AN ENTERPRISING WOMAN

Mary Katherine Goddard accomplished several firsts – in Providence Rhode Island in 1766 she, along with her mother, became the first woman publisher; in 1775 in Baltimore, she became the first woman postmaster; and in 1777, one year after the Declaration of Independence was signed, she became the first printer to make available copies of the famous document with the signers names. In 1789 she opened a book store, also in Baltimore. She was a very enterprising woman, at a time when woman did not take on those roles in society. She made it a little easier for women after her to do the same.

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