Background
Agnes Campbell was the daughter of Isobel Orr and James Campbell. Her father was a merchant in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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She was baptized on 1 September 1637. Agnes Campbell married printer Andrew Anderson in 1656. In 1663, Anderson became printer to the Edinburgh Town Council, and in 1671, he was named King"s Printer for Scotland.
Agnes Campbell remarried in 1681.
She was Daniel Defoe"s Scottish printer, and published a folio edition of his poem "Caledonia."
In 1709, she launched a paper mill at Penicuik, the first paper mill on the River Esk.
