There are indications that her name was Elizabeth Bryant up to 24 April 1766 when she married Francis Newbery in the City of London.

That partnership ended and her husband created his own successful printing business at 20 Ludgate Street.

[1] Some accounts have assumed that Elizabeth's role was minor but she ran the business for 22 years.

At a time when children's book were becoming fashionable her business published 300 titles for juveniles and three quarters of them had her imprint.

[3] The engraver Thomas Bewick was employed by Newbery to illustrate Arnaud Berquin's Looking-Glass for the Mind in 1792 and John Huddlestone Wynne's 'Tales for Youth: In Thirty Poems' in 1794.