Elisabeth Pickering (c. 1510–1562) was an English printer, the first woman in England to print books under her own family name.
[1] Elisabeth Pickering is reputed by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography to being the first English woman to print books under her birth name; James Raven asserts that "as early as 1527-8 a widow is recorded as printing in York", and terms Pickering as 'the best-known early press woman'.
[1] Elisabeth Pickering was married four times; to a Mr. Jackson, with issue Lucy and Elizabeth, prior to her marriage in 1537[2] to Redman, with issue Alice and Matilda.
After Redman's death she married William Cholmeley, a lawyer who may, according to the ODNB have been involved in a 1542 attempt by the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers to be incorporated in London.
After William's death she married his relation Ranulph Cholmeley, who from 1553 to 1563 was Recorder of London and thereafter Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.