[2] She was employed as a bookkeeper in Chicago at the office of the financial broker Richard Coe Allen, where she met Frederic W. Goudy in 1890.

[5][6] The Village Press's first production was "Printing," an essay by William Morris and Emery Walker,[7] in keeping with the proprietors' dedication to Morris-style Arts and Crafts aesthetics and philosophy.

The final move of the press was in 1924, to Marlborough-on-Hudson, New York, to a house with an adjacent mill, which the Goudys called Deepdene.

Bertha Goudy was widely recognized during this period as the driving force behind the Village Press, and in 1933, Time magazine called her "the world's ablest woman printer.

"[9] The American Institute of Graphic Arts recognized her achievements alongside those of her husband's in an exhibition honoring the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the Village Press in 1933.