 61, 126. ISBN 978-0-812-21942-5.
6. "Jane Aitken Papers". American Philosophical Society. Retrieved 2023-03-04.

Further reading

• Spawn, Willman; Spawn, Carol (1963). "The Aitken Shop: Identification of an Eighteenth-century Bindery and Its Tools". The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. 57 (4): 422–437. doi:10.1086/pbsa.57.4.24301089. JSTOR 24301089. S2CID 183004755.
• Michaels, J. Ramsey (July 2011). "Charles Thomson and the First American New Testament". The Harvard Theological Review. 104 (3): 349–365. doi:10.1017/S0017816011000253. JSTOR 41234090. S2CID 162396161.

External links

• Jane Aitken documentation at the American Philosophical Society