Vautrollier, Jacqueline (d. 1611), printer

• Jacqueline Field

Jacqueline and Thomas Vautrollier arrived in London as Huguenot refugees from France. They set up as printers in London in the 1560s. Jacqueline played an active role in the Vautrollier printing business. When her husband Thomas was working in Edinburgh, she ran their printing house back in London. Despite the Vautrolliers not being free of the Stationers’ Company through special permissions and patents, even after Thomas’s death, they maintained a steady flow of publications. In 1588, the widowed Jacqueline is reported to have printed a Greek New Testament and Martin Luther’s Commentarie on Galatians. In 1589, Vautrollier married her husband’s former apprentice, Richard Field. She was therefore likely involved in the impressive line of works known to be produced by Field at this time, including the poems of William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney, and Edmund Spenser.

Thomas Vautrollier (first husband), bookseller and printer; Manassess Vautrollier (son), bookseller and bookbinder; Thomas Vautrollier (son), bookseller; Simon Vautrollier (son); James Vautrollier (son), watchmaker; Richard Field (second husband), printer

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