Mary Cooper (mai bugawa)

Mary Cooper (ta mutu a ranar 5 ga Agusta 1761)  mawallafiyar Ingila ce kuma mai sayar da littattafai da ke Landan wadda ta yi fice tsakanin 1743 da 1761.  Tare da Thomas Boreman (fl. 1730–1743), ita ce farkon mawallafin littattafan yara a Turanci, kafin John Newbery . 

Aikin Cooper yana kan Paternoster Row .  Ita ce matar firinta kuma mawallafi Thomas Cooper,  wanda ta ci gaba da harkokinsa. Thomas Cooper ya buga jagorar karatu a shekarar 1742, The Child's New Play-thing, kuma matarsa ta buga bugu bayan mutuwarsa.  Yana aiki daga 1743 zuwa 1761,  ta shahara musamman saboda buga Littafin Waƙoƙin Tommy Thumb na Pretty (1744), "tarin waƙoƙin yara na farko da aka sani na Ingilishi a bugawa".  Cooper ya tattara waƙoƙin, kowannensu yana da ɗan gajeren katako, kuma daga baya masu suka sun lura cewa "Kunnen Cooper don kyakkyawan jingle bai yi kuskure ba". 

Tare da mijinta, ta kasance mai buga littattafai na kasuwanci, ma'ana ba ta da haƙƙin mallaka na ayyukan da suka buga, ma'ana kuma cewa ainihin mai haƙƙin mallaka zai iya zama ba a san shi ba, wani fa'ida lokacin da littafin ya kasance mai jayayya - ɗaya daga cikin littattafan Coopers shine littafin batsa (wanda ba a bayyana sunansa ba) mai suna A Secret History of Pandora's Box (1742).  Saboda haka, Cooper yana da yarjejeniyar kasuwanci tare da Andrew Millar, mai buga littattafai na Henry Fielding, kuma ya buga wasu ƙasidu na Fielding.  Ta kasance banda ga ra'ayin cewa mata na ƙarni na 18 a cikin kasuwancin bugawa ba su da mahimmanci kawai; baya ga aiki a matsayin mai buga littattafai na kasuwanci, ta mallaki haƙƙin mallaka na "aƙalla 18"  .  An kuma yaba mata da buga jarida, Manchester Vindicated, wanda aka ambata a 1749. 

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