Alice Broad
Alice Broad was York's first female printer. She was also known as Alice Broade. Early life 
Alice Broad was the assumed widow of Thomas Broad (seventeenth century York printer) and took over the family printing business on his death in 1661. The press was located opposite the Ye Olde Starre Inne on Stonegate, York. Broad was York’s first female printer, and indeed the only printer in York from 1661–1664. She remained the only female printer in the city for the duration of her career. Printed publications 
Works produced by Broad included religious publications, instructional books, visitation articles, local interest and a range of other subjects. The last extant printing is generally considered to be Scarbrough-Spaw, or a Description of the Nature and Vertues of the Spaw at Scarbrough, Yorkshire, published 1667. There is no definitive evidence of any further publications until the publication of Northumberland visitation articles followed by a book of poetry with John White in 1680. John White married Hannah, the assumed daughter of John and Alice in 1680. York Minster Library houses eleven of the seventeen extant publications. Later life 
Broad's tools and presses went with Hannah Broad into her marriage with John White. References 

17th-century printers
English printers
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing