Hannah Allen

Hannah Allen [nee Howse; she was also married to a Mr. Chapman at one time] (fl. 1632 -64) married Benjamin Allen (d. 1646) in 1632; she continued her husband's business as a bookseller after his death. The Allens were sympathetic to the Baptists and Independents, and the Millenarians, though Hannah was raised an Anglican. She later married her apprentice, Livewell Chapman, in 1651. Between 1646 and 1651 she printed numerous  Puritan divines, but also increasingly Fifth Monarchist writers, such as William Cradock, Henry Jessey, and Vavasor Powell, as well as Thomas Manton, Thomas Brooks, and other Calvinist divines. She knew Anna Trapnel, one of the woman prophetesses speaking and writing among the Baptists at that time.