
A Page is Worth A Thousand Worlds: A Conversation with Michelle Chesner
18Forty Podcast
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The First Woman to Print a Book
The first woman to print a book was astelina conat in mantua, at her husband's press. Censors would essentially cross out whatever words they thought were offensive christianity. In many cases, the censors didn't know very much. They would cross out every instance of guy that they saw, even if it was something like guy gao ye, because they assumed that that meant christian and i was going to be negative.
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