[1][2] Her husband was arrested on suspicion of involvement in an armed uprising and she served a week long and a six month sentence for selling newspapers without paying the required tax.

James and Alice's book shop in Briggate appeared "to be the head quarters of sedition in this town" according to the Leeds Intelligencer.

[2] In 1833 she published an edition of Catechism of the Society for Promoting National Regeneration which aspired "to remove ... the social and commercial evils now existing".

[8] At the trial Mann declined to pay a reduced fine and escape prison if she ceased book-selling, saying she "had no other mode of maintaining her family".

[1] Mann belonged to a network of radical printers and booksellers, notably Abel Heywood of Manchester and William Strange of London.