Martha Gurney (1733–1816) was an English printer, bookseller and publisher, known as an abolitionist activist.
Her brother Joseph being a shorthand writer, she in partnership with him, from 1773, produced a long series of trial books.
[5] In 1794, Gurney joined other radical publishers (Daniel Isaac Eaton, Joseph Johnson, James Ridgway and Robert Westley) in producing a new edition of Benjamin Franklin's Information to Those who would Remove to America.
[7] Fox's pamphlet of the early 1790s against sugar and rum from the triangular trade was published and promoted by Gurney, and sold eventually hundreds of thousands of copies, in 26 editions.
Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography, "Printing Abolition: How the Fight to Ban the British Slave Trade Was Won, 1783–1807.