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👉 Paternoster Row in the context of Mary Cooper (publisher)

Mary Cooper (died 5 August 1761) was an English publisher and bookseller based in London who flourished between 1743 and 1761. With Thomas Boreman (fl. 1730–1743), she is the earliest publisher of children's books in English, predating John Newbery.

Cooper's business was on Paternoster Row. She was the widow of printer and publisher Thomas Cooper, whose business she continued. Thomas Cooper had published a reading guide in 1742, The Child's New Play-thing, and his wife published an edition of it after his death. Active from 1743 to 1761, she is notable especially for publishing Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book (1744), "the first known collection of English nursery rhymes in print". Cooper collected the rhymes, each of which had a companion woodcut, and later critics have remarked that "Cooper's ear for a good jingle was unerring".

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Paternoster Row in the context of Paternoster Square

Paternoster Square is a former historic square, renamed from Newgate Market c. 1872, and now a post-war urban redevelopment next to St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London. The area was previously named Paternoster Row, after the street of the same name, once centre of the London publishing trade and was devastated by aerial bombardment in The Blitz during World War II. It is now the location of the London Stock Exchange which relocated there from Threadneedle Street in 2004. It is also the location of investment banks such as Goldman Sachs, Merrill and Nomura Securities, and of fund manager Fidelity Investments. The square itself, i.e. the plaza, is privately owned public space. In 2004, Christopher Wren's 1669 Temple Bar Gate was re-erected here as an entrance way to the plaza.

The square is near the top of a modest rise known as Ludgate Hill, formerly one of the two highest points in the City of London. It is characterised by its pedestrianisation and colonnades.

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Paternoster Row in the context of St Paul's Churchyard

St Paul's Churchyard is an area immediately around St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London. Historically it included St Paul's Cross and Paternoster Row. It became one of the principal marketplaces in London. St Paul's Cross was an open-air pulpit from which many of the most important statements on the political and religious changes brought by the Reformation were made public during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Only one execution is recorded as taking place in St Paul's Churchyard; that of clergyman Henry Garnet, one of those found guilty of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot. As of 2024 the alley to the north of the cathedral grounds is named St Paul's Churchyard.

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