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Tace Sowle (1666-1749) was a printer and bookseller based in London. She was the main publisher of writing by English Quakers during the early eighteenth century.

Early Life
Tace Sowle was born 29 March 1666 at Pye Corner, Smithfiel, in London. Her mother and father, Andrew Sowle (1660-c.1695) and Jane Sowle (1631-1711), were the foremost printer to the Quakers in late seventeenth-century England. Tace was trained in the family printing and bookselling trade, as were her two sisters, Jane and Elizabath.

Tace was part of a family network of printer-publishers in England and North America. Tace's sister, Elizabeth (d.1731), married William Bradford (1663-1752), who had been apprenticed to Andrew in London. Andrew Sowle arranged for Elizabeth and William to emigrate to the new colony of Pennsylvania in 1685, where William Bradford became the colony's first printer.

Professional Career
Tace took over the family business in 1690 and officially took over her father's role of printer to the Society of Friends (Quakers) in 1691.