London Conclusion
London was the city best known for its creative and intellectual works, where most scholars sent their works to be accessible to the public. It also showed the acceptance and inclusiveness London had in regards to immigrants and women.
(Fig. 7a): Total City/Category/Genre Graph: London and (7b): Women’s contributions (Anisah Khan)
London’s print environment is by far the wealthiest, largest, and most diversified of the three cities. The numerical print majorities for each city in particular categories (i.e. the Literary category featuring predominantly in London’s print output) also point to particular historical and political trends occuring in those cities simultaneously. For example, London’s noticeably large presence in the Legal and Literary print categories could be indicative of a tie to the city’s role in booming global trade, and particularly the significance of printing in the commercial and literary spheres of trading.
Category/Genre
This type of data indicated that London was the city known for its literary works and was home to a community of people who were loyal to their religion. It also showed that London was a city known for its academia from the amount of instructional, references, scholarly work it put out into the public.
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Because London was focused on the literary and scientific works, its publishing industry in this city didn’t have a broad collection regarding marketing or speeches. Though, the city of London did contain a rich and diverse culture in their publishing history, which contributes to why there are is a plentiful amount of subgenres, ninety-eight exactly when counting all the subgenres from all the genres combined. This is due to London’s large population. A larger population allows the culture from international immigration to come through in London’s publishing and printing presses. It also allows diversity into the publishing community. Since most of London’s population consists of international immigrants.
Women's Contributions
Because London was culturally and financially dominant in the year of 1771, it gave women the opportunity to support themselves as writers. In fact, London was the city for women to make a living as writers and every genre was available to the female population, though novels, poetry, and plays were mostly published by London’s printing presses. The second figure gives a deeper look on the popularity of each category based on the print counts. Specifically, how it covers what types of subgenres were printed, and how many prints were counted. Since the London Sunburst is home to a plethora of sub-genres in amongst ten categories, there are certain types of works favored by London’s population of 760,000 people in the early 1770’s.
The importance behind the number of prints counted displayed by the bar graph is essential to understand the extent of each category’s popularity. It shows which categories from the first visualization had the most publications and London’s strengths as one of the largest publishers as well. Works in the literary category overwhelmingly take up most of the printing environment with sub-genres such as fiction, poetry, etc. Pieces such as Fiction are being printed twenty-eight times, followed by plays with a count of seven, and lastly poems that were counted up to four times. The sub-genres are what make up each category, and in the literary category, according to the bar graph, is the category with the greatest number of subgenres that take up the printing process. As seen in figure one, the literary category, amongst the legal, religious categories make up the foundation of publishing. Primary literature since London’s publishing community is quite inclusive, women made up most of the literary categories as opposed to the legal and religious categories since they were strongly represented in that particular category.